Week Four- Let it Snow

Well here I am writing my blog for the week, I know everyone in class was very upset about not having class this week because of snow ;)

As I read this chapter I tied everything I read to experiences I have had as a Community Advisor.  This helps me analyze the way I have handled situation and the how I could improve them in the future.  The part of this chapter that really made me think was the mentoring relationship.  The chapter says that mentoring is primarily about creating and enduring a meaningful relationship with another person.  This made me think about why I wanted to become a community advisor.  I wanted to have/build a close relationship with students that I am supposed to be an authority figure over.  It is important for me to master this because I plan on becoming a teacher and i need to know how to build meaningful relationships, while maintaining distance and authority.  I believe being a peer mentor will help me learn and develop this talent more as well.

Another part of the peer mentoring relationship were the attributes that improve the peer mentor relationship.  Many of these included knowing and utilizing campus resources and drawing on previous experiences.  One thing that I need to work on is the acting and coming across as authentic.  I sometimes have a tendency of coming across as sarcastic when I really don't mean to be.  I need to put a stop to this because a peer mentor needs to come across as caring and authentic in order to have a positive affect on their students.

These were a couple of things that really stuck out to me in the chapter!