Service Learning Week #1

I think as my first post it would be only right if I first explain what I am doing at the place that I am working at. One first has to understand the surroundings and the people that work around one before I can analyze them and my work completely.
I work as a foreign language tutor in the foreign language department, besides me there are several other tutors. I am tutoring German since I am German myself as many know already. Besides all the other Tutor, we also have a secretary, my boss, and people who look over the foreign language lab.
Dr Kluthe said at our last class meeting that it is going to be hard for those people who are already insiders to have an outsider look and point of view, but I don't think so. I have worked in the foreign language department as a tutor and a webdesigner already last semester and I am still remembering also my beginnings how it was for me to go there the first time, getting then my first student to tutor and helping out at the place and learning about the people that are working there.
I think this place is a very interesting to be at, because I am not only getting to see everything in the point of a tutor, but also I am getting to meet casual students from campus. This environment that I am working in is giving me to understand how hard it is for students and also for the people to help them to get better in their classes.
My very first day there was not that interesting. Sure it was a little bit weird for me to learn that I have to sit now on the other side of the table of a student, don't get taught but teach. But on my first day I did not had to do anything of these but I got to learn some of the friendly people that are working there, get to view the facilities and had to learn the rules about what students can and can't use.
This was pretty much my first day at my volunteer work place.