Service Learning Experience Essay

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This is my second time to do service learning at this medium church, Mount Hope United Methodist Church. The church itself locates at the corner of East Mount Hope Avenue cross with South Cedar St. My role here stills same that every Wednesday I have to tutoring one on one with kids and eating a meal with them. However, this time I have to work with new youth coordinator Mrs. Benth St. John as previous youth coordinator Mrs. Colleen Treman has retried. Mrs. Benth is very kind and friendly person; my colleague and me have a great time with her.
It has many reasons why I chose to come here again. Firstly, I already know some stuff about this church. Secondly, this place also the place where I learn the feeling of becomes a giver, and the feeling of willing to help other. I do carry these attitudes with me everywhere I go. So that when I go back to my hometown in Thailand, I had a chance to teach disabled kids, and that it is a great experience for me. Generally speaking, this time I have more confident in myself as a tutor compare to the first time I be here. The reason behind this was I had gained some experience from my previous service learning at here, and from the Bangkok school of Blinds. For example, last time when I face a problem during my tutoring I become a panic person because I don’t know what I need to do. This time I also face a problem but instead of panic I made myself more clam and always think how I am going to solve this problem. It likes you play sports, more time you spend more time you become better. Majority of these kids are the member of an immigrant family from Africa. As an effect of poverty it forces their parent to come to United States. Their parents believe that they can find an opportunity to make their family life become better over here. Due to this fact, it made we both have something in common, we both are international students. Without saying we both know that it not an easy to adapt into a new culture, especially when the culture is very different from your own. Even though we both are international students, we also come from different country, and different culture. These kids are African while I’m Thai. The language is one of issue that I have to face when I work here. As I mentioned that most of them are from Africa so English is not the primary language for them. Due to this fact, it made most kids have a hard time with language, and some of them don’t use English fluently. So it makes me find a hard time to deal with his/her every time I need them in subject that need a specific words like Sciences subject. It makes me thinking many time inside my head how I am going to solve this issue because I want to pass knowledge to these kid efficiently, I want to make them become better. On the other hand, I had
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In this article it mentions some interesting facts.it says that service learning has an impact on student in various aspect areas like critical thinking, moral development, leadership skill, and civic responsibility.
No doubt, working with these kid make me need to be more critical thinking person in order to find a various ways to teach my fellow students, as individual student is different from another. It’s impossible that you can teach every kid in a same pattern. Some kid you will find it very easy to teach whatever you tell them, they can understand in the first time. In the other hand, you will also find another kid that you need to repeat concept many time, and him/her still doesn’t understand it.
In the end, I would say that I am feeling thankful to my decision for being a part of service learning program. This program gives me an opportunity to pass my knowledge to someone, and make someone life becomes better, like teaching this immigrant kids. Further, it also give me a new perspective of being a tutor that it not a boring job as I always think instead it quite an interesting and fun thing to

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