The end of summer is near as school will start on wednesday for me. I can't believe summer ended so fast. It felt like last week when i had just finished all of my finals. So, senior year. What sort of surprises and challenges will be thrown at me? Will I make the right choices? All i know is that i must get organized. I'm pretty curious of what this upcoming year will bring me.
This past Tuesday I finished my last day of being a leader of freshmen orientation. Monday and Tuesday consisted of meeting a number of incoming freshmen who had the maturity level of...well, incoming freshmen. These were the kids who were obnoxious, thought they were much cooler than us, and some were brat to the max. The purpose of those two days for me as a leader was to have fun and make adjusting to highschool easier for the freshies. The amount of energy that was required for this was crazy. You could not believe how fast i was drained on just the first day of orientation. I was completely worn.
My partner and I directed our smallgroup through a lot of games and group discussions. For most of the part, the games and discussions were done well, except when the kids asked us, “What’s the point of all this?”. That ticked me off a little. We ended the day with a tour around the school campus and snacks which my partner and I had brought from home. My kids were cool and i liked them. Sure I got some attitude, but it only lasted for a short time. At the end of hte day, I was beat and just glad that the whole fricken thing was over. But the two days i had spent with the kids made me think whether or not I had impacted them. Did they understand the meanings behind the games that were meant to make their highschool lives easier? Will they remember me in a few years? Maybe. But I'll never know.
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