Training

I have done my training in Jurgis Matulaitis Day center for children. We had four weeks for this training: to analyse the case of child we have chosen and of course to improve ourselves as a future social workers.

In that Day center where I have done my training at the moment are nine children who are coming regularly. They all are about 9-10 years old. Children usually are coming at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and they are going home at about 7 o’clock in the evening. On Mondays we have sports activity and after that we are doing homework with children. From Tuesday to Thursday we are doing homework with children and after that we have some activities: social skills, preparing meal and arts. Only Friday is different because this day is only for playing – children don’t need to do their homework and they are really happy about it. If they have spare time between doing their homework and other activities, they are playing some games with us.

In this Day center are working two women – Violeta and Sigita. Usually there are coming few volunteers who are helping for them.

The first day I came there I thought I will go crazy because children were so naughty and they were not listening to me at all! But day after day they started to trust me and now we miss each other a lot.

In my opinion this training was very necessary for me because I understood how hard is to do social work and help people who have lots of problems and how important is social work for our society. I wasn’t sure that I want to be a social worker one day and to be honest, after this training I am quite confused. Of course it was first training for me and I don’t gave up – time will show what I will do in the future, maybe I will be a social worker…