The Welcome Back Picnic was a great event for all the new students to ISK, and it was also a great opportunity for us to meet them and to see our classmates and friends after the holidays.
A few of my friends and I volunteered to help guide the new high school students around our campus, show them classrooms and other facilities.
I found that this was a great experience for me, because it enabled me to re-learn our school campus with fresh eyes, and discovering it with the confusion of many new students was a truly interesting experience, as I had almost forgotten what being a new student was like.
I think that I was really able to help, because the crowding of emotions, people and new things was too much for many of these students, and I was able to help them, look after the littler ones, and talk about life here at ISK to those who are older.
We also helped new parents with their children's school supplies, and we talked to them about life at ISK too.
I believe that this experience has helped me mature in those circumstances that I need to be: talking to and helping adults, especially parents, is a challenge when you are but a student, not much more than a child, and putting us into a position of power, so to speak, is a leap of faith, as I saw that it was quite hard for certain lower grade volunteers not to smirk at being more knowledgeable than an unknown adult.
I can only hope that this will serve me well later on this year when I have to speak to teachers and students from all around Africa for the GISS conference.
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