Immersion Week Reflection Portfolio
Immersion Week Reflection Portfolio
Sami Bayyari
Discover Chicago
Autumn 2015
During immersion week I learned quite a few handy new skills and information such as navigating the city, remembering who we are as DePaul students inside and outside the campus, and the importance of charity/community work. When navigating the city, I learned to always walk briskly and stay aware to keep things moving and watch for the safety of myself and others. Holding my phone should not be done on
CTA. Another key tip to remember is that Chicago’s streets are under a grid system so streets are easy to navigate. When I’m out in the city it’s always important to remember who I am and what school I represent. DePaul promotes Vincentiant principles, and they encourage generosity, honesty and kindness. This reminds me to always think about others and how my actions would affect them. With this, the Depaul way also encourages charity/community work. Since I’ve had a lot of experience with that from high school, it was more of a transition than an adaptation. Working at the Ronald
McDonald House was enjoyable and heartwarming. Especially, since we all got to work together to make many people happy. Even though volunteering at PAWS was not particularly fun, it was still good to feel like I was making a difference and playing with cats is always a good time. I would enjoy working there again, and i will most definitely recommend it to volunteer work seekers. All this was food for thought, but i also learned other interesting things including the locations of famous death sites, and locations of important Chicagoan’s tombs and tombstones.
After this person who was quite relevant in my life passed away, I was much more calm and collected when someone close to me passed away. Someone even closer to me passed away recently and it didn’t hit me nearly as hard. It’s okay to feel sad, but I didn’t want to be trapped in my own thought and fall into a pit of
Sami Bayyari
Discover Chicago
Autumn 2015
During immersion week I learned quite a few handy new skills and information such as navigating the city, remembering who we are as DePaul students inside and outside the campus, and the importance of charity/community work. When navigating the city, I learned to always walk briskly and stay aware to keep things moving and watch for the safety of myself and others. Holding my phone should not be done on
CTA. Another key tip to remember is that Chicago’s streets are under a grid system so streets are easy to navigate. When I’m out in the city it’s always important to remember who I am and what school I represent. DePaul promotes Vincentiant principles, and they encourage generosity, honesty and kindness. This reminds me to always think about others and how my actions would affect them. With this, the Depaul way also encourages charity/community work. Since I’ve had a lot of experience with that from high school, it was more of a transition than an adaptation. Working at the Ronald
McDonald House was enjoyable and heartwarming. Especially, since we all got to work together to make many people happy. Even though volunteering at PAWS was not particularly fun, it was still good to feel like I was making a difference and playing with cats is always a good time. I would enjoy working there again, and i will most definitely recommend it to volunteer work seekers. All this was food for thought, but i also learned other interesting things including the locations of famous death sites, and locations of important Chicagoan’s tombs and tombstones.
After this person who was quite relevant in my life passed away, I was much more calm and collected when someone close to me passed away. Someone even closer to me passed away recently and it didn’t hit me nearly as hard. It’s okay to feel sad, but I didn’t want to be trapped in my own thought and fall into a pit of