Throughout my high school career, I was a student who was up to their waist in “service learning.”  If there was tutoring to be done, I did it- I loved to volunteer, but the main project I completed was helping design and implement a freshman orientation program at my high school.  Starting my sophomore year, a group of students and myself got together and designed a program to help the transition of eighth grade students into the high school atmosphere.  We had to figure out what methods would be the most effective and when we decided on using peer mentors, we had to recruit and train around 150 students at the high school.  From the starting point to when I graduated the program had gone through some good and bad times.  It was tough trying to keep a program of that size effective but at the same time you were able to see the impact.  Overall I think the experience was helpful to my personal development and I believe it will help with my service learning in 121B.  In the orientation program I was able to interact and act as a mediator between students and staff at the school, so I think it’ll be helpful working in the Boys and Girls Club.