ymca

YMCA

I just started working at the Local Joplin YMCA. Going into this I didn’t know if I would like it at all. Growing up I was the baby in the family so I never had to deal with little siblings. So I have never really had experience with younger kids. So I predicted that it was going to be a great challenge on my first day. Going into my first day I was sitting the cafeteria at the school and was not feeling to good about this. As I’m weighting the girl walks through the door and introduces herself. She would be my other teacher I would be working with. I was still a little scared but I though well at least I get to work with this pretty gal.  The kids started showing up and I begun to realize this other teacher had a pretty good handle on the kids. Well I was thinking this won’t be nearly as bad as I though.  We went outside and played on the play ground. I was thinking this is great I get paid to play old school yard games I miss. Which it turned out to be a little more than that, but I was really surprised there was five little kids that came up to me and said I looked like they had seen me before. I began to figure out that they realized I playing football with The Missouri Southern lions, and they have seen me on game day before.  This was really cool for me because I’m just a redshirt freshman not getting that much playing time but these kids knew who I was.  Can’t imagine what it would be like to be Brandon Williams. Thought out that first day it went really well we played lots of games and the kids had a lot of fun. One of the hardest parts for me did not know everyone’s name. It’s really hard to discipline a kid for doing something wrong when you can’t even call them by their name. You’re not going to get respect from a kid by saying hey you you’re in trouble.  So one day down and I was ok with this job. I still didn’t really know if I liked it or not but it was promising. The next day I got to go back to the same school which I liked. I don’t like going to a different school every day. It’s just not very appealing to me. I like being at one school and getting to know the kids you are with. Which is what I got to do being with these kids for three days in a row. I really started to like a lot of them and you could tell they were starting to like me a lot too. It was nice to because I got to learn a lot of their names and it was a lot easier to be friends with them and play with them, but at the same time it was also nice when it came to being the teacher when you had to be stick with them. Over all I really like it.