Entry #8 - Overall Reflection

Goals

I wanted to be more fluent in English and I can say that I attend one of my principals goals, now a have a low inhibition and I’m not very shy when I have to speak in English, I’m more confident.  Improve my listening comprehension and writing were part of my goals too. Now I’m able to understand very well when someone is talking at me, but the writing was the harder part and even if I wrote 8 blogs, I need more practice so my writing has improved but not the way I wanted.

Strategies

Have low inhibition and talk to myself were the two strategies I wrote on my first blog. I used it every time I         had the opportunity, but it wasn’t enough, because I had to add more strategies for achieve my goals like, practice, repetition, guessing and constantly searching for meaning. I will use this strategies for now on, for example: if I’m talking with someone, I’ll ask for repetition or clarification, every time I read an English book, Ill search the meaning of the words I don’t know, finally, I’ll practice my English every time I can, reading a book, watching the TV etc.

Language

My English level had improved. The most of things I learned about it were news words. I’m a little bit more fluent and I can pronounce better the words. The grammar was the most challenging thing of my internship (writing the posts) because I don’t used to write in English before the internship. The easier thing to do was understand what someone is trying to say, because I already had good level of listening comprehension before the internship.

Growth

All I know after doing my internship is that I still want to work with children in the future.

The internship

All I’m going to take with me are the good memories of the people who worked with me and the children who I played with. The only thing I would change is being less shy from the beginner of my internship.

Gratitude

I wrote a note for my host Emilie:

Dear Emilie:

Thank you for having me at the club, 

I’ve really enjoyed work with the children. 

You were a great host.

-Gretha

The placement

Only the people who  are very patient and love being with children will enjoy working at Boy’s and Girl’s club.