Reflection Paper On Why I Want To Plan A Beautification Day In High School

“How old are you? That’s right, I am the adult and you kids should listen to me! I have the experience and knowledge and you guys don’t!” yelled the coordinator who I collaborated with to plan a beautification day in his high school. This happened during my Junior year in one of my most dedicated extracurricular activities, Community Action for Teens. Along with 3 of my friends who are officers of the youth group and our program site manager and my mentor, we were working on building our capacity with other organizations and local high schools. In particular, we choose to work with one local high school. I was filled with joy to further apply my leadership skills to help out this high school. Even though I did not attend this school, because I got into the Charter program to attend Chamblee High School, the high school was still my home school, so it had all of my childhood friends that I grew up with.
With my optimistic face on, I could not wait to start planning for this beautification and meeting our liaison and coordinator. On the first meeting, we sat down with him and laid out our weekly goals, jobs to perform around the school, basic materials needed, and ways to raise money to prepare for the event.

It was both of our faults for not putting into more effort in communicating with one another. Clearly, we saw how he had a lack of experience working with youth and his laidback characteristic also hindered his performance collaborating with us. Together, we are all at fault for what happened. After the incident, there was a meeting with the principal and our site manager about the incident and events leading up to it. We came together one more time to loosen up our grudge and anger and come into terms. Forget about the past and move forward towards a brighter partnership. My response did not improve the situation, but it did resolve the conflict earlier than to let it build up towards the