Shadowing Reflection

My senior project was on shadowing Dr. Douglas Smith, he is an optometrist at the Bison Vision Center. I would watch him perform on his patients, while at the same time I was taking notes of every move he made while treating the patients. The shadowing was divided between 3 different sections, the first section was him doing paperwork, the paperwork was mostly government based. Secondly, it was fitting the glasses to the patient so they glasses would not slide of the person face. Lastly, it was the actual check up to the patient to see if they would need glasses, this would require 30 minutes of precise work and asking questions to best fit the patient needs. For the last 15 hours of my project, the planning and implementing was the same. I would go into his office ask questions about the job. For example, one day I asked “how are you able to enjoy this career for over 30 years” and he responded with “I don’t see patients as floating eyes, They have a brain, heart, and eyes”. So for the past 30 hours he would talk to me about the human side of optometry, and on the plus side I got great quotes from him. And the truth is shadowing is a practice of patience because everything is repetitive,
But, the biggest change of the shadowing was going to the Rotary Club. The Rotary Club is a group of people who own their own business and donate money to charities. The meeting felt more like a cult gathering because they would chant a phrase in latin. After the phrase they would go to each table and introduce themselves and their guests, the moment they introduced me, I felt like a new member of the cult...but not wealthy.This was an experience that I’ll never forget because I was the only latino in that room and I want to change that for the best. That was the only addition I made to my project since I wrote Narrative 1. But this addition is one that motivates me to change the path of a club dominantly