Sometimes you have to take joy in the moment! That's what I found myself doing this week. I feel like we dove so quickly into the laws. But we also have had much repetition in learning the laws, which I have absolutely appreciated. That's the part that has brought me so much joy. Knowing I don't have to master them after having gone over them once or twice, it really brought me at ease to simply understand that the laws were important that needed to be mastered but that there was sometime and help involved.

I loved being able to not only discuss them as class but it helped to be tested on them as groups before hand so that when we talked as a class the groups had small discussions during the class discussions. It just felt like i was surrounded by an ever improving environment, that none of us had a full understanding of the concepts we were learning this week but we all had the same goal, retain as much as we could!

Not only did the activity and the discussion really allow me to be engaged as much as possible this week but also the two words we were given on Friday, SO WHAT? It really opened my understanding as to what my purpose as an educator leader and role model is. That i'm not just there to give out word for word what the books say but that i am there to make a difference, to impact these childrens futures. 

I feel like what I learned this week just honestly continues to amaze me that i can become so much more in tuned with the real struggles of the world. As I learn the things I do in class and am able to store them in my brain and then walk amongst the people and observe how these things apply i find my self in situations where I feel like the smartest person in the world because i can finally make connections. Such as when I had the opportunity to go to the special needs place this week to volunteer, as I just sat there and talked to these individuals I could see the brilliance they were each given, the efforts they were putting in, but I sat there and was told about the walls that were put before them and I thought of certain laws that have abolished only a few of those walls. and even if the laws have changed them doesn't mean it changed the peoples point of view. It was REAL!

I felt like this week my peers and I were anxious for understanding, for clarification, for direction. I felt that as the week drew towards an end we found only understanding and clarification and direction that we needed at that time. I feel like we will constantly be at a thirst for knowledge which is a very good thing seeing as all cannot be attained at once.