Serving and Learning Together

For our service learning my partner Brazier and I choose to pick a student from the South Boys and Girls Club. We were giving a 13 year old girl named Alejandra. Right from the beginning she was very enthusiastic and willing to work with us. That day we scheduled to meet each other every Tuesday around two o'clock. Little did my partner and I realize what an experience we were about to be part of.

Our first project was the dream careers collage. At our arrival we didn't know much about Alejandra and the careers she was interested, so we brought a wide variety of magazines. I think the hardest part of the project was finding a career right for Alejandra. She narrowed down her choices to two different options, which was either a veteran or tattoo artist. Next we looked for pictures that had to do with the choices she made. Once we found a descent amount we glued all the pictures down on to the board. I thought this was cool because it had been a while since I got to use glue.

The next project was the exploring your dream careers, In my eyes this was most educational of all the projects. Before going to visit Alejandra, Brazier and I researched the career choices from our last visit. Later we made a power point out of our research. Once done we made our way to see Alejandra at the Boys and Girls Club. Unfortunately, the computers weren't working that day so we had to reschedule. The next day was a different story, we were able to present the power point. Alejandra's job was to pick one career she wanted to stick with, she picked tattoo artist.

I'm not going to lie the next project was the funnest thing in the world but either way we made it through. The task at hand was to make a Career essay. Previous to visiting Alejandra we constructed an outline to be later used. To motivate Alejandra we brought her some candy and after that she ready to go. The outline really helped out, all Alejandra had to do was type out the essay in her own words. In the end i was happy with her essay I couldn't have done it better myself.

Finlay the last project we did was the Action plan. This project had to do with everything that we had covered with Alejandra. First she completed the action plan worksheet, with some help from us. Next came typing the actual action plan on the computer. All though this was kind of time consuming it was all worth it and I believe Alejandra will benefit from it a great deal. When we were all done we gave Alejandra an invitation to the Summer Scholars banquet. We gave our final good byes to Alejandra and we left.

So, inclusion this was a great experience for both Alejandra and us. I learned a great deal from this like if you give a kid candy they will actually do their work. Another thing I learned was that it is never to late to start planning for college. I hope that Alejandra remembers what she learned from this experience and will use it in her future. Who knows maybe Alejandra will even be a future Summer Scholar.

The college I'm planning to attend

High school is a hard time full of problems where you have to make many choices. One of these problems I am facing is selecting a college I want to attend. As of right now I'm planning on attending UNO. I have always wanted to attend UNO since I was a freshman in high school and because my big sister attended UNO. I saw the success my sister had at that college and I too want to have that same success. Now in my junior year of high school I began to think about if UNO was really the right school for me. This all changed when I entered the summer scholars program and actually go to experience UNO class. Taking this class sealed the deal with me, I now knew that i really wanted to attend UNO.



Another reason that i wish to attend is because i want to become an engineer. UNO has a great an engineering program available. It has its own building dedicated just to different kinds of engineer. When i see that the school has its own building just for that field I see myself learning many things. Last fall i even got to be in a program for engineer, it was even held in The Durham school building. This is important to me because I take my career very important myself. I plan on majoring in construction engineering.



So in conclusion I have made my final decision on which college to attend, for the most part. There still is a quite amount of time left before I enter college but now I have at least an idea about what I'm going to do. It is the point in my life now where my choices will effect my future for years to come. I believe that i have made the right choice by picking UNO; now all that is left is to be admitted and graduate.

Residence life with summer scholars

I only have one word to describe living at Scott Hall, awesome. It is the first time that i live at away from home and my family. I must say that it is a very new experience for me, and with it came a varies amount of new responsibilities. To beign with i find myself having to pick up after myself because my mom is not here to do it for me. Belive it or not i now respect and admire my mom even more. When i first moved in I was egar to meet my roomates Pal and Josh.



"Yum whats that smell?" that is the first thing i said when I entered the cafateria. I remember as if it were yesturday; the first day i ate a hamburger with some french fries and of course coke. Lets not forget the desesrt, i had a chocolate cake. The best part was everything was free, the best price there is! The mojo hunt was our first activity, and to me it was pretty interesting. I got to learn where everything on campus is at and along the way we where taking pictures. My favorite picture hands down, literaly, was the one we took at the math building. Yeah so we took the picture while i was doing a hands stance, oh yeah.

While the ice cream social was going on we played texas hold em. The best part was that i won, on an all in bet. I also liked the ice-cream it was sweet and full of suger my favorite. Speaking about suger on movie night I ate so much suger I couldnt fall asleep. In all i enjoyed my weeks stay at scott hall. I think it will imprinted in my memory in way or another.

Keven out, Peace

The First Week

The first week of college was a whole new experiance. I noticed a big differance bettween high school and college. For example when switching from class to class you dont pass through hall ways but instead go from building to building. Speaking about traveling from class to class, the time bettween class periods is longer than in high school. Longer passing periods to me makes going to school funner because it is not as constricted like in high school.

Study group is the tightest period ever. If you ever have questions on homework or need help with a chapter you can recive help in your study group. I aslo get to practice my speechs in my study group to better prepare myself for the real thing. I have also meet new people and learned that south high's mascot is a cow not a bull. Meeting new people has made my enrollment in summer scholars alot more interesting.

What can i say about Dr. Robbinson More... Well she is the first teacher that i have ever had that has a Dr. in their title. She is a real nice person who is down to earth. I enjoy going to class every day just go see her.