Service Learning

My service learning was a not really anything new to me but it was nice to finally work with some one who was willing to participate in what activities I had for them. My students name was Mike Stennis and is going to be a freshmen at Central High. His dream career is to be and actor.

The very first day my partner Ebony and I got a chance to get to know Mike and his personality was just great. We couldn't have asked for a better student. We worked on a collage with mike and right away he knew what photos and things he wanted on it. He had so many different ideas I thought we weren't going to be able to keep up. But in the end the poster came out looking just wonderful.

For the PowerPoint assignment, we gave him so much information on his career that he didn't how to take all of it. We gave him all the info we could on acting and he was just thrilled to know there are places out in the country where acting is supported very strongly.

The essay was so much fun. We had so much info that we couldn't figure out how to put it all in. so we grouped together all the ideas that sounded similar and created the outline. And I left the essay writing up to him on his own so he could show us that he can handle these assignments on his own.

the action plan assignment was pretty simple since he had all ready finished middle school all he needed was his high school career. Now Central is not the school he wants to go to but he still planned his career. And he ow knows what he will need to move on and get accepted into LSU.

The fact that Mike was so dedicated to acting was what motivated me to help him. It was a little challenging at first because we needed him to get out of the box and when he did he let his true self shine. I learned that people can be very dedicated to their dreams and will not let anyone or anything stand in their way, I realized this when he told me that he will try as hard as he can to accomplish his dreams. This has made a positive impact on me because even for someone like mike who has been through a lot of criticism he can still hold his head high and not let anyone put him down. It taught me to believe in yourself and not let people bring you down.

Mommy

What would you do if you had to wake up at 5 A.M everyday venture out into the woods and find fire wood? Well I do not know what i would do but this is what my mom had to go through as a little girl in El Salvador, and this is why I admire her.
My mom's name is Ana and she was born on a country call El Salvador located in central America. The reason i admire my mom is because she is a very string will person and she never let anyone or anything bring her down. She was left to take care of herself and her three other sisters at the age of 16. Since she was the oldest she was in charge, now she was not all on her own she did have my great-grandmother there but she wasn't much help. She always had to be up by 5 A.M. find fire word, grind the corn and hand make tortillas everyday, if she didn't well lets just say that great-grandma wasn't happy. My mom also lived through the Civil War. She experienced things many of us will not experience until we have our own. It always shocks me on how she lived through all of this. Later on my mom came to the U.S. she moved in with my grandma in Los Angeles, CA. She found herself a job cleaning homes and eventually met my dad and moved to Nebraska two years after i was born.
The reason i admire my mom so much is because i have never seen woman so determined to give her kids the best. My mom works the night shift at her job at a meat packing plant just so my siblings and i can go to school. She always tell us that no matter what to never let ourselves fall because there are people in this world that would kill to see us down on our luck. She has always been the kind of person that will be there for me no matter what.
These qualities will help me through my college experience because if i know that someone like her has made it through such bad time then maybe college is not as bad as i imagine.

resident life is having ramen parties at 1 a.m.

Resident life was a lot of fun for me. I got to experience what it was like to be away from home without the constant overprotection of my family. For once I let myself open up to new people who I am not used to being around. I loved it, it was one of the best experiences of my life. I couldn't have asked for better room mates.

At frist I was a little scared of being on my own and being far away from my family especially my mom, but after the first day I realized everything would be just fine. When I first arrived i thought to myself wow this place s a lilttle small but I eventually got used to it. I loved the fact that i finally had a room to myself, ok well no completely but hey have a bedroom where your thirteen year ols sister can't anoy you anymore was AWSOME!!! I really like when we did the team building exercise when we all had a disablity. I really got to some of my classmates a laot better that way.

The three people I will never forget are gonna be my room mates even thought we all were completly diffrent we always had fun. Like when I tried teach one of the how to dance to spanish music and the ramen parties at 1 a.m knowing we all had class early later on in the day. And even singing goodmorning every morning to the rest of the dorms at 7a.m. I will never forget this experience and how much it taught me about being a little more open to change and leave my parents protective bubble.

class

Hello my name is Laura. and i am part of the UNO summer scholars program. The course I'm taking is U.S history after the civil war and my professor's name is Dr. Mark. This class is in a lecture hall and the notes we take are based on what we think is important. The grade is for this class is based off of the three major exams the first being next week. the class requires that we read half a chapter to two chapters by the next day, yes it is a lot of reading but because we are in such a time crunch that is why we need this much reading.



My experience in the class so far has be fine. I do not think it is as bad as I thought it would be, the concepts are very simple and if you know what he is talking about and and keep up with the reading you will never be lost. The last chapter I just read was about conflicts and changes in the west after the civil war and how this effects the economy and life of the people.
I feel that the class has been great and the professor is a very good professor. He makes sure that we get down the right information and will take his time for us.

My class is a small group at least of 20 to 25 people. We do not ask many questions but when we need something clarified he will make sure we understand it. Class for me in the university feels a lot different than high school. I think that this challenge is good learning experience for me in the future. So far it has taught me to not be so timid in class and that I actually have to start thinking of things in more detail than before.