Faith Town Band

Hours: 8
Area: Creativity

Date: September 2012- October 2012 (Sunday mornings)

Learning Outcomes: Increase my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth, undertake new challenges, work collaboratively with others, develop new skills.

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Throughout the fall of my junior year, I got to spend my Sunday mornings singing in front of group of children from the North Raleigh Community. This task was a great deal of fun, and I loved having an opportunity to show of my creativity and singing. When working with the Faith Town band, I was given a lot of responsibility to come up with song lists and ideas for our performances each Sunday. Planning these things, along with coming up with time to practice together, helped me become more aware of my strength in organization.  I realized that I have a strength of getting things together and making sure that things run smoothy when needed. While I realized that organization may be a strength, I realized that I may have a weakness when it came to picking new and different songs, as well as coming up with different ways to present these things to the children. However, working with my band, we were able to collaborate and come up with many good ideas, which was a blast. I enjoyed having a chance to trade ideas with other people and discuss new and exciting ways to do things. Overcoming the challenges in creativity brought our band together and made us better as a group, as well as improved us individually. Working with the Faith Town band was such an exciting experience, I enjoyed the chance to expand my creative talents and sing in front of a group of children from the Raleigh area. I hope I am blessed to have this opportunity again!