Castle Ball

Two Wednesday's ago I had the pleasure to learn the game castle ball. Castle ball is were you take six hola hoops and make a castle out of it, then the other team tries to knock yours over. This is a picture of me in one of the Castles the kids made. The goal of the game is to knock over the other teams castles. Each team had three castles and two guards to each one. Everyone else on the team has soft balls that they through at the other teams castles. Once the castle has been knocked down the two guards must put it up as fast as possible.


The game was alot of fun I helped teach the kids how to guard there castles by being ready with their hands up ready to block a ball. I also helped them remake their castles. Some of them forgot how to build them so I had to give them a quick 101 of castle building in the middle of the game.

After we finished playing castle ball for the day the little ones have to rest for a minute. After they are allowed to get drinks. I have to watch and make sure they don't take too long getting drinks and they stay behind the silver line before they get drinks.

What it is to be a Parish Hillcrest Fellow

The Hillcrest Fellow Program was set up for Seniors to help unite both our Midway and Hillcrest Campuses by having students volunteer and help teach the youth of the school. This is also used by the Seniors as their Senior Service Project. Each Senior is expected to complete a Senior Service Project which requires a minimum fifteen hours with one service and there needs to be a leadership component included.

At the beginning of the school year I was asked along with the rest of my Senior class to participate in the Hillcrest Fellows Program. When I heard about this opportunity I felt the urge to jump on this chance to help the youth of my school form into the leaders of its future.
Once the ball started rolling on this project those of us who were interested were given a list of teachers, the classes they taught and the time slots they need help in. We were told to pick three classes that would be able to fit in with our schedule, I chose PE, Art, and Math. Lucky for me, I got my first choice PE.
When Ms. Brickett, one of the PE teachers, first contacted me to let me know I would be working with her I was so excited that I contacted her immediately to set up a meeting. I began helping out with the PE classes October 7.