BBBS

Throughout my years at Muskingum Universtiy, I have been in many clubs including game club, Circle K, and Fish Out of Water, but no club has been greater than Big Brothers Big Sisters. Big Brothers Big Sisters is a mentoring club where a big, someone who is older like a college student or adult, is paired with a little, elementary or middle school kid, and the big spends time with that little. There are lots of kids living at their grandparents whose real parents are not there, or maybe there is just a single mom or dad, whose other parent is not there. The kid needs a role model. Someone they can talk to, go to, and feel safe with. I started with Big Brothers Big Sisters freshmen year and I was working with a little kid named Will. Me and Will’s friendship grew into something that is extremely special. I started to spend extra time with him after New Concord Elementary, where Will went, let out. I would pick him up and play with him on the playground. As our friendship grew, he started opening up more to me. Our friendship grew stronger and stronger each week. Eventually, his grandparents allowed him to go up to Muskingum University with me. We would play for hours on facebook, eating in the dining hall, and we would play with my friends at Muskingum. His birthday is September 24^th and for the majority of the parties we would go bowling. Will loved bowling and he always had fun. He lived with his grandparents and has two dogs. We would always go to the Chess Center events whether it was game night or magician. No matter what we did we would always have fun doing it. We would always like spending time with Tasha, one of my friends at Muskingum. She would come down with me a lot to see him with me and we all had fun together. We also liked to go to Circle K and get Polar Pops. Will was a very energetic and very smart kid. Junior year, I won School Based Big Brother of the Year not knowing that they even had awards for BBBS. It is probably my greatest award. Sadly, his mom chose to take him to Reynoldsburg to go to school there. Even though I hardly ever see Will, I will always have the memories. Someday I hope to see him again, and we will get to hang out like we used to.