"Fate works in mysterious ways and everything happens for a reason." For the past two summers previous to this past summer, Michelle had attended orchestra tours that went to both Europe and China. These tours have always been what she looked forward to during the school year and so she decided to attend yet another tour for her upcoming summer. The tour was scheduled to go across Canada and all of her friends had signed up to attend it so Michelle was psyched. The tour turned out to be unsuccessful in gathering many people to sign up because numerous people were still afraid to travel after September 11th. The director of the tour tried to keep congregating people to enroll for the summer tour, but he was not capable of getting enough people, and unavoidably, the tour was canceled. Michelle was utterly disappointed and immediately gave up and figured that her summer was ruined. She figured she would just stay home and sulk in her misery until the summer came to an end.
             "Everything happens for a reason", Michele's mom told her. "There was a reason why you weren't supposed to go on this tour", she assured her daughter. Even though Michelle was usually a firm believer in these theories her mother was telling her, nothing was really going to alleviate her disappointment and frustration. Michelle pretty much gave up all hopes of finding something else to do over the summer, and just sat there and guaranteed herself that she was perfectly content with just stewing in her sadness and giving up. Until one day Michelle's mother was reading the New York Times and came across an advertisement for a summer program known as the New York Film Academy. It was acknowledged as a one-month summer program dealing with an intensive hands-on immersion into filmmaking and directing.
             Michelle's mom decided to show Michelle the ad even though she knew nothing would be satisfying to her daughter's depression and discontent. Michelle looked ...