Leadership and Peer Support

Leadership and Peer Support Final Reflection Guide Mihalitsa Hatzisavvas At the beginning of this year I had no idea which class I wanted to take last. I had not many options, I went from Law to English to Media then I was just going to take a spare. One day as I was walking down to my next class I heard Mr.Karr talking about the Leadership class and how it only had one student in it so far. I then went and took it to the next step and did my research and I got put in leadership. I didn’t have a clue on what I was doing or what it was about, all I knew was that it required me to change and become a leader to the school. Throughout the semester it had its good times and it’s bad. I learned a lot about myself and how to present myself to other people. The first couple days of going into my placement was hard, I never enjoyed it. I’ve always loved sports and being active but I hated the fact that I didn’t know anyone or what my teacher expected me to do. The first day was hard, I was prepared with proper gym clothes but I didn’t know what I was supposed to do, so I just participated with the Grade 10 girls and what they were doing. The next week I felt much better. I knew what I was doing after I spoke to Mrs. Mann and Mrs.Shillium and that was for me to motivate the students, never letting them give up, helping Mrs. Mann with her activities and basically just help around with whatever needs to be done. It got easier as the days went on, I got to meet some amazing girls that I’ve never spoke to while being at Williams and I built on friendships. Now whenever I walk the halls I wave and say a quick hello. They were the best group of girls I have ever worked with in a class or even outside of school, so that’s how it also made it easy for me to get used to being a leader in gym. I was