Experiences in my teenage years
I started a new job at Youth Guidance Outreach Services (YGOS) this January and I've gained so many insights about myself in this short 11 months. My position at YGOS requires me to go into Primary and Secondary schools to run after-school programmes for kids whom the school has identified as having high needs - be it socially, emotionally, or behaviorally. The first two schools I stepped into was CSS and RVSS. I remember this sense of fear when I stepped into the dreary school building filled with uniform wearing students. CSS had bright colored walls and unusual architecture, which helped to put some distance between my secondary school experience from the current reality, but RVSS gave me a real throw back to the past. When the familiar sound of school bells came on, my heart started pumping harder and faster than usual and I realized I definitely have some unresolved issues from way back when. I grew up lacking a sense of identity and very unsure of myself. I was unsure of how
