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Someday in the future, when you need a caring nurse, Alexis Ramsey is the one you\u2019ll hope is nearby when you need her.<\/p>\n

You should see her in action as the president of the Cleveland High\u2019s \u201cBest Buddies\u201d club, the state\u2019s Chapter of the Year award-winner in 2016, from reading several announcements to scurrying around the cafeteria during a recent Best Buddies meeting, checking in on each and every special needs student there \u2014 including the use of sign language to communicate with one smiling girl.<\/p>\n

This CHS senior is going places \u2014 and, literally, going places is what she does every morning, driving in from her home in Ponderosa in the Jemez Mountains. She\u2019s involved with the Future Farmers of America \u2014 an officer, naturally, and the District 1 VP \u2014 and joined Best Buddies soon after transferring to CHS during her sophomore year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first transferred to Cleveland, I remember walking down the hallways and just seeing them smile \u2026 The Best Buddies room is right next to FFA, and so I\u2019d always be passing by them. \u2026 They\u2019re always smiling; they make your day,\u201d she recalled. \u201cSo I always try and go out of my way for people who don\u2019t know really what they\u2019re doing for other people. The Buddies don\u2019t know how well they make my life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese students don\u2019t make it a chore to give your time, you want to give your time,\u201d she said. \u201cI make time during my passing periods to go say \u2018hi\u2019 to them, go say \u2018good morning\u2019 to them \u2026 visit with them, just see how their day is going.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Jemez Valley (High School), I wanted something different, I wanted to see how it was to go to a bigger school, and how I would get along in a bigger school just to get myself used to college,\u201d Ramsey said. \u201cSo, halfway through my sophomore year, I made that decision to transfer from Jemez Valley High School, which was like 15 minutes from my house, all the way here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came from a school \u2014 in grades K-12, there was a total of 112 students \u2014 and this year my graduating class is, like, 550 students.\u201d That\u2019s only about 20 times greater than the JVHS Class of 2016, which she said would be about 28 students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do love the challenge. At Jemez Valley, I didn\u2019t really have to study much. I don\u2019t want to sound snotty, but I didn\u2019t have to try as much to get good grades,\u201d Ramsey said. \u201cHere, I feel like I earn them. I study harder; I work really hard to get the grades that I have, so that\u2019s a real challenge for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

As if studying, FFA and Best Buddies weren\u2019t enough to occupy this teen\u2019s time, she also volunteers at Loving Thunder Therapeutic Ranch in Rio Rancho, which caters to veterans and students with disabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started doing that in December,\u201d she said. \u201c(Best Buddies) got a grant last year and the first thing that we used our grant for was Loving Thunder. And so we took our students to Loving Thunder to get some lessons \u2014 it was just kind of like a field trip. We got them out to do horse-riding, they learned parts of the horse \u2014 it was really cool.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been around horses since I was little; riding is probably my favorite thing to do,\u201d she said. \u201cThat was really cool. (I thought), \u2018This is awesome; it fits some of what I know from FFA, it fits with what I know from my early childhood, and it also fits in with Best Buddies and disabilities.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018This is the best thing ever.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She plans to enroll at CNM in the fall to start working on her career plans as a nurse, and then transfer to UNM for her nurse-practitioner\u2019s license.<\/p>\n

Although Best Buddies stay busy with in-school activities, as well as outside-school events \u2014 the \u201cunified\u201d events, which include basketball, bowling and track & field teams \u2014 this year\u2019s focus is on \u201closing\u201d the hated \u201cR word.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, 800 CHS students signed a giant banner, pledging to stop using it.<\/p>\n

CHS teachers David Holland and Ben Vigil \u201ctag team\u201d as sponsors and advisors when ti comes to Best Buddies and unified activities, Ramsey said. Vigil said there are 65 CHS students involved in the unified sports program, happy that it has been growing in participation and success.<\/p>\n

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