Blog Post 1: First Week Impressions

My first week at Best Brains was quite a learning experience. I’ve worked with kids before, but being thrown into a situation where over 50 kids are coming per hour and are asking questions, throwing tissues on the floor, and/or screaming is quite overwhelming. It was a difficult transition, but now that it’s over I wouldn’t change it. Working and educating children requires one to be adaptive in all situations. That is a lesson I learned on my first day at Best Brains. One of my duties was to coordinate the summer camp program. I needed to balance the academic aspect of the camp and keep their motivation and spirits high. It isn’t until you sit in a room with 20 kids do you realize how short their attention spans are. But it was here that I realized that achieving my goal of understanding how to communicate wasn’t going to be easy; but also that it was a skill that I was going to have to master as soon as possible. But the kids were amazing, and I began to form connections with them. I look forward to the lessons that they are going to teach me. I also got the chance to get to know the teachers during the first week. At this time, the business only had 3 teachers. During some of our heart to heart moments I got a chance to learn about their life, and they taught me how to relate to the kids but also be a disciplinarian. I am excited to see what is going to come in the next several weeks. I hope that I get to continue learning from the people I’m surrounded by (regardless of their age), and hopefully I can impart some knowledge on those around me. After all, we are all interdependent!