Ben Gurion Elementary School Week 9

This is my last blog entry and Im feeling really sad. I just finished my essay and Im starting to realize that year course is one week away from ending. Im truly going to miss Ben Gurion Elementary School and all of the students there. I was in Tsfat since Wednesday so I didnt have volunteering this week. But today, I went to the school to say good bye and It was really nice to see that people actually cared about me. All the kids wanted my phone number and were asking me to hang out with them after school. My volunteering supervisor gave me a school tshirt and some cookies. They truly appreciated me and I feel the same way about them. I feel that this service learning class was very important, and it helped me with my volunteering as well. In this class, I learned about teaching strategies to teach English as a second language, and it really changed my volunteering experience. I think that future volunteers should learn this before they start volunteering so they can really make an impact on the students instead of just pretending to do something. I have to admit this is one of the only classes Ive ever enjoyed, and I would recommend it to future year course participants.