Francie Huebner
July 1 8:30-3:00
Mr. Victoria
rvictoria@menloschool.org

Throughout my time at Bridge, I also discovered my strengths when working in a team, as I joined with some of my fellow TA’s to organize field trips, field days, and the events of the last day. Although I rather take a leadership role, I learned how to delegate my responsibilities and learn how to be flexible so I wasn’t overwhelmed with all of the details. For example, when organizing the first field day, I had spent two days searching for fun games for the students to play throughout the day in a rotating schedule. I had one of the TA’s find games to play, while I worked on timing. The next day I created a spreadsheet of the day and asked one of my more artistically inclined TA’s to draw a map of the day. Even though all of this hard work went into organizing, when I met with one of the teachers who wanted to plan they field day, they decided to change every part of what I had planned. Although frustrating because the field day was the next day, it was a valuable lesson to learn how to adapt quickly and efficiently. It took some extra time to figure out, but the next day was field day so it had to be done. One of my favorite moments of Bridge was looking around and seeing all of the students having so much fun during this field day. It was so rewarding to see all of the hard work we put into this day pay off in the end.