"Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor." -Donovan Bailey

Our class has just recently got a peer mentor, Lee. Lee is a very real person, she tells it like it is, and that’s what I like most about her. She is an inspiration to me; she has gone through so much in her life but turned her life around and is now going to graduate college. Shows us that we can do whatever we want if we have determination. She has definitely brought a positive outlook to our class. One class we did a laughing exercise that made us give off positive energy by laughing.

Lee wants us to learn about ourselves and gives us activities to do that help us with that such as writing our priorities and an ‘I am” poem. Some of us had a hard time with these activities because we do not know ourselves that much. We are still searching for who we really are.

It is nice to have a peer mentor because we are able to relate to them, because they are students here at Southern Connecticut State University just like us. Having Lee in our class adds more college level thinking and responses. She is always willing to give her opinion and express herself. I have learned a lot from Lee. She has taught that I should use more creative thinking rather than having such an original answer. That I should think outside the box.