In today's WLE blog I want you to analyze how different you felt working today verses how you felt your first day at your WLE. Specifically talk about how you have grown during your internship. In addition, talk about how your WLE project has helped that growth.
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Today was very hard for me. Knowing that it was my last day, i wasnt too happy. Over time, i have establishd relationships with each and every child. I feel like C5 has acceptd me as one of their staff, and the children considedred me as their teacher. I was either, Isis, or teacher. That makes me smile, because when i think about it, it makes me smile becuase i know that i had some part in what children learned. I know that they will remember. Today, i felt tired, as if i was forcing myself to stay up. I didnt have much energy, and my head was hurting all day. During circle time, Vashti(teacher), told everyone that today would be my last day. She asked anyone if they would like to say anything to me. Some kids raised their hands, and i got responss like, "Isis, i hope you had fun with us", "I hope you enjoyed it here and come back soon"," come back very soon isis", and "Im gonna miss you isis". I almost wanted to cry. Then Ayden(student), raised his hand and said "Umm, I love you Isis". It just feels so good to me because it makes me feel like im going to be missing out. Im going to miss wednesdays with the children of C5. I did analyze today, and how i worked verses the first day. The first day i was shy, and didnt really speak much. The kids didnt really know me, so i was a stranger in their eyes. I had to adjust to the children, which wasnt a bad thing, but for some children it was harder. Today, all the kids are used to having me help them, and talk to them, help them resolve problems and chasee them in the yard. It took a lot of responsibility for me to handle when working with the kids. People see kids acting bad and the asked me "Are you sure you want to do this?", and my answer is, yes! I love working with kids. I have that experience to work with them, teach them, and communicate with them better. I know these skills are relevant to my life because i have a 4 year old sister at home that i can continue to practice those skills on.
WLE project, for me, is basically like a review for me. I dont look at this experience as something that i have to do, i love doing this. I took this position seriously, and my project will help me understand what i have learned. and what children learn.
Today was a day out of the ordinary. I received an e-mail from my mentor, Kelly who said that she was not going to be in the office on my last day of internship. However, she did leave me a task list for me to do so it was almost like a normal day. Over the past twelve weeks, I have learned a lot at my WLE. I have become more professional and know how to act in a working environment.
My first couple of weeks, I was really nervous about how I should dress and act at my WLE. Working is a totally different experience than going to school. I would not have thought working in an office would be some unlike school. You have a lot of freedom and is not restrained to desk work all the time. There are many different tasks out there in the world that I did not know about. On my first day of WLE, I was afraid to ask questions because my mentor might think that I might be annoying or might think that I can't do a job without asking questions all the time. Although I would ask a question when I really had to, I would still be afraid. Now I am much more calmer and will ask questions if I really need to. I will ask the other office employees like Jonathon or Kris when I would not know what to do. It is much better to ask questions and correctly do your task than guess what you're suppose to do and get the task wrong risking a chance for yourself to start all over again. I learned that it is far better to understand the first time than restarting because you didn't know what to do. Another thing that was different from my first time here is the comfort level. I feel easy and able to fit in at the office now. I use to feel like a outsider in the office, but after the first couple of weeks, I have been able to fit in and have fun working with the rest of the office personals. Unlike most days, I felt a tingle of sadness while working today because it was my last day here and it will be a memorable experience for me. This was my very first working experience and I am going to enjoy the last of my hours left before I leave and not get to come back for a while. I would have to go back to school instead of working every Wednesday now...
Over the last couple of weeks, I have learned a lot about the marketing field in which I might want to do as my future job. There is a lot of work involved with being a marketer. To get the most out of your costumers at a non-profit organization, you need to find out about your customers. I found that one of the donors that donates to DonorsChoose.org is from NASA. Another thing that I have learned is that there is a lot of data required around an organization. I was surprised by how much the data base for donorschoose.org had. It had a copy of every proposal and of every school there was. Another thing that I learned was from my main project that I did for DonorsChoose.org. It was a marketing report for Donors Appreciation Day. I learned how to plan an event and how much care is involved in making an event happen. Events require a lot of planning money wise. You need to have a plan and budget to successfully make an event happen.
This is probably the most cliche thing to say, but it's true: I can't believe that today was my last day of WLE. Time has definitely flown by in a flash. I had put off reminding people that today was my last day prior to walking into the office this morning, and when I told them, they all said, "already?" That's exactly how I felt. 12 weeks is a long time, but it's also very short, considering WLE is only once a week.
Today was a lot different than most days. With the thought in the back of my mind that I was ending my internship, I wasn't too thrilled. Nonetheless, it was a productive day. I tried to make the most out of my time, making sure I left things on a positive note and that everyone got what they needed from me.
Comparing today's experience with my first day at WLE, I can see that my relationships have grown with the people I worked with. At first, I was only really used to working on my own, developing my own ideas, trying things out on my own. Over time, I learned how to communicate my ideas and how to brainstorm with people. I learned what to keep in mind when working with people who had little knowledge of digital media and also learned how to get on the same level as people who knew more about it than I did. I learned how to ask questions and who to look to when I had technical problems. All of these things came out of opening up to people and getting more comfortable in my working environment.
My WLE project has helped this growth, pushing me to create something in a way I have never created before. It is one thing to show off your talents by doing a different version of something you have already mastered, but to step out of your comfort zone and try to learn to do it in a completely different way is what sparks growth. It's like being on a whole new playing field. You're not sure what to do the first time, but at least you can say, "Been there. Done that." And that's what I hope to do the next time we have WLE during Senior year.
I know I have made a lasting impact on my church, and the best part is that I am really not saying goodbye to these people. I will continue to see them and to talk with them about how their work is going. The ideas I have brought to the table during my WLE will be there for months and possibly years to come. I have yet to see how the things I have done will be used in Bethel's future. In a rapidly advancing technological world, I know I have, in some way, made advances in Bethel's Multimedia, as well.
I will surely miss coming to the office on Wednesdays and being a solid part of the Creative Tech team. Not only have I been equipped with the skills to work with higher end technology than I have been using before, but I have also gotten the chance to work alongside people who watched me grow from time I was in my mother's womb. I will never forget this experience. It is something I can take with me on to the next level.
today, i felt like i was leaving something that i have worked with for a long time, but it didn't seem like it was that long at all. Time went by really quickly while i was working today at chibi-chan, maybe because i was so used to the daily things that the kids do there. but mostly, today felt like the first day to me because i was switched to another class for the day by Shana(director) because there was a shortage of teachers over there over at the Butterfly Class. i didn't know any of the kids and none of them would listen to me.
On my first day at Chibi-Chan, the kids didn't really want to talk to me about anything and if they had any problems, they wouldn't come to me, they would go directly to the teachers that they were used to see everyday, but i guess i can't blame them for that because i would probably do the same thing. because of this, i started to talk to the kids more and interact with them more, for example, when they sometimes had arguments over who gets to be Gabriella from High School Musical, i had to step in and tell them they had to take turns. this was where i started to apply something that i learned from the teachers while watching them. i told them that they had to take turns and had a time limit which was 5 minutes each, but as i observed this, most of the kids would forget about what they wanted so it was a good rule to establish that caused no arguments after.
I feel that after working at Chibi-Chan as a teacher's aid, i learned a number of valuable things. One of those things were to have A LOT of tolerance with kids because if you lose your temper in front of the kids, they won't come to you when they have problems anymore or they wouldn't even want to have a simple conversation with you. for example, one of the teachers yelled at the kids once for play fighting with each other and the kids felt like it was unfair. they didn't like that teacher for the whole day, but i heard from my mentor that on the very next day, they forgot about everything and seemed like nothing happened. i guess that kids don't hold grudges and they would just forget about something that they didn't like the very next day. it was a pretty valuable thing to know because it shows that even if you act harsh towards a child, they would be mad at you for a day, but on the very next day, they would forget about it. another thing that i learned was from teaching my project/lesson for WLE. it was the very first time that i taught a lesson to a group of children and i felt that i did a decent job. but after doing the project, my mentor told me that i could've done a little bit more preparing before the project but since it was my first project, it was something that i can improve on next time. as for myself, i learned that teaching a group of children takes a good amount of guts to do it because i was kind of scared but towards the end, i felt really comfortable because the kids started to ask me questions about what they didn't understand.
Since today was my last day, everyone at Chibi-Chan asked me if it was my last day and i told them yes. i felt like they already looked at me as a staff there and i felt that i really liked it there. my mentor even asked if i was going to cry when i leave today and i said sure...
Well on the first day I wasn't scared or nervous to attend my WLE. At first I didn't really know anything about the staff let alone what Children's Village overall goal was with their daycare. One of my biiggest struggles on my first day was taking care of the sysco order. This was difficult because I didn't know which class got what products and I didn't know how much oof the product they were getting. Another struggle for me was talking to my mentor about the projects we were gonna be doing, this was a struggle because there so much to be done I didn't know how to remember it all so I though if I didn't remember I wouldn't do it this was obviously not exceptable.
On my last day it wasn't crazy at all for me, it was exactly the opposite. I got all of the pictures I needed for my presentatons for the exhibtion all I have to do is download them into my account. No one knew it was my last day there but my mentor, I guess I should have told the rest of the staff. I say this because when everyone read my thank you letter I left in the office they were sad that I was leaving and upset that I hadn't told them. I have to say today was the best day I ever had at my internship because there was good wheather, the kids were especially good, and all of my pictures came out very good.
This Wednesday was a completely different experience that when I first started. I walked in a little bit early and the first thing I did was talked to my mentor and the other two people that work at my office for a few minutes. We had a casual conversation. This would have never happened on the first day. The first few days I worked there we would never talk about anything. I have realized to have a good workplace it helps to be able to socialize a little bit so you are comfortable with the people around you. This doesn’t work for everybody because some people might socialize to much, for me it is really helpful to be comfortable around the people I work with. Then I took some pictures for my project. We then did some maintenance stuff around the studio, this was where the big difference was. My mentor did not have to explain anything to me, where anything was how to put certain things away and to hook certain things up. I now know how to do all the basic stuff now. Overall I am way more confident working there, I am way more casual there and I know how to do all of the basic stuff there really well. Doing this project helped me realize that I learning by doing stuff hands on really helps me learn and I should do it more often. For now on when I am trying to learn something I am going to just go ahead and jump right in.
Well when I came in today it felt very different. This is because I woke up and went in the District Attorney’s office in the mind set that it was my last day. This last day was sad but at the same time it was rewarding. It was rewarding because I realized that I had actually completed something that I started off with in the beginning. I noticed that I changed as a person throughout this whole experience. I became more confident. The beginning started off with a phone call what was soon to be my mentor. The mid point of the experience was getting educated on that field of work and meeting new people. The end of it was the start of a new transformation that would add to changing my life forever. This experience was really great. I went in thinking that I would love to do a lot of office work and that it would be very easy. It was actually more challenging than I thought and that taught me to never under estimate. I remember at one point of time when I was really quiet at my internship. This led to a conversation with my mentor and I. She told me that the way I present my self in a workplace is very important. She also told me things about body language and etc. That talk we had really helped me. It made me want to change. I knew that I couldn’t change over night, but I also knew that I could start working on a change. The first day I came in I kept to my self and did my work because I didn’t feel comfortable in the work environment. As time went on I started to interact with the other interns, but I still had trouble interacting with my mentor. I don’t know why but it was difficult. As time went on my perceptions of my mentor changed.
The last day was great my mentor took me and the other intern to lunch. I also made a card for my mentor. I was very proud to give the card to my mentor because to my standards it came out great. I was happy that she liked it. I am going to miss those Wednesday’s dressed up in suits and feeling important. I am going to also miss working upstairs in the record room with Tawanda and Syrus. They were great. One thing that I overcame that I am proud of is my fear of taking elevators. I used to hate taking elevators because I felt so claustrophobic. Now I can take them by myself because of all the elevator trips I had to take running around files. I’m so proud of myself!!!
my last day was barely different from any other day at my internship. i came in, plugged in my computer and got to work on some projects that pat had to work on for the day. In the beginning of these 12 weeks i probably would have been asking pat a question every 10 seconds about how to invert something, or how to make a layer mask, but at this point i ask questions pretty rarely. My first designs took several sessions to get just right, but i completed a hat design and a couple t shirts. I felt more confident about being able to complete a task when pat told me what to do, and i feel like pat felt more confident that i would be able to pat took me out to an unusually classy lunch at a local sushi restaurant. TO BE CONTINUED.......
Today was an incredible day. Out of all the days I have been there today I realized how much the real like having me there. Kathy is the type of person that doesn't show too much emotion, but yesterday I saw a different side to her and everyone else at my internship. They all seemed sad that it was my last day. We celebrated my last day, they bought me lunch and we had a little go away cake. Mmm...it was tasty. But today started like any other day came in said good morning to everyone and whipped up the frosting. But by the time it got to splitting and filling cakes there were only a few and I thought because there wasn't to much to do that the day was going to take for ever since I stayed till five today, but I was so wrong, I ended up having conversations with everyone and really getting to know everyone at my internship. Today was completely different from my first day because my first day was filled with questions being asked to me and me asking questions. Today was filled with so do you think this is what you want to do questions. I remember the first day I was nervous and wasn't sure if I was going to be able to handle the job. I always thought I was going to mess up until I realized that I was there to learn, but it took a while until I realized that. But my first day I remember doing little designs here and there and it was hard to learn a lot of different designs on the first day. I was getting nervous. But I remember doing just fine and how everything turned out ok. I remember how when Kathy was teaching me different things she would take my hand and show me how to do it the right way by guiding my hand. Having this internship and doing what I’ve done I feel I have grown more responsible and have learned how to manage my time a little bit better. Before this I did not have a job and now that I started here I felt more confident about going off to work somewhere and learn how to do what they do. I’m really glad I chose to work at such a great internship and have a great work experience.
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