First day at VIPS!

My first day at VIPS was great! I got students from Classical and Central High Schools. I was really surprised because ninety percent of the students that goes right to the VIPS office located on Westminister are Dominicans, and so am I. It was great and comfortable for me to work with them and help them with their homework and assigments. As the rest of my classmates, they assigned me to VIPS office, not directly to a school so I get a lot of students from different schools, but must of them are from Central and Classical High Schools. The area that we work at it's not huge, but all the students feel comfortable sharing and giving others that space to work. They also have computers that the students can use for their assignments. There is no professor assigned to this place, but there is a great coordinator, and he is also Hispanic, he is in charge of all the students that goes for help and of all the mentors or volunteers. The students love me and feel really comfortable working with me because the students are Dominicans, they dont't speak English, but Spanish and are in ESL programs, it's really hard for them to communicate in English so they feel comfortable getting my help in Spanish. They are great and very respectful. I also got involved into others programs because I really like the environment and my students. I offered my help to teach the students English along with another college student girl, we are trying to help the students improve their English, and that program runs on Tuedays and Thursday. Another program that I got into is CAAP mentor on Saturdays, that's to help middle school and high school students with their school work. In my first day at VIPS I realized that I wasn't only doing this project learning as a requirement for this class, I am also doing it because I like it, and that's why I decided to get involved into others programs that VIPS offers.