Every day at the end of WAV’s summer programming, the kids and coaches all rate our day on a scale of one to ten and talk about our highs and lows. Today, as I write this blog post I am coming off of a day that was a ten for me, so I am very excited to write about it.

We had fewer kids attend the program today, so that would be my low, but the group we had was amazing. My first high was the field trip we took to the Main Columbus Library. We did a scavenger hunt, and I got to go around with the younger kids to find books, play with Legos, and look at the different displays. There were a lot of other camps there today and it was very cool seeing such an important space for the community being utilized. 

My second high was when we filmed a mini music video. Our middle schoolers have been working on an original song, and today they got to teach it to the younger students. All of them performed the song along with the choreography they created today, and their performance was full of energy and very impressive. Since I normally only work with the younger students I had not heard their full song yet, and I loved seeing how proud they were of the product they are creating and how much fun they had teaching it. 

I wanted to write about these moments because no matter where I work I know there are going to be highs and lows, but celebrating the highs and recognizing the growth of the kids in WAV’s program reinforces the reasons I wanted to participate in this fellowship to begin with. I have a direct impact working with these students every day, and I am going to miss them when the program ends in June. However, I am also excited to see the other projects I am doing with WAV this summer begin to develop, and I am ready for the new experience that will come with them.