week 6

This is Beckham promoting health to all those people that don't bathe. It not so hard.

This week was so great! I love my new son, and my new computer. As for WHAT I am learning, well I learned the hard way that I need to read my health promotion book, and keep up with the class. In addition I found out that I hate true/false questions. I always thought that they were good because they gave you a fifty/fifty chance, but no. I think that I lost the most points on that test because of those questions. Also we went to the school again this week for the service-learning project. That is about 12 hours of teaching at the school with two more visits scheduled.

SO WHAT? Well this means that I am almost done with the service-learning project!! That is a big step. I remember at the beginning of the semester I looked at the criteria for this project and cried (in my mind of course). But now it is almost done! This means also that my group and I can start on the paper soon and be done with it all in just a little bit. (Maybe once we finish it all then I wont have to blog about so much?)

NOW WHAT? Well I am slowly seeing the effect that we are having on these kids. This week one of the kids looked up at me with a disclosing tablet in his mouth and said, while drooling pink drool, “Doug, I want to be a nurse just like you.” It was touching and a little funny. But it made me realize that these kids are learning what we are teaching AND they are watching all the things that we do. Before we leave the class we teach the kids that we are promoting health so that they need to take the next step and promote these principles to others. This is so that we can extend the ripple effect and reach the most people possible.