Katherine-Journal Entry August 11, 2020

During these weeks I decided to continue working on my skills as a leader and communicator. I did this by giving spanish classes to two kids of La Paz Community School. This experience was able to help me gain more experience as a teacher, since this is the career I'm interested in. This is why I decided to give my time to these kids and help them with their difficulties in spanish since I know how hard it is to learn a new language. This experience taught me to be patient since working with little kids is really difficult since it's hard for them to pay attention during a long period of time, this is why I used my creativity to create games where I could implement talking in spanish and learning new things such as colors and parts of our body. I as an IB student think that these types of experiences are important for the development of our skills and thoughts, I think this made me a better communicator and a more balanced person. Since I had to communicate with the parents of the kids to let them know what activities I was making with the kids to develop their second language, and at the same time communicate in an effective way with the students throughout the classes. In the same way I had to balance my time to be able to accomplish my schoolwork and the time I was giving to the students. I really appreciate the opportunity of helping these kids, since I was able to distract myself from the coronavirus situation and dedicate this time to them.