Until next time…
XOXO Service Girl
Friday, September 30, 2011
Will work for...a bus ride!
When I walked in today, it seemed like a typical Friday at the Boys & Girls Club but within ten minutes it became even better because not a single kid had any type of homework. There were also not any Learning Activity packets for the kids either, just coloring sheets! We all spent the first hour just coloring which was so relaxing for me after a hard week of college. Despite there being about ten other volunteers plus the staff I still had a group of five little girls coloring at my table. One of the little girls decided that she wanted to color her picture exactly like mine with the same crayon that I had used; she was so cute. Another little girl decided that she should get to tell me what color to color each item in the picture since I “clearly didn’t know anything” because I colored the pencils in the picture blue instead of yellow. After the coloring we went to the gym since it was too cold to go outside. The activity for the day was relays; these relays were way better than the ones from last week. This week there were three different relays. In the first one they had to bounce a ping pong ball on a paddle while weaving around cones once they got to the middle of the gym they did ten jumping jacks then crab walked to the other end up the gym where they sat on a floor scooter and scooted all the way back across the gym. The second one started with them dribbling a basketball around the cones then once they made it to the middle they jumped rope ten times and spun around on a baseball bat five times before skipping the rest of the way across the gym to the scooter so they could scooter back. The third one was really simple since they were all tired; they ran all the way across the gym then scootered back. I spent the rest of my time turning a jump rope for some girls then doing a coloring contest. I ended up running to crew practice again because the bus driver was talking on his phone and did not see me at the bus stop.
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I find your stories so entertaining. I think it’s primarily because I have enjoyed time with kids in the past have spent a bit of time a boys and girls clubs. I can just see the gears running in their little heads every time you write about them. By the way, I would agree with the little girl’s assessment, you must not be able to color if you made the pencils blue instead of yellow. Very entertaining. I think it’s cool how you can just spend time chilling with the kids. There is no grandiose scheme or anything. You’re just being there. You are being a big person who is interested in their little lives and that is what many of them need, interest, compassion, and just a little bit of guidance. I hope that your experience continues to go as well as it has so far and that perhaps the children may have as good of an effect on you as you are having on them.
ReplyDeleteYeah me too i think your stories are entertaining and spontaneous too. I wish my blogs were as exciting and colorful as yours are. I bet coloring is really relaxing. I might actually try it some time when I'm stressing out :) , and yes kids always know exactly where to color and what color to use. It's innate knowledge to them I feel haha . I love how innocent kids are until they grow up and realize how messed up the world actually is . it's kind of sad. But anyways Hope I read an even more interesting blog next week, and tell that bus driver to get off his phone next time
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