Journal Entry - Feb. 2nd

Class this week focused on being a good listener, and how important it was to really pay attention to what the person talking was saying, rather then just doodling little flowers, clouds and houses in your notebook. I don't speak from experience, honest. I actually had just come from an extremely hard mid-term and so it was good that what we talked about focused on paying attention even when you've got other things on your mind. It's important that I remember to leave home stuff at home and class stuff on campus and not let everything that goes on in life preoccupy me from doing the best I can as a mentor.

I decided to go ahead and keep what I had picked for my toolkit in my toolkit, which was the Mad Libs and the card trick. If you want to read it you can here (I do not have this blog listed as public, but people find them anyway, so if someone stumbles across this and needs activities to do with middle school students...there you go. I aim to please!). Hopefully it will help someone out. I might see if the student I end up working with wants to paint a shirt or something, I have a good two hundred tubes of fabric paint, and it would be cool to see someone put it to good use. Someone besides me, that is. It's just sad when I do it.

I contacted Stephens, so hopefully the school contact there gets back to me soon.