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Personal Narrative: My First Day At Nora Sterry Elementary School

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On February 9, 2016, I began my first day as a volunteer at Nora Sterry Elementary School. I walked to the site with Carmen Garcia and it took about a half hour. On my way, we easily noticed the difference in Nora Sterry’s surrounding community and UCLA’s. Passing the freeway about a block away from the elementary school, homeless slept on the side walks of the streets.Though UCLA is near this location, the university is sphered by cool shops and tall buildings in Westwood. Not many would think that just a couple blocks down, a community would be impoverished. (Definitely a surprise) When I first arrived at Nora Sterry, it looked small and colorful with murals and paintings on the playground. However, it was surrounded by a brown gate that made it look gloomy and less like an elementary school and more like an area under construction because it hid the buildings; but the inside of the school was bright as can be! (and it was not dazzling because of the happy smiles of Miss Reese’s First Grade class)! …show more content…

They were so excited to have another helper in their class room from UCLA. Many of the kids were familiar with the university and our sports record, which I thought was pretty cool. They all spoke about college and about how they all wanted to go to UCLA. They asked me questions about what I was studying and what classes I was taking and what I wanted to do when I finished college. I was glad that I could answer most of their questions, but what impressed me the most was their college knowledge! Room 14 was filled with so many kids (a class with about twenty-five first graders *underestimate) and they were all really smart for six and seven year olds.Some of their parents were college professors and one student, Nam (I think that was his name) even shared with me that his dad was a physics professor, something else that I thought was super

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