Friday, May 14, 2010
bibliography
Images 1-8 taken on March 29, 2010
Images 9-18 taken on April 23, 2010
Samantha Hyde –“Beauty in Other Cultures”
final paper
Taking film 150, multicultural America, students were required to do volunteer work, or as the course called it, service learning. The students were assigned to an elementary school on the south side of Milwaukee called Escuela Vieau. With the south side of Milwaukee being predominately Latino, the students at the school were mostly all Latino as well. Growing up in a suburb of Milwaukee, I was never exposed to any other culture or race. The city I grew up in was predominately Caucasian with some of the population being of Asian decent and African American. So I was not familiar with the Latino culture and figured this would a great way to learn about their culture. Going to orientation was a little frightening; you hear stories from friends saying that I’m going to a bad neighborhood. When I walked up to the door it was locked and a fellow classmate helped me out by pointing out the doorbell you had to ring to get into the building, this just kind of justified what my friends were talking about, but after going to the neighborhood so often, I realized for myself that it was not the bad neighborhood that I hear about before and actually found out that the little suburban high school I went to installed a doorbell to gain access into the building as well. Anyways, after meeting the staff of the boys and girls club and Escuela Vieau I thought that this would be a very enjoyable experience. They were so warm and welcoming, just a trait of the Latino culture. Being assigned to sports and fitness I would play sports with the kids for about an hour and a half every Monday. The children always wanted to play soccer, which is probably one of the favorite sports of the Latino culture and I love playing soccer, I’ve played it all my life so it was fun to play again. I had a class that started on Mondays half way through the semester so I had to switch to tutoring on Fridays. I tutored Brian, a third grader at Escuela Vieau. Brian and I would usually work on math, science and his scholastic reader assignments. Brian did not like to do his homework; instead he liked to talk about his family and friends. Brian did well speaking English, but had trouble reading it. I tried to help him pronounce the letter and piece the word together. I hope he gained some knowledge from be because it was very rewarding to help him out and also learn about his culture and this whole experience helped me to expand my
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