Sept 5th Blog 2-Mr. Experience

Starting my sophomore year in high school I began tutoring and mentoring a middle school student. It started out as any typical service experience. I was doing it for community service hours and didn't even know the kid until the first time I was to mentor him. He was a rising 6th grader. It was only supposed to last until the end of his 6th grade year. However the relationship that developed made it hard to just end it. I continued mentoring him until I saw him graduate from middle school at the same time I was graduating from high school. It ended up being a mutual relationship as both of us benefitted from each other. Although we were still a mentor status we became friends as well. I still talk to him and he still looks up to me even though we are hundreds of miles apart. One of the reasons I believe we became so close is that his family also grew to liking me. We met a few times as expected but they began to treat me as almost one of there own. They had me over for dinner, treated me to sporting tickets, and even got me a special christmas present. Although this kind of mentor relationship won't develop this far in just a semester I think that this experience will help me with this service experience in the sense of  getting to know the kid and how talk to them at first.