Hello there friends!
It has been a very long time since I last wrote. I apologize for that but I have been so busy that my free time is usually spent reading or sleeping! A lot has happened in the last few weeks so let me catch you up!
I have been going through YV training, which due to unforeseen circumstances went longer than normal. (Snow and ice being the biggest culprit obviously) We made it through, I am fully trained and on top of that I have been assigned my group of students! I am really excited to be working with them. I will be a math and literacy tutor which is what I am good at, I am sitting in at a comfortable optimism (with lots of realist ideals behind it) that I will be helping them out a little bit in the long run.
I know for a fact that I will be gaining more from them though. I sit and think about all of the students in the past that I have worked with, difficult and pleasantly easy and these students are nothing like any of them. I will hopefully be better equipped in the long run to help students of all levels succeed in a classroom setting and I am already excited at seeing progress from students that my fellow AmeriCorps tutor in the short time that I have been here.
Which brings me to AmeriCorps. Service has always been apart of my life, at Jessup it was a requirement that some people grumbled about, but I actually appreciated the importance of it. Now, I am allowed to live a season of my life dedicated to service, no matter what it is.
A few weeks ago GEMA mobilized us to help in parts of Georgia that got hit by the ice storm and going out to a small community and helping out a few families removed the debris in their yards was amazing. The thankfulness of the group we joined with that we came and helped them was immeasurable and as a team we laughed and worked hard. It's a wonderful thing.
This last week my team went down to Jekyll Island where we partnered with another AmeriCorps team and we did a huge service project with them. We split into 4 teams of 10 and busted out a bunch of projects that needed to get done on their end.
My team camped at the camp ground, and despite the colder weather we survived and I think that the people who had never camped enjoyed their time.
It has been a very long time since I last wrote. I apologize for that but I have been so busy that my free time is usually spent reading or sleeping! A lot has happened in the last few weeks so let me catch you up!
I have been going through YV training, which due to unforeseen circumstances went longer than normal. (Snow and ice being the biggest culprit obviously) We made it through, I am fully trained and on top of that I have been assigned my group of students! I am really excited to be working with them. I will be a math and literacy tutor which is what I am good at, I am sitting in at a comfortable optimism (with lots of realist ideals behind it) that I will be helping them out a little bit in the long run.
I know for a fact that I will be gaining more from them though. I sit and think about all of the students in the past that I have worked with, difficult and pleasantly easy and these students are nothing like any of them. I will hopefully be better equipped in the long run to help students of all levels succeed in a classroom setting and I am already excited at seeing progress from students that my fellow AmeriCorps tutor in the short time that I have been here.
Which brings me to AmeriCorps. Service has always been apart of my life, at Jessup it was a requirement that some people grumbled about, but I actually appreciated the importance of it. Now, I am allowed to live a season of my life dedicated to service, no matter what it is.
A few weeks ago GEMA mobilized us to help in parts of Georgia that got hit by the ice storm and going out to a small community and helping out a few families removed the debris in their yards was amazing. The thankfulness of the group we joined with that we came and helped them was immeasurable and as a team we laughed and worked hard. It's a wonderful thing.
This last week my team went down to Jekyll Island where we partnered with another AmeriCorps team and we did a huge service project with them. We split into 4 teams of 10 and busted out a bunch of projects that needed to get done on their end.
My team camped at the camp ground, and despite the colder weather we survived and I think that the people who had never camped enjoyed their time.
Yesterday was just filled with lots of good things for me. Since we had the retreat this past week we were given yesterday off. I figured it would just be a pleasant day, mostly reading but it became much more than that. I got a package from Katie. Zach got my package that I sent him. I joined a rock climbing gym that my new friend Erin from AmeriCorps is apart of (YAY ROCK CLIMBING!) I made falafel I made plans to catch up with my friend Safi, Haley and I got a text from Kyle about catching up next week on the phone. So many good things. I love touching base with those I do not get to see very often because it shows that despite the distance we have taken the time to say that we are thinking about them.
Monday starts my first full week doing the service that I signed up for, Wish me luck!
I hope that you dear friend who is reading this know that I think about you often. I wish you the best of luck and lots of joy between now and the next time I write.
I hope that you dear friend who is reading this know that I think about you often. I wish you the best of luck and lots of joy between now and the next time I write.
As always,
Love and Hugs
Love and Hugs
-Kylie
