Personal Reflections – 25 March
| Before Service Activity | During Service Activity | After Service Activity | |
| Alone | I feel nervous as this is the first session of our program for me. There is little that I can prepare for this session so I will just prepare myself to have good conduct and talk to this 8 year old girl. | During the session, Ashley was attentive and all however she did not answer my questions and seems to have some hesitation with me. I have been very kind and friendly but she is just cold towards me. | I was very shattered after the session ended. She seemed very relieved once the session had ended. I believe she didn’t put in enough effort. She is a very quiet girl and is very difficult to communicate with. |
Personal Reflections – 1 April
| Before Service Activity | During Service Activity | After Service Activity | |
| Alone | I hope to be able to communicate with her more. I hope that today would be a better day then last week as there wasn’t much of a connection between us last week. She only nodded or shook her head when asked questions. | She was paying lesser attention and more interested in playing with her hair or bag. | Today was more of a disaster than the previous week. I really have to put in my best effort to keep a conversation going as this conversations I have been having with her have not been going anywhere. |
Personal Reflections – 8 April
| Before Service Activity | During Service Activity | After Service Activity | |
| Alone | This sessions have not been beneficial to her. There has to be a way to gain her interest but I am not sure. Today I am going to try to loosen her up with some jokes. | She was rather uncooperative and silent throughout the service activity. Even when I had told the joke there wasn’t even a chuckle or a sniffle. There is seriously something wrong with me or her. | I feel really bad as I am not making a difference in this girl’s reading ability or developing her reading interest. I feel like giving her up, but that is not the right thing to do. |
Personal Reflections – 15 April
| Before Service Activity | During Service Activity | After Service Activity | |
| Alone | I am not nervous for the first time. She has not been a real fright and I think I should just take this sessions as a learning experience and make a change for the better in the coming sessions. | There is a sort of tension between the two of us. It takes two to communicate. I have been talking too much even I’m tired of my own voice but she doesn’t seem to want to talk. I am very sad. | I am feeling bad for not helping her be able to communicate comfortably with me. There is no one way which she can tell me how I can help. Helplessness is the word of the day. |
Personal Reflections –22 April
| Before Service Activity | During Service Activity | After Service Activity | |
| Alone | I am for the first time excited about today’s session. I don’t know why but I feel this way | I was definitely wrong about feeling something special about today. Today was the same as any other day as boring and uninteresting in every and any way. | I think the reading is getting too boring for her. We shall start on the flashcards next week. Maybe that will get her talking more. |
