Semester really over already!?

Holy cow, I cannot believe it’s the end of the semester already!  Where the heck did the time go!?  I’m ready to be done and go home to kind of relax.  I will be taking summer classes unfortunately, but hey it bumps my credits so that’s good.

Anyways I had a lot of fun in class on Wednesday.  Being able to ask the previous peer mentors some of the questions that had been on our minds was really helpful.  It kind of made me nervous though because I will be taking 17 credits next semester plus having a job on campus.  I can’t afford to drop a class in the middle of the semester after I realize I can’t handle it so maybe it will be beneficial if I take one of the classes out and take it in the spring.  Either way, my schedule is probably going to always be packed between now and graduation after I had just switched my major again just a month ago.  It just makes me nervous and I’d rather not stress myself out too much. 

The whole time in class I was just waiting in anticipation to find out who I was going to be a co-peer mentor with.  The puzzle activity that they had a do was a pretty neat idea, probably better than just reading out names off of a list.  I think I preferred the hands on part of it!  I’m so looking forward to being able to teach a class with Brady in the fall!! We are all going to do a great job, and this makes me even more excited to start in the fall! J  I’m also really looking forward to deciding what to do for the retreat, we are going to make it a good year guys!  

Peer Educators/Reading Article

Finished filming today guys good job!! I feel like we definitely hit that last minute mark on the project but I can’t wait to see the finished product on Wednesday in class! Oh, and we’ll get to see who we’re pared up with, soooo exciting!! J

Anyways, this past week Tanner and Brooke led our last class with us mentors teaching! Man did it fly by, good job guys we all did great!  This time we had pretty much tied everything all of us taught all together and it was a good review because I honestly forgot what we had covered a few months ago, I may or may not have short term memory loss haha.  We focused on the peer educators we have on campus and as a class we came up with a very decent amount!  Some of them I don’t even think about we just use it, does that make sense?  We have it so good here with how many leaders/peer educators we can go to if we need help, I’m very thankful for that.

We also then discussed the article we had to read.  I never really thought about how important personality went into the decision process of hiring someone.  I mean I work for my parents and when they had asked about people from high school that they could hire I always told them pick this person they’re really nice and responsible and blah dee blah but I guess I just wasn't aware that I was doing that at the time.  I would prefer to work with someone who I can get along with and have a good time and still be responsible and get my work done than someone who just makes work utterly terrible and is always one of those strict bosses.  I hope I can remember this for when I start interviewing for jobs and hopefully I’ll be the person they’re looking for!

Ethics

Hello guys!  Tonight we had the etiquette dinner and it was SOOOOO much fun!! If you didn’t go you really missed out on a good time, good food and plenty of good laughs (mainly at me but it was goodJ ).  I really do like these random opportunities for us peer mentors to get together and get the chance to bond outside of the classroom environment!

The question we were given to evaluate and discuss in our blog post this week is something that I hadn’t really thought of before.  Ethics is a very big issue with teaching others, and not crossing certain boundaries is very important.  The following five most important roles of ethics that are important for my role as a peer mentor would be:  

to know my limits (I don’t want to cross boundaries that I shouldn’t such as something with relationship problems), 

we talked a lot about emotional responses so that would be one too (be careful and aware of what emotion your giving off to others), 

don’t give advice to someone when you aren't really sure what advice you’re giving (suggest a person they could go to if they want to know more about something, if you don’t know what they need, it would help them more suggesting something else rather than steering them in the wrong direction),

be a responsible leader (these kids are going to look up to you, show them someone they can aspire to be), and lastly, respect all of the people around me (even though we may not agree on certain things you can still respect their opinion on whatever it may be). 

Alright guys that’s about it for the blog post about ethics.  I’m sure there are going to be many various scenarios that we are going to encounter in the fall and although it’s a scary thought that we’ll just be diving into it, it’s nice to know that we can always go talk to Chelsee or Allie if we ever need some help.  J

I hope you all have a safe and exciting VEISHEA!!! J