It's crunch time for COM320. Next Thursday is when the B&G Clubbers are going to the Boys and Girls Club of greater Lafayette and completing our Service Learning Project. All of our work so far in the semester is boiling down to one day. It's stressful but also exciting. I have never worked with the Boys and Girls Club before, so this will be a new experience for me. The final preparations are coming along just fine. I'm nervous about how things will pan out on Thursday, though. The kids at the Boys and Girls Club are known for not wanting to go along with specific events that are planned for them. They usually pick up a basketball, head to the court, and spend all of their time there. I'm hoping we can motivate them to follow along with what we have planned for them because if they do, I think they'd really enjoy it. Being the only girl in the group, as well as the entire volunteer crew we're taking to the Boys and Girls Club, I feel like I might have to take on some sort of motherly role to motivate the kids to follow our lead.
Our group is planning on meeting at least one more time before Thursday to gather all supplies and finalize plans so we're fully prepared. I'm hoping everything keeps going as well as it has been. If it does, then this project should be fool proof.
Katie Spalding
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Interesting note about the "motherly role". What/why do you feel that way?
ReplyDeleteI just feel like I'm going to be put into that role and also when I'm around children, I tend to assume that role without being ask. I feel like I should be a caretaker whenever I'm in charge of taking care of children. Also, the guys say that they don't expect much structure to actually occur when we get there because the children have minds of their own, so I'm hoping that I can motivate the children to actually do what we've planned for them.
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