You will write a 2-page (double-spaced) journal entry from the perspective
of your mentor. Imagine you are your mentor and you are entering thoughts
into a journal entry about your new intern (this would be you).
Try to imagine what goes through his/her mind through the course of the
entire day observing you work.
-What do you think goes through your mentor's mind as you walked in to work
this past Wednesday?
-What things about you do you think impresses your mentor?
-What things about you do you think you mentor isn't impressed by?
-What things about you do you think your mentor wants to learn from you?
-What stories about you do you think your mentor tells about you to friends,
colleagues and family. Tell those stories.
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As I hear the phone ring and know it is around the time my intern is going to arrive, I am somewhat relieved and glad. When she walks in to work, I gave her my usual welcoming smile and updated her on today’s new schedule because she came in on a different day to make up for last week. She was really listening and I’m really happy to have a helping hand for the day. I started her out by giving her a review of what she could do, and she went right into it without hesitation. I think she’s really into this internship.
I think I impress my mentor by showing her my patience with children and how much I try to interact with them even though sometimes they wouldn’t notice I’m there. I always try to communicate with the children, especially after they come to me for help. I try and help them solve their problems between each other, and I do whatever I can to help them.
I think my mentor wants to know more about myself. Since we don’t communicate a lot other than discuss about what to do next for the WLE, there’s really nothing else that we talk about, which is bad, I know. I think she’s curious on what I do outside of the WLE and what kind of things would interest me, other than children.
I think my mentor would talk about how I work with the children during my WLE to her colleagues, friends, and family. Especially to her colleagues, she would probably talk about how I work, what I do good, or what I need to improve on. Things like: She would always come in on different times, but she’s always on time, and she does everything I ask her to, she doesn’t hesitate to help. She should work on her communication with the children, and try to interact with all the children than just a couple so she can understand more of them and get to know them better. I think she really cares about the children because one time she saw a little girl in the class who started crying and she went to her immediately to find out what was wrong. She couldn’t really help her, but she was trying, and I know that it was a challenge for her because she wasn’t sure what to do to make the girl feel better and forget about her problems. But the good thing she did was stick with the girl every now and then to check up on her for that day. I think the girl felt better because she knew that someone cared about her. I understand that it is tiring to be around super active children for 6 to 8 hours a day, but I know that she is slowly adapting to it. I notice sometimes that she is really tired, especially during the afternoon, around 2 o’clock, but she really tries to stay awake and attentive for the children.
hm...today's paper's sodoku...hm...i made three sales today...oh, yvette's here. wednesday. didn't see her last week. "hello, how are you today? have you eaten yet?...yes, i have." what do we need help with? let's get her working. "well, today, we need to clean the store and rearrange that whole section of the store. you clean the glass and i'll vacuum." let's see. vacuum vacuum. "you done with all the glass?" well, decide on where to put this and make an arrangement for those." she has an eye for design but still has a lot to learn. she's helpful though. she seems like she's willing to learn. she's taking this internship seriouly. she's getting along with everybody well. vacuum vacuum. "what do you mean there's nothing else to put there? you're the boss today. you decide." i've told her before that nobody will judge her designs or decisions, not if she's working with me. she's a fast learner but she still needs to work on her customer interaction. she seems kind of shy. i think it may have to do with the fact that she doesn't know much about each item, after all, they are antiques. her first project was done nicely. the jewelery display. it looks nice. i always told her to stop and take a step back to look at the design. if it looks dorky, it probably is. i really hope she's getting the most out of this experience...
Hey look here comes tech support. I wonder what I have on the list to fix today? I have to get my invoices organized and learn how to save them so I can keep my heading. I wonder what else we are going to do today? We have to work on the business cards and the website; I can’t wait to have those things! We will be working in 8c were going to be pulling those wires around the framework. Also we have to go to NHT and replace some fuses and route a ground wire from that violation unit, and make sure it doesn’t have more than 360 degrees of bend. I am so glad Taylor is here today; my computer is still acting up and I need some help. I love it when he is here; my computer problems become funny memories. We also have to get my phone upgraded today, it is Jurassic. Oh, I can’t forget to have Memo take him down to locate the faulty wiring in the basement. I wish I could get him to come to finishing school in England. He should learn the little things about how to be more gentlemanly. I need him to teach me how to get my pics from my camera and use my new jump drive, and I also need training in MS word and how to use explorer, I can’t forget to get my laptop out and start using that instead of the office computer for my personal stuff, can’t have the Lembis seeing all my family pictures and stuff. It was so funny that time my TV remote broke and he got me a giant remote, that thing is great. I remember that time we got lost in the housing development in El Cerito and we ended up spending 3 hours looking at houses. Well I guess he has to go now, I wonder which teacher is giving him all this math homework that he has to go do?
Meeting at 10:00, update from Julian and Calvin at 12:00, other meetings 12:30 to..... WHERE ARE MY BREAKS? Well the kids aren't here yet. Good, I might just be able to have a few quite seconds alone to myself, and without my own kids bothering me. "1 hour passes" I can now here them. Dozens upon dozens of kids out side my office right now. Either meeting with their friends, their teachers, or doing something else I can't fathom up. Oh well... might as well head down to the yard to rally them up and do morning announcements. "1 hour later" And here come the phones "RING... RING..." Either it's a parent or it's a teacher. Either way I hope it's not as bad as I think it is. Julian must be in the AV room waiting for me by now, I'll take care of a few things here then meet up with him to start his day. "Another hour later" Huh... who's that? Wait a min... ah nuts I forgot about Julian! Well he's coming here so he must have fininshed the odd jobs given by the other teachers. "Hello Julian, how are you? Me? Well lets just say it's been hectic so far. Calvin is in Spanish class... ok, well we'll see him later then. I'll bring down the 8th graders for you. Meet in the AC room for right now. See ya." Good kid, helps out, his mother is a different story though. Dang, red heads always give me the creeps.(By Julian: If you think he's being offensive in this part, truth is he isn't. Him and my mom get along well. It's more of an inside joke. Just to get it out there) Ms. Cody, can you please send down... ok, thank you. WEll, back to work. (Near the end of the day) That was tiring, well at least the day is at a close. "Here guys, I'll sign you're time sheet. Ok, se you guys next wednesday." Nice to see those two helping out around here. Who knows what the tech situation would be like around here if theyu didn't help. Need to start thinking about hiring them next year. And for that summer job too.
The first thing that always struck me about Ian is that he's very prompt. There's not been a day so far that he's been late, and he's always been in a few minutes early, eager to work. I really appreciate his interest in the publishing business. He's naive and he knows it, but he's always very interested in expanding his mind. He asks questions, is inquisitive about most everything Jason and I have to say, and always brings a positive attitude along with him when he shows up for work Wednesdays.
It kind of makes me think about how I was when I was his age. I can see a lot of similarities between me at 17, and him. I'm sure I would have acted much the same as he is: thirsty for knowledge, eager to do a good job, in awe of everything. I'm really impressed at how much he cares about his job at Night Shade, and I can tell that he wants to impress. It's cute, because in a way I can see him looking up to me. That's flattering, especially knowing that I'm probably not the greatest influence in the world. Heck, I'm hardly an adult myself.
Oh, that's the doorbell. Must be him. I've got a lot of packaging for him today. If he's disappointed about, he sure doesn't show it. It's good to have him with us; brings me back to old times, and it's good to see a cheery face around here at least once a week. I look forward to keeping him with us.
Oh my gosh Farrell. My mentor doesn't watch me work, doesn't really hang out with me I have no idea what he thinks of me (us). He kind of just leaves us while he works on other things. So, technically all that would be going through his head would be how to debug this and that, something entirely different...
Oh, it is Wednesday today. Let's see what I have in my planner. Have an appointment at 10:00AM, have a meeting at 3:00PM, and David is going to be here too. Now, I have to make a list of what can he do today. He will be here in 30 minutes. I am sure he has plenty stuff to do at office but I will probably talk to teachers if they need some help. I like him, he is a good, smart kid, always comes on time, does his work quick, very quick. It's good to have kids like that. I don't have anything against him. But sometimes, I don't have time for all that, and he is sitting there and not asking for a job, so I have to come and ask him "David, do you have anything to do right now?" By his reaction, I can see that he just finished something and tries to relax but I want to get the most out of his work. Office is pleased with him, he does everything quick and right. But the thing I don't like about him is that he is not really talkative whether it is to students or teachers or even the phone. He doesn't like answering the phone. The reason might be that he doesn't speak Armenian and most of people who call school speak Armenian, so he probably doesn't feel comfortable saying "umm.. I don't speak Armenian". What I also noticed, that a lot of teachers come to him, start speaking Armenian but he doesn't understand what they say and has a kind of embarrassing-uncomfortable look on his face. He recently had an interview with me and it went pretty good. He was asking me questions and I was answering. But when I asked him last week, did he write an essay already, he said that he didn't because nobody else did, which upset me a little bit because it feels like we just wasted time. But he did say that he is going to do it later.
I recently met his advisor, Ms Farrell, and I liked her. We discussed possible projects about this whole internship program.
Overall, I think it is a good thing that I have David in this school on Wednesdays because even though his help is not major, it still saves some time for different people (teachers, office) but not me, unfortunately.
Well, us interns are in a different room than the cool kids. Quite isolated for most parts of the day. It is of course not like we are limited to that room and that room only. We move around as we please I suppose, we just don’t. Sometimes we go into their room to get chocolate or water, but sometimes also to ask questions or request a group meeting.
So if we need Art we go knockin’ on the door and he’ll be right out or quite literally, the opposite; right in. I think that Art enjoys the teenage feedback. I guess that our teenageness will help the company out by using our infinite wisdom of the social networking phenomenon.
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