During my Junior and Senior years of high school I participated in a program called Excel Tutoring. This was a program meant to help students in grades one through six who had diffculties with math and reading. At first I joined this program because I needed extra credit for a class, after all it was held Saturday mornings (who wants to get up early on a Saturday??) but once I got the hours I needed I didn't want to stop going. I had worked with the same girl every Saturday I was there and it was a life changing experience.
I always knew I loved working with kids because I was baby sitter, but after really sitting down and doing school work with this girl, I felt that it was something I could see myself doing over the next few years. Now, I'm currently an Education major and hope to either become a teacher or something where I work with kids.
I currently volunteer at an elementary school once a week in the morning. It is probably one of the best feelings in the world for me to come into the classroom and have the students run up to me with their arms wide open, screaming "Miss Michelle is here!"
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