Words From Grace

We are delighted to have a guest post by Grace Miller, a Westminster student who recently enrolled in the America Reads program. A few days a week she tutors at Nibley Park Elementary, which is a local k-8 school near campus. It's exciting that her tutoring has led to other service opprutnities within the school. Thanks Grace!

I have been working at Nibley Park School for a little over a month now and I absolutely love it. It used to be hard for me to keep a job longer than two weeks simply because it became routine and boring. But working at a school, there is always something new and different happening each time I go there.

I was able to help out with the Valentines Day dance which was exactly how they show in the movies! There was a disco ball and a table with punch and cake. Of course the boys were dancing on one half of the gym while the girls stood on the other half. They brought out glow sticks and made sure to switch between girl’s choice slow dances and boy’s choice. The painful awkwardness got a little intense sometimes and made me wonder how I ever made it though middle school. I can tell you how nice it is being on the other side now, and only being a witness of the overwhelming feelings.

Because the school is kindergarten through eighth grade, I get to work with both the little kids and the older ones. It is fun being able to remember back to when I was in first grade learning how to read chapter books and then being able to relate to the embarrassing feeling of knowing your crush found out you liked him.

Working at the elementary school is so amazing. My hope is to continue to work there until I graduate.

~edit by LR