Today was my first volunteer day with SHAWCO. I will volunteer every Thursday from 2-5pm at the Khayelitsha Centre (K2) (http://www.shawco.org/content/view/32/62/) with the section called SMART. Thursdays with SMART focuses on science and I will be tutoring physics this semester. I am so excited because I met my group of four girls today, whom I will get to know and work with over the course of this semester. They are so ambitious and smart! I feel truly blessed to work with such a neat group of young women.
Each week, I will be working on a lesson that corresponds with what the girls are learning at school. The lesson today was electrostatics. We worked over the positive and negative charges of protons and electrons, magnetic fields, waves and the formulae used to determine the amount of force contributed by a particular source. Being the silly person I am, I used lots of big hand gestures and funny analogies to help ease the dryness of the topic. We were all smiles and quickly worked through the assigned problems in the book.
After finishing the lesson at hand, I asked the girls if they had any questions from other homework and we went over a few more physics and some algebra problems. It was so nice to feel like I helped them grasp topics that will contribute toward their Matrics and further their education. I am pumped to refresh my memory on this fun topic and make some awesome friends!
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