Last Class!

Last week was our last class....so sad!  We had both the sections combined and we did our evaluations, had a guest speaker, and did a couple activities as a whole group.  The guest speaker talked to us about doing an independent undergraduate research studies.  I would LOVE to do that and think it would be the best experience ever, but I'm not sure if time would allow for me to do so because I am almost done with my schooling and trying to crunch it all in.  The student shared her experience of when she went to Costa Rica and worked in a facility that had little to no recreation at all and how challenging but rewarding her time was.  The were not a lot of resources or materials that the volunteers had to work with so it really depended on their creative side to make activities work and create things to do.  All the participants just know work because they never get to have any freedom or fun. 

The idea of being quick on your feet and making adaptations lead into the rest of the class period of when we did activities with Heather.  The first activity was where we went up to the front of the class in groups and were given a card and we had to introduce ourselves as a CTRS to different populations.  It was really funny and a lot of people got into it!  The second activity we did was kind of the same thing but we only had roughly twenty seconds to introduce ourselves or answer a specific question.  As a winding down activity we all were given a scenario that might make us late or screw up our plans for a program we were putting on and we had to think of alternative things to do and specific activities. 

I have learned so much from this class that I can implement into my future career and even my classes I have left.  Now that we are in the last of our core classes, everyone knows each other on a comfortable level and it makes the class that much more enjoyable!  I really enjoyed learning from the instructors!