User:Loganbuzzell/sandbox

Early Life Logan Buzzell was born at OSF in Peoria, IL, on May 1, 2001. His parents, Thomas and Tracy Buzzell, then took him home to Washington, IL. He lived in Washington until shortly after his third birthday. His father, Thomas, was then transferred by Caterpillar to work in Singapore. So Logan, his parents, and his older sister, CJ, moved to Singapore. Whilst living in Singapore, the Buzzells traveled to all around Asia. For awhile now my friends and family have been telling me to look into teaching, so I thought it only makes sense to pick that one to research. I feel this career choice showed up on my list for the same reason it comes up in conversation with my parents and peers. I love working with children, I am a volunteer coach at Bethel Lutheran School purely for the fact that I like being around the kids there. I have spent my last four summers working/volunteering at Camp CILCA helping them take care of campers. This helps with listening to problems and talking through them or finding a solution. After reading through the abilities, skills, knowledge, etc. I am starting to understand why this appears as a good occupational option for me. I was also given a more accurate salary range than I have been given in the past. They also came home in the summers to see their family and friends. Tracy would stay in America for about a month with the kids even though Thomas would have to travel back to Singapore for work before them.

School Logan started school in Asia at Singapore American School (SAS). He attended Pre-school, Pre-K, and half of Kindergarten there. Halfway through Kindergarten, Thomas was transferred back to Peoria. At this point, Logan and his sister started attending Christ Lutheran School. They both attended CLS until graduating in the 8th grade. After graduation, he moved on to East Peoria Community High School. He got through four years of that and decided to attend Illinois Community College.

Travel As mentioned earlier, the Buzzell family loves to travel. As a result that Logan has been to more than half of the states in America along with many exotic countries. When he was four years old his parents took him to Australia. He swam above the Great Barrier Reef, fed kangaroos, saw and fed dolphins, etc. They also traveled to other Asian countries such as Bali, Rawa, Indonesia, and China, where they hiked on the Great Wall. Most recently they took a trip to Belize when he was 18. They stayed in San Pedro and went open water fishing, he and his father went scuba diving, and the whole family had an opportunity to swim with nurse sharks. His sister opted to stay in the boat for that because there were quite a bit of sharks, some pushing 8-10 feet.

Work When he was 16 he took his sisters job at Subway. She wanted to quit in March, however her brother convinced her to stay until he turned 16. He worked at Subway for almost a year. He had no job the whole summer before senior year. During this time he spent his whole summer volunteering as a JC at Camp CILCA, a camp he had been attending since the summer before 7th grade. In August 2018, he was in a program at EPCHS called Co-op. This program allowed him to go to school for the first half of the day and then leave early and go to work. Through doing this program, he got a job working at ISI Building Products. ISI is a company owned by Meyers Enterprises where he works in the film division selling vapor barrier. He worked there from August 2018 to May 2019. He took a break to pursue a counselor job at Camp CILCA. He couldn’t work at camp before due to age, but now he was old enough to do more than volunteer a week at a time. After talking to his boss at ISI, he applied for the summer job at camp while keeping his job at ISI to return to when school started. He has been working at ISI from August 2019 to present day. He would have presumably done the same summer hiatus from ISI this past summer if Covid had not canceled the camp season.

Sports Throughout his childhood, he played many sports. In Singapore, he played T-ball and soccer. He continued to play soccer once he returned home. When he was 5 or 6, he started playing Biddy Basketball. The next year he switched from soccer to football. He played football, basketball, and baseball. After his 5th grade baseball season, he decided to focus on basketball and football until high school when he picked up tennis. He chose to play tennis in high school because of some tennis camps his parents put him and his sister in when they were young. Sophomore year of high school ended up being his last year of football. After playing quarterback for 8 years, he did not go back his junior year. He played basketball throughout all of high school for his church and still plays recreationally. He also played tennis for four years of high school.