Write a one-page reflection (double-spaced) on what you did this week (5/9)
at your internship. It needs to be creative and interesting for teachers and
mentors to read. We do not want to know how long it took you to get there or what
you ate for lunch.
9 comments:
felicia
On this visit at my internship i was putting up the final touches on my final project in the display window at my internship. I had started out just going to have a relaxed day and to just add some pictures and my artist statement into the display window and ended having one of the mot exciting days there. I got to interact with some of the medical students that do a program with Cindy where they go around to the bedsides of the patients and they create art with them. It was interesting to see how she interacts with her support group, and the different ways she can express something with the other students and people who are also learning new things. it was nice to finally get to really in depth experience some of the thigns that Cindy does on a daily basis. It made me want to do some of the projects that the interns were doing and to get more involved in what was going in with Art for Recovery. This week was an overall good week for me being at my internship. It makes me not want to leave and stay at my internship for a little while longer!
My WLE day (May 9th) was as fun and exciting as the previous one. This time Maria came along because John and I needed her to help us film during our projects. John and I did circle time together in the morning. The kids were really quiet and in good behavior that day. It was great. Since Sunday is Mother's Day, John and I were trying to find a book that related to that holiday. Unfortunately the closest book we came upon was a book with a child animal and a mother animal. But John's mentor came to us and suggested another book. We asked the children what they wanted to read more, and they picked the book that the mentor suggested. So we read the book called Mud Mountain or something, and it was a really long story with complicated words that I don't think the preschool kids would understand much from it. There was this word that I couldn't pronounce, but it was a name "Alphamalisland." After the story, the children obediently listened and lined up to wash their hands or go outside to play. Maria was filming the children and she got some good shots of each of us interacting with the kids. Then after outdoor play, my mentor had to do something so she asked if we could help do project as well. The project was Mother's Day themed. They made heart-shaped Mother's Day cards with their mother's photos in the card, popped-up. I got closer to two kids today: Hyuma and Yukei. They barely talk because they speak Japaneses more than English. Time went by really quick and it was already nap time. After getting the kids to sleep, or at least making sure they don't get up and walk around, there were other kids who wanted to get a book. Yukei asked me to read him books. I read around 3 and I got tired. I had a sore throat that day so it wasn't that great, but I finished the 3 books with him, and he went back to his cot. This WLE day felt a bit short because it went by so fast.
This week I worked on my WLE project. I went to 6th grade class and talked to them about the project, gave out the handout with directions. Then we went to computer lab to search for pictures. When we were done with searching for them, we went to the classroom, sat down and chose pictures we want for the collage. The class was over, so i assigned homework for them - to answer the questions on the sheet, so they will be ready to present on next Wednesday. Overall, it went very well. Of course, it wouldn't go that well without a teacher because she was "calming down" the class. After this, I don't remember what I did... Next week, I am going to finish my WLE project
I got there a little late today. I woke up a half hour later than expected and had to rush myself to get there. With MUNI not running the 38 Geary much, it took a long time till I managed to get the bus after another half-hour of waiting. I get there at about finding Calvin and helping him with his current task. We then head back to the AV room to come up with a plan for the 8th grade project and to gather everthing needed together. We then work on some odd jobs till the lunch period in which we meet up with the 8th grade. We go out for lunch right before knowing we would have gone longer with out lunch due to us having to be with the 8th graders longer today. We again went out to Jack in the Box for the(estimated) 5th time. We meet up with the 8th graders later and help them film footage for their/our project. We then leave and retreat again to the AV Room for another meeting. We rest for a few minuets and then do some more odd jobs for the school. We stick with mother till seven o'clock. Calvin's father gives me a ride home and I go back to sleep after already having a decent dinner and my self not having felt that well. In which I find myself sick the next thing I know(the next time I wake up).
This week I worked at my internship for about 2 hours and then I got sick and had to go home. I did nothing interesting this week. I just worked on my project a little bit. Jessieka kept getting interrupted by phone calls and people walking in to talk to her. I am very worried about the project because I still need to build Amer-Braz’s website and I still need to get the load box for my project and set up the workshop. I have been very grateful to have Wednesdays to do the internship, I would have gone crazy the last few quarters without them, It is like having a vacation in the middle of the week. I am glad to have had the experience of working at Amer braz construction. But I am also glad that it will be over so I can be done with this project.
i did not go to my intern ship thsi week because i was feeling ill.
This was probably the most monotonous of all the days I've had to come in. Same routine: arrived at about ten, hung with Jason while he worked and I sat thumbing through some of their collector's edition books. We talked, as always.
Jeremy didn't show up until slightly later than we'd expected, so Jason then assigned me a job. He was in the midst of scanning an old copy of a science fiction book by reputed scifi author David Drake, and so he told me to pick up where he'd left off. Basically, I flattened the book, scanned it, selected its text on the screen, then turned the page. The reason why we needed this scanned was because the book had gone out of print in the '80s, and Night Shade had just signed a contract with the author to get the rights to reprint it. So here I was, scanning the whole 376-page novel, waiting two minutes for about every two pages to go through. Like I said, monotonous. But then again, it was kind of cool, because once this book comes out, I can say, "Hey, I'm the reason why there are words in there." So yeah, not a bad end result.
Either way, it was kind of sluggish. Once I was done with that, I got assigned some more orders to do, and so I did them. Jeremy and I conversed. Kind of a chill day, if but a little dreary. After I was done with the orders, Jeremy and I began brainstorming some more on my project, put some ideas together. We came up with some pretty good ones, and decided what we should have done by the next time I come in on the following week. All in all, pretty productive, if I do say so myself.
During the morning of march ninth, i had a very comforting and warm conversation with my mentor for about an hour, and it made me think alot about the things i may want to do when im older, but even more, the things ill be doing in my life that i didnt even realize i cared for, or had a place for.
Most of my time on the WOW farm is spent doing a number of phyical activities or being a helping hand. We had to sort compost at the main farm i work on. It was really disguitsing at first, everything was molded beyond what my normal understanding of mold is, and smelled horrible, But then one of my co-workers lit up some incense and i beegan to see the compost in a different way. It was really cool, because i saw the compost as the communities heelp in making the farm work right, they give us their compost we grow vegetables out of it, and thee community makes more compost that sustains the farms natural fertilizer.
This took up most of the first half of the day, along with weeding, thinning carrots, and occasionally snacking on the ripeneed sweet peas off the vines.
At lunch, i ussually enjoy home made meals with vegetables from the farm. One of the girls i work with, lesli, made fennel soda from the licorish tasting fennel plant, and we all drank it with our lunch. Afteer lunch i ussually decide to either go to the greenhouse on 17th and mandela, but i havent been to the greenhouse in a while and ussually stay at the WOW farm by the house. I like to stay on the WOW farm during the second half of the day because 7th graders from a middle school come to help to on wednesdays, in the late afternoon. I like working with the younger kids on the farm because i like to see how i maybe look to the girls i work with, but also because i like being able to excercise the things ive leearned on the farm, and help them with things they may not know.
Around thee end of the day, the sun begins to set and i relax with leslie for my time remaining helping with the last few things before i leave.
Sleepy bart ride home.
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