Reflection #4

 CLARITY

This week as it relates to my service learning and general week I had to learn the importance of clarity. Clarity is an important part of communication. For me not having clarity triggers a lot of anxiety. For this week a lot of my anxiety was streaming from trying to find the right service learning community. It was difficult communicating via email having to wait for a response that I didn’t know would come. While also still evaluating which service learning would fit best what I am capable of doing and also a focus of interest. But before I got to this sort of investigative process, just the thought of doing all those things Came with a lot of ambiguity and fear of being overwhelmed with new responsibilities that I won’t have control over but as the week progressed, I made sure to ask all the questions that came to mind and made sure that I knew what I would be willing to offer each program.. My desire is to work working with real world English. The issue with this program was after continually emailing. I never got a response, I gave it some time due to the Labor day weekend. It was a valid reason for almost a weeks late response. But as the week continued, I realized I couldn't just wait, I had to take action because it was important for me to work with this program. All the while I was hearing responses from other programs, but even after deducing questions for each program, Real World English seemed to fit my interest most.  So by the end of the week I decided to reach out to another student in  my class who mentioned their interest in the same service learning. From them, I received more direct contact. THough I still haven’t heard back from real world English,  I know that I did everything I could in my power to get the clarity that I need for the program that I’d like to be a part of going forward. I know that even in my personal life that lack of clarity can really slow me down and adds unnecessary pressure and worrying. Moving forward I plan to continue to practice the art of getting clarity.