Pretty dull week. I have a trip planned to Amsterdam in early March so I have been trying to get my work done before that. Admittedly, I haven't been able to leave my room or the library b/c of this and therefore I don't have anything fun to report. More visits to The Court (always a fun place to wind-down, however).
I've begun to accept the British style of teaching/writing/reading/studying and this has been exemplified in my papers. I know when I read the over again a year from now (for whatever reason) I'll question why I spelled "labor" as "labour."
Finally, my job as a student mentor ended. My two mentee's were great and I learned a lot from the process. As I mentioned in previous posts, the program was designed to help high school students expand their potentials and plan their future. A lot of what I did revolved around preparatory work for college and communication skills exercises. For example, one of my mentee's was very enthusiastic about America and wanted to know everything about it, but it was out of the realm of my duties to sit there ans talk to him about America. So I asked what interested him about the greatest country in the world and he replied, "the Illuminati." After shaking my head in disapproval and laughing a bit I took the discussion further and probed deeper. Eventually I found a project that interested him and increased his communication skills at the same time. I had him debate in on the merits of the Illuminati conspiracy theories and how certain secret societies may or may not run the world; he took the affirmative and I took the negative (naturally).
In the end, the experience was great and I hope I was able to make an impact on their lives, improve their study skills, and help them realize their potential.
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