Never start with "A"
This year, we have gone where no seniors have gone before! Our whole class, all 19 of us, participated in two separate volunteer projects, instead of wasting our last two weeks of school falling asleep in class and engaging in general chit chat.
The Happy Campers relax in the teacher's dorm
Although these trips were meant to do the community good, it did our class bad. Because of the riff between some members of the class, we were forced to split into two groups. The part that upset me the most was the secrecy of the other group, hiding their "confidential" project from us like we were never in the same class for four years. I truly regret the fission between our class that will perhaps never mend.
The aftermath of Typhoon Morakot
Pig for dinner, anyone?
Our group decided to teach English to Kindergarteners, first, and second graders at Sing-Chung Elementary School in the mountains of Kaohsiung county. The actual planning was difficult. Everything had to start from scratch. None of us had experience with teaching children, so we were at a lost, but with the help of KAS' pre-K teacher, we planned a week's worth of lessons, consisting of teaching easy vocabulary through children's books.
The intrepid 1st grade teachers - Jonathan, Melissa, me
There were a million other things that needed to be planned- where are we going to stay, what were we going to eat everyday, and the ultimate question: would the kids like us? *grimace* Piece by piece, these concerns all fell into place.
I think they like us just fine (:
People say that the planning sometimes IS the trip. The PTA didn't think we could do it, neither could some parents, but we proved to them that a group of teenagers can be as, if not more, efficient and productive as a group of adults. The planning of this trip was hard, but the gains definitely outweighed the costs.
The Happy Campers relax in the teacher's dorm
Although these trips were meant to do the community good, it did our class bad. Because of the riff between some members of the class, we were forced to split into two groups. The part that upset me the most was the secrecy of the other group, hiding their "confidential" project from us like we were never in the same class for four years. I truly regret the fission between our class that will perhaps never mend.
The aftermath of Typhoon Morakot
Pig for dinner, anyone?
Our group decided to teach English to Kindergarteners, first, and second graders at Sing-Chung Elementary School in the mountains of Kaohsiung county. The actual planning was difficult. Everything had to start from scratch. None of us had experience with teaching children, so we were at a lost, but with the help of KAS' pre-K teacher, we planned a week's worth of lessons, consisting of teaching easy vocabulary through children's books.
The intrepid 1st grade teachers - Jonathan, Melissa, me
There were a million other things that needed to be planned- where are we going to stay, what were we going to eat everyday, and the ultimate question: would the kids like us? *grimace* Piece by piece, these concerns all fell into place.
I think they like us just fine (:
People say that the planning sometimes IS the trip. The PTA didn't think we could do it, neither could some parents, but we proved to them that a group of teenagers can be as, if not more, efficient and productive as a group of adults. The planning of this trip was hard, but the gains definitely outweighed the costs.
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