I can't believe that the first year of college is coming to an end. The time flew by but also went by super slowly at the same. I could go on forever given my first impressions on this year as a whole but I won't. I will say though that I will miss this class. I will miss seeing all of your beautiful faces. I will miss the frequent roasting and how annoying you guys were (lol jk…) It's crazy to think that we won't be in class together anymore.
On the note of service learning, I will admit that as I was deciding which first year writing class to take, I was hesitant about this course because I did not know how time consuming the service learning would be. I did not want to be stretched far beyond my capacity and I feared that the service learning would do that. However, I was willing to take the leap of faith considering how great the RateMyProfessor reviews on Stockman were, so I signed up. Although I was somewhat dreading the time commitment, I was really hoping to get to work with youth because I love working with kids. When I was told that we were being stationed with high school kids in O'Bryant, I was excited!! Not only was I being given the chance to tutor students, but I was given an opportunity to get a weekly break from Northeastern to work at a school that reminded me more of my high school back home (which was nostalgic). The only downfall I saw at that point was tutoring in English. I was confused as to how I would assist high schoolers writing essays when I still did not know how to even do that myself. As the weeks went by, and I realized how to be of service to the kids, it ended up being much better than I anticipated. Each week felt less nerve racking, and I started to feel more familiar with the process of getting into conversation with the students in the attempt of helping them. Looking back at the whole experience, I would not trade it for anything (expect maybe 3 billion dollars). I really felt as if the greatest take away was just learning about life from the perspective of other people. I loved knowing that I could be a sponsor of literacy (eou) for other students and it made me really intentional about how I was behaving around them. I wanted to instill hope that they could achieve everything that they set their minds to. I really really really loved working at O'Bryant and am so grateful to have had this experience.
Love you all, goodnight America and farewell Blogger.
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