For my site visit I decided to go to a Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting. The meeting I choose was held at St George 's Episcopal Church on 915 North Oakland Street in Arlington. The meeting was on Saturday February the 27th at 6:30 pm. Alcoholics Anonymous are based on a twelve step program designed to help people with their addictions. It is open to anyone no matter their religious affiliation, age, gender, etc. and supports itself through donations. It has started to become widely known and there are meetings being held in many different countries around the world. The first step for me was to find a site to visit. I decided on an AA meeting because it is probably one of the best known programs that are dedicated to helping people with …show more content…
It was rather difficult to figure out how to get into the church since all the doors were locked. However with the help of a man, who also was going to the AA meeting and also did not know how to get in, we figured it out. I had a moment of shock when I saw that the sign in front of the church was in spanish and I feared that the meeting might be in spanish as well. Since I don 't speak spanish, that would have been unfortunate for me. Luckily the meeting was in english however and I didn 't have to find an alternative. The meeting was located in a room that was off to the side. It was a pretty big room and when I arrived there were already a lot of people around. The room was setup with multiple rows of chairs forming a semicircle around a long table. I had heard that different members take turns leading the meeting and because the table looked like a place where the person leading the meeting would sit I introduced myself to the women standing next to it. As it turned out she was indeed the leader of the meeting that day and when I asked her if I could stay and observe the meeting she told me it was fine since the meeting was an open meeting. She also told me that I should introduce myself to the group when she would ask for anyone visiting the meeting