As I got to BJM Ms. Stacy told me that I can either head over to the math and science room or the art room, and I decided to head over to the art room. I sat down with a couple of students and recognized a student I had spent time with last week. I asked Maddie what she was trying to do and she told me that she is writing a card and needs me to help her spell some names, including her own. As we started, she closely imitated the motions I was making with the marker until we got to a lowercase ‘q.’ We struggled with this for a while and I kept redrawing it in the hopes that she will eventually understand, and ultimately Maddie let out a loud sigh and said “Seher, you aren’t doing it properly! You need to make a small head and draw a ponytail on it.” As soon as she said that Ms. Sarah and I started laughing and I could not do much else other than agree. 

This simple incident for some reason has stuck with me and it made me realize how important perspective is, sometimes the things we tend to overthink and complicate as adults can seem less daunting only if we looked at them a little differently. Being able to help Maddie write her name was something I greatly enjoyed as she seemed so excited and motivated to learn and it is something that made my time there infinitely more valuable and enjoyable.