Day Number One: 12th Grade Service Project

Today was my first day at my service site, Saint Therese School in Aurora. I have been assigned to Mrs. Sue McPeek's third grade class. I was a little bit nervous before the class began as to whether or not my entire service project experience would be a positive one. Last year I worked at a daycare center called United Cerebral Palsy: Creative Options. I worked primarily with a classroom of five-year-olds. It took a while for those five-year-olds to form a level of emotional comfort with me so that they and I could get the most out of my service project. This sense of comfort came almost immediately today, I believe the reason for this is the fact that the students were older and are in more of an actual classroom environment. It was very easy to help the third graders and interact with them in a variety of ways today. I actually think that I learned many of their names already, an important step. I attended Saint Therese in sixth grade, before my family moved to Texas in seventh grade, and being there again brought back many memories that had shifted out of my consciousness. Hopefully tomorrow will be just as productive of a day, as after I was with the third graders from eight to three, I helped in the afterschool program from three to six.