I didn’t know back then I would come the tremendously frightening and honoring understanding of how much I could influence a young person’s life. In our town there is a youth football program we have come to know as “Cadiz Biddy Football.” They start in August and play four teams two times each, then go into playoffs to see who gets to compete in the “Superbowl”. Along with the football program is a cheerleading program.
1. As a young Fire Control Technician Third Class (FT3), I served under Fire Control Technician Chief (FTC) Chuck Thompson. Strong and proud, he stood like a massive oak tree in every room he entered; his mere presence demanded respect.
It happened on June 11, 2015. My lacrosse team won our regional quarter final game the previous day—I scored my personal best of five goals and was named Player of the Game. As a reward for the win, my coach gave us a three hour practice the next day that was strictly conditioning—leaving the seniors 30 minutes to go home, shower, change, and drive to our Senior Dinner at Bowdoin College. I raced home from practice, my sweat sticking to the car leather seats, music blasting, and the wind in my hair. I had the future on my mind: playoffs, graduation, summer, and college.
Hong!!! The sound of the horn blows in my ear as the final second’s ticks off the clock. Looking up at the score board with anger in my eyes and sweat glistening upon my face. Standing in the middle of the field with my helmet dangling in my right hand, I watch as the other team cheer with laughter, hand shacks, and an over whelming victory. I will never able to put my trust in any coaches.
When I first started my job at Bob Evans, I thought I’d be shy and stay to myself. I didn’t imagine speaking to and making friends with of the servers, hosts, or dish tank operators. I was more like Shrek, I didn’t want people coming in my life. I didn’t want to annoy anyone or let them figure me out. However, I started to slowly peel back the layers of myself to others starting with what the book called the peripheral layer (page 59).
Examples of this through the year have included running an icon tour during O-Week which involved visiting old and new parliament house to organising a race night during bush week. In addition to this I have also been involved in supporting and attending events throughout the year which range from social night to mixed netball games. Using specific examples of when you have worked in a team (in your work, studies and/or extra-curricular activities), explain how you operate as an effective team
Isabella, one of the most lively young girls I have ever met, told me that it was “a sad day I left [when the season ended]” and whispered to a new cheerleader “She[me] is the best.” as I was introducing myself to her. Emily, a girl with such a bubbly and outgoing personality, was eager for me to see her newly improved cartwheel she had been working on for months. It was a humbling feeling to know that I was able to make such an impact that they were counting down the days to when they could see me again. My entire athletic identity has been formed by strong leaders and their omnipresence in my life is what made my decision to begin coaching the best one I’ve ever made.
I played soccer sophomore and junior year in high school. My sophomore year was actually the first year I played soccer in a official team that I had to try out. But actually, my junior year I was chosen as a team captain and as a team captain I had to lead practice, starting with warm ups and stretches to leading them on the field and yelling my lungs out. Sometimes practice was rough to the point the girls wanted to give up but I always motivated them to do better and try their hardest because at the end of the day you were only cheating yourself or benefiting yourself. When my coach had to leave early for work, instead of finishing practice early, I continued to lead practice even if it meant taking the huge bag of balls home with me and
A time I have failed was when I was in middle school and I wanted to join the volleyball team. I went to volleyball tryouts and showed them my best at the time. I ended up not making it on the team. It made me really sad and made me feel discouraged from trying things.
This year will mark my second time taking Drama. Last semester I either had the role of an actor or a crew member. This time I’m going to be the assistant director. It’s a whole lot different because an assistant director has more power than an actor because there is more responsibilities involved. Furthermore, yet has to work well with everyone in the cast and crew.
This week I learned a lot about myself and how to better work with my team. I learned that I tend to be very strong in following and bystander actions. However, I could work on moving and opposing actions. At the same time, though, I feel like I have been doing some moving action in my team. I know that in most situations, I like avoiding to move or oppose, however, I have been working on this and really feel like I have been able to give my own opinions when I’m working with teams.
The people that I chose to interview were Todd Fetters, Paul Fetters, and Jacob Johnson. The reason why I chose these people is because they are people that I respect who have had roles of leadership in various settings in ministry. Some have worked as youth pastors others have taught ministry classes, and others have pastored at churches. The reason why I chose Todd Fetters is because he was a pastor for around twenty-five years and was recently named Bishop of the United Brethren denomination.
My role as a Teaching assistants is to support teachers and help children with their educational and social development in and out of the the classroom. This may mean working one 2 one, with small groups of children or supporting children with SEN or behaviour needs. My role means I have to work closely with teachers to make sure pupils enjoy learning in a safe and caring setting, having excellent interpersonal skills is paramount to the job as I will have to communicate effectively with teachers, pupils and parents. The roles and tasks I have to undertake will depend on the age of children I have to support, some of my roles will include: getting the classroom ready for lessons listening to children read, reading to them or telling them
Of all the skills I have, motivating people around me is the one that affected me most, which was discovered through "Heartful Christmas" - a voluntary activity held by my club. It was a special night when people was trying to come home earlier to celebrate Christmas with their families. On this twenty fourth day of December, we, a group of ten people, volunteered to do a bizarre mission: giving surprising gifts to homeless people and those who suffered severe poverty. Being assigned as a leader, as well as the youngest person in the group, I was fairly nervous, many questions naturally popped up in my mind: What kind of leader would I be? What would help me do that?
The shark siren had already gone off two times that morning, and the salt water sat heavy in the back of my throat. After being in the ocean for almost five hours that day I was ready to strip myself of my wet suit, and in all honestly order myself a juicy burger and a cold beer. As I walked into the basement of Gary’s Surf school, where I was currently working in South Africa, Gary called out “Hey Kait! One more! A walk- in lesson at 3:30, Are you Keen?!”
