My Practicum Experience: My Journey To The Aphorism

Firstly, I would like to say about my practicum experience done at the YMCA is that I am enormously grateful for the opportunity. Nearly a decade ago, I decided to pursue my lifelong dream of getting a degree and finding a more meaningful career, one that would complement my pursuit to live a more purposeful life. My route to this point in my education has been an arduous journey at times, however, it has been the most substantial, rewarding, and revealing endeavor that I have commenced thus far. As a matter of fact, it was at the Reading YMCA, where I was living as an SRO after I had completed the partial confinement requirements of DUI court, when I decided to investigate the possibility of obtaining a higher education. Consequently, when I divulged this to my support team, it was pointed out to me that I have as the aphorism says, “come full circle”, and I did not fully realize the extent of this until later. For instance, during my practicum interview, I was asked fist if I planned to disclose this, or be uncomfortable if this would be elicited by random circumstance, and how I would handle that. My response to this was that I was taught Kate Appleman of …show more content…
Which means that I must curb my natural inclination to want to please people, and manage to use appropriate candor when it is necessary tell them things that they may resist, all the while maintaining spontaneity and genuineness. Therefore, when Jami Geist, Housing Director for the YMCA of Reading-Berks County delineated that my role would be a passive one, it was made clear I would be there only in a learning capacity, and would for the large part, there only as an observer, part of me was relieved certainly. Yet, another part of me yearned to know the feeling of what it would be like to have her trust my judgement and allow me the chance to practice something more