Boys and Girls Club

Just a quick note, i have to go to a meeting in about 5 minutes. Just wanted to say a word about my team's day project yesterday.
I was excited to work at a boys and girls club. I've done a lot of volunteer work that is similar, of course. Like the literacy thing i did in college a couple times, for one example. It was helping kids with their homework then playing with them. But unfortunately, it wasn't well organized. I think there was a lot of work to do, but they weren't prepared for us, so they didn't have enough tasks to fill our time. And while most people would be excited to have more free time in their work day, we're Americorps, we're here to work, and we like to work hard. So it was frustrating, and a slow start. And we weren't given a lot of information or direction, just told to play with the kids. But the kids were cute. Surprisingly will spoken, a lot of them had really strong language skills, well beyond their years i thought.
In the end, it was a good day of work, despite the slow start. And my TL said that it was good for us because it gave us a taste for the kind of patience we need to have, because things aren't always going to go as planned. Flexibility! that's our middle name.

Must run!