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Experience #1 My experienced on Reynaldo Garza Elementary went pretty well and it was my first time actually collaborating with a school counselor. I arrived at the school at 8:15 a.m. and went to the main office to wait for Mrs. Laura Estrada. She was already at the school, but she was in a meeting with Mr. Torres the Principal. She came to meet me in person at the office for the first time and she told me to wait couple minutes because she was responsible for a section of the announcement for that day. She mentioned that she had to announce the character of the day due to being Martin Luther King’s Day. While I was waiting in the officer I got to see the children who were going to sing the anthem and some University students that went to the school to read books to children in the library. It was interesting to see how much activity goes on in a school at such an early time. Many people entering and exiting the office due to paperwork, had appointments with staff members, and picking up children due to being sick. After, Ms. Estrada finished with her duties and she took me to her office. She introduced me to Ms. Abete, who is a part-time school counselor helping her at this time. She explained me her scheduled for today because she mentioned that it changes every week due to being the only full-time elementary school counselor for the school. She mentioned she has to make changes constantly to her schedule in order to meet her administration requirements and the children’s needs. Then, she proceeded by showing me her room around and the little stations she has for children to do activities depending her grade level. She showed me the technology resources she had and how to use it in order to play the movie for th... ... middle of paper ... ...interesting in. I continue helping the school counselors by making sure everything was set up and ready to start the career fair for middle school students. Then, I started to take pictures of all the tables with the presenters before the students came in to the gymnasium and proceeded to invite presenters to grab breakfast snacks from the tables before the career fair started. It was an interesting morning seeing how much movement goes on at school for events. I was always involved in school events, but I never got to see how much efforts school counselors and staff members put in for an event at school. This day made me realize how much I as a student in middle school did not see or comprehend the efforts school counselors put into their student’s future. It was a wonderful experienced to have had the opportunity to help school counselors in a career fair.

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