Serving And Learning

These past four weeks have been so much fun. I've met more people than I every thought i would. Over these past five weeks, Markita and Me have been meeting with a young girl at the Boys and Girls Club. During our first meeting we got to know Breona and what her dreams were. She was very easy to talk to and didn't mind thinking more about her future.
At first we asked her what she wanted to be. Her response was a engineer and a basketball player. We tried to get her to think about other things but that's all we got,so we worked off that. It was fun making a collage with them and seeing Markita and I teach Breona more about education. this was just one of the great things that i learned from serving.
In our next activity with Breona we researched items to make her dreams come true. We looked for the criteria and courses she would need to take during her high school years. This made for a fun day and was something that made all of us the learners. I never realized how much it took to become a good basketball player or the different types of engineering. We also pin pointed that she wanted to be a Structural Engineer. If she stated now than I believe that Breona will know more than her classmates in her dreams.
During our third meeting we reviewed over the researched information and started writing a Career Essay. We had a lot to do at this meeting so we got busy right away.I think that her essay proved to be really good. Wwe managed to keep on topic and talked mostly about Basketball.
This was a challenge at first but than we figured that she wanted more to become an all-star basketball player more so that would be her essay. An outline was made than we decided to write it than type it. This was one day that made me feel like i was really helping someone with their dreams. We talked about what there was to do in high school and how she could make it to college level. Breona showed us that she was ready and willing to start playing on a team next year.
I hope that our last visit this week doesn't mean that Breona will forget about everything that we taught her but now give her a head start. Over these few meeting I know that from Markita and Breona I've learned even more, not just about things about education but also in the community and all the different areas I've never been. Like that there are young people that have better dreams than just staying at home and working at BK. More people need to teach our young people that they do have a place and affect on out world.