At school, I have an internship at Artix. I teach kids around the ages of 2-4 how to do art. Each week, we follow a different country and select a different art piece we have the kids mimic during the class time. During my internship, i work alongside 3 employees and another student at the post oak school. This has led to me interacting more with my community, and helped me alter my teaching skills to fit the needs of the 2-4 year olds learning styles. Aside from all of the teaching I was doing, I also needed to work on my organizational and cleaning skills, as I had to maintain a neat workspace and set up, break down for each class. I definitely learned how to work along all kinds of people, from toddlers to adults, and the skills I gained through this I utilize day to day. Although toddlers are hard to keep focused, the tricks I learned to keep them on track Im able to turn around and use for myself time to time.
Its sophomore year, and I see I was chosen to go to Jamaica for J term. I was so excited, yes Jamaica is a beautiful country, but I love doing community service work. In our first J term meeting, we discussed how as this was the first J term community-study trip, they would need volunteers to create the city study we would be doing. I volunteered, as I love anthropology. Throughout the next few weeks, I worked with the other 3 volunteers, and we brainstormed a topic for our city study. We were thinking about how we could get the most participants. One prevalent issue in Jamaica is violence related to political parties, so we decided to base our study off of that. We came up with an entire questionnaire we would then bring with us and ask the community.
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