This week at Pathfinders we did not do much.  We started off with the Spanish honor led by the woman who has been teaching it for the past few weeks.  We then helped pack up some equipment for the church and the camping trip that the kids will be taking this weekend.  Unfortunately I cannot go on the trip because of my involvement in a program this weekend and the homework that I already know that I will have (and maybe more).  Next week the kids will be starting the bicycle honor. I am not sure who is teaching the honor though.

Since my explanation of the meeting was short I will go into some of the other details of what I have learned and how I have "grown" from my project.  The experience of my project has given me a new stance on teaching and school in general.  I used to be frustrated with how teachers ran things but I understand now why certain things happen in certain ways.  Teaching, while seemingly matter of fact, is very difficult.  Many times, things do not go as they were planned.  It is the teachers job to be able to improvise and pool their own knowledge and resources to work with a class in such occasions.  I have learned that you need to plan well in advance to make sure that every plan and everything needed for instruction is available.  Often when I didn't plan until a day or two before I found myself in a panic to get everything that I needed.  I feel that I have grown as a person in my speaking as well as in my knowledge.  Teaching in front of a class has allowed me to build up my speaking skills a bit so that I am not as nervous to talk to people.  I have also found that by teaching, I have reinforced my knowledge.  I have actually learned more about the subjects that I have taught and have retained the knowledge.  The best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else.  Overall I am satisfied with the results of my project so far and look forward to see the end results as it comes to a close.  On another note I am starting to put a slideshow of pictures together for my presentation.  I don't know if my speaking skills have gotten that good that I can speak in front of a group of around 20 or more people, but hopefully I will be able to come out of the presentation feeling that I did well.