Reflection: My Service Experience At Emmanuel Christian Church

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I started my service on June 20, 2016, and still serving for Emmanuel Christian Church.
My main duty is teaching the Burmese language to Burmese children especially those who came to the United States long time ago and started to forget their own language. We have class twice a week on Monday and Wednesday from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM unless the church has some special events such as crusade and holiday. I studied what I am going to teach the next class, and I always prepared to start the classes on time. I am not only teaching the Burmese language, but also cleaning the church, cutting the grass, and providing the transportation for children because sometimes their parents cannot give them a ride due to their works. At the beginning, I did
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I find out the benefit of verbal communication with parents. As we learned the important of verbal communication in Communication course, it is vital to get in touch with other people and understand the circumstances one another. For instance, if I did not contact and talk to their parents, some of my students could not come to class and might end up being not coming for the next classes. In addition, we need to chat with others about any situation that we are encountering so that the solution will come up and the solve the …show more content…
As I mention in my initial reflection, my personal goal is to be patient as I worked with kids, and I believe that I accomplish it. My professional goal is to become a successful engineer. In order to become a successful engineer, I need to strengthen my top five strengths such as focus, futuristic, learner, achiever, and relator. First, I believe that this experience helped me gain my focus strength because I had to plan what I will teach the next day and always prepared for it. Second, as I hope to see my students improve their Burmese language that the end of the summer session, they really improved their language. Third, I learned that learning is the most crucial way to achieve my

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