McAuliffe for Life!!!

So we’ve started serving in our schools this week. Well, learning and observing, but still interacting with the kids! They have a Mariachi band at this school and a journalism class. I’m most definitely doing to start a creative writing class… prolly focusing on poetry/song writing. The team seems to be settling into what we’ll be doing this year. We went there Wednesday and today. Kids remembered me from yesterday, which was awesome!! Yesterday we got acclimated to the school, learned about the FitnessGram we’ll be in charge of administering to all the students in the school, and played outside with the special ed class. Today we observed teachers that have good report with their students to get a perspective on how to create that with our tutees and mentees. We joined in on the PE class, which we’ll be doing a lot, especially before the FitnessGram. We stayed after today and went to an 8th grade girls’ Volleyball game (I thought of Sarah the whole time). They won! I’m taking it easy tonight cause the whole Corps is getting up bright an early to go to a Habitat for Humanity build tomorrow. I’m so excited for the weekend. I need to hang out with all my friends cause this week has kept us all busy and tired. I can’t believe we’ll actually be working so much. Roughly 55 hour weeks for the next ten months. And that doesn’t count the times we have blacked out days on the weekend. Apparently around MLK Jr Day we’ll be working everyday for two weeks straight… yikes. I can’t imagine people do that at jobs their not passionate about. This is amazing! If you haven’t gotten this already, I’m in love with City Year and San Antonio and McAuliffe Middle School and everything about this choice I made. The End.