SAS meeting # 2 !!!

So, today we had the second official SAS meeting... and I thought it went extremely well! Basically, we arranged everything in a circle so that made discussions easier and it made it feel less like a class oriented lesson and what not. I believe I accomplished well as I was able to talk more. I think there were times when I actually interrupted shagana and what not but yeah... usually I just don't say anything, but this time it felt as if I talked and talked and talked. Some points though, it didn't happen very often but still... there were times when I felt like I was saying things that didn't really make sense. Like it makes sense to me, because I understand, but if I put myself in one of the members points of views it might not have made sense so I tried to make sure I didn't ramble on as much and what not. We had a guest speaker come in, Ashley from Kiwi Commons. I thought it was a great opportunity that we could have a guest speaker and that it's soo cool to have guest speakers come in to talk during our club meeting. But as Ashley came in, she didn't seem too prepared in my opinion. Like she kinda winged it, like she knew what she was talking about because she just talked about her job and about the organization that she worked for... but like I guess I kinda thought she would come with like a list of things to say and what not... I guess not everyone in this world is like that... haha

Anyways, so we had some mixed feedback about the guest speaker and hopefully next time or during the future meetings we could have more inspirational, less boring and perhaps student speakers? I really enjoyed how there were some dialogue and conversations going on and people did ask questions. It was better than last week, but I do believe that we still have plenty to improve on as a group to talk more, and be more open and have more discussions. We had more people turn out this week I believe, like I didn't really count this time, I forgot to count, and neither did Shagana, so we were kinda at a loss their but anyways, it was good that we had lots of new members, but it was bad that only a handful if not less people from the first meeting showed up. What was also really good is that we made the yearbook! Haha, Kristen came in to take a picture of us for the yearbook, and that was something that I wanted to do so that`s fantastic!

We also discussed upon going someplace and volunteering as a whole group either at a school event or at a community event, and quite surprisingly lots of people were interested in it. So I'm really glad for that, and I guess I'm gonna have to look into that ... I need to make some arrangements and get things set in stone before next meeting. Also, the other thing that we had sign-ups for were random school volunteering opportunities. Mrs. Arena talked to me a few days ago and asked me to get some people sign up for Godspell and Graduation to help out and volunteer for that.. like those are easy things, but I wasn`t sure if people wanted to volunteer for it. But in the end, I think majority of the group wanted to volunteer for that and it`s fantastic... I`m so happy for the progress and success we made in such little time! It`s fantastic and I know that it will just keep getting better, at least I hope! But for the mean time, I will have to continue looking for more volunteering opportunities!