The one time I was able to help someone is when I mentor a student at a local elementary school. When I am with the student, I am helping her out but in reality she’s helping me out so much more. I've done the mentoring program now for around five years. For the past four years I've had the same student and we have grown very close. She is from Hawaii, so she did not know very many people when she moved here. When I first met her she was very shy and she kept to herself. Most of the hour we spent together was spent in silence. At first I thought that I was not good at mentoring because she never talked and we seemed to get very little done. The whole first year that we were together she probably said five things to me. When I would come get
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I noticed that she was more outgoing this year. She told me that a little girl moved in the side her house. They had become best friends in they were in the same class this year. I was so excited for her because I knew that that little girl helped her so much. She also told me that over the summer her dad left. She told me that her dad was really mean to her and her mom. Also, she told me that he’s times and when he does they get very afraid. I was able to sit down with the men touring supervisor and talk to her about this little girl. The three of us had A meeting and decided that it would be best that the little girl alone talk to the counselor about it. The counselor called her mom and set up appointment With her mom to talk about her options. Whenever accounts or talk to her mother her mother got very upset. Within a few weeks the dad had moved back home, And the little girl got very quite again. I knew that there wasn’t much that I can do you at that point to help her besides to be there for her. I made sure to be there every week for the rest of that year because I didn’t know what was going to happen. Some weeks she seems semi-normal and the other weeks she was very sad and tired. That is the hardest thing that you have to do is watch a child go through something like that knowing that it’s nothing you can do about it. I have done everything that I could do to inform people about what is
I noticed that she was more outgoing this year. She told me that a little girl moved in the side her house. They had become best friends in they were in the same class this year. I was so excited for her because I knew that that little girl helped her so much. She also told me that over the summer her dad left. She told me that her dad was really mean to her and her mom. Also, she told me that he’s times and when he does they get very afraid. I was able to sit down with the men touring supervisor and talk to her about this little girl. The three of us had A meeting and decided that it would be best that the little girl alone talk to the counselor about it. The counselor called her mom and set up appointment With her mom to talk about her options. Whenever accounts or talk to her mother her mother got very upset. Within a few weeks the dad had moved back home, And the little girl got very quite again. I knew that there wasn’t much that I can do you at that point to help her besides to be there for her. I made sure to be there every week for the rest of that year because I didn’t know what was going to happen. Some weeks she seems semi-normal and the other weeks she was very sad and tired. That is the hardest thing that you have to do is watch a child go through something like that knowing that it’s nothing you can do about it. I have done everything that I could do to inform people about what is