It
is close to the end of the semester and I feel like time has flown by! I have
enjoyed my internship so much and am sad to see it end. I do hope to still go
volunteer every once in a while however. This week at my internship was crunch
time. The big project I had been working on all semester is being tested this
week. The week before Thanksgiving was the first week that I was really out in
the community with the formal letters and brochure I had been working on. This
week I split my time fairly evenly with time at the shelter and out raising
awareness about the Mission. I have really enjoyed seeing success through the
people at the shelter. This week one of the boys staying here with his parents
finally got put back into school. His mom had to home school him for a while
until they found a place at the mission to stay. It was exciting to come back this week and hear about
school—he was really excited that he had made so many friends already. I got to help him with his math
homework (multiplication) and it was pretty incredible how good he was getting
at it. His parents have been working very hard the past few weeks and it has
been a pleasure to be able to be apart of their lives from when they first
arrived at the Mission to now where they have enough money saved to move into
their own place. Their story and many like them encourage me to put my best
effort into the project before me.
It
was very intimidating going up to business owner’s and churches asking if they
would sit down and let me present a little about the Mission to them. I thought
that people would be much more receptive to listening and helping out—but
surprisingly quite a few people did not even want to sit down and talk to me
but rather just leave the information on their desk. I had to learn to be
confrontational and firm without using excessive words to make it worth
people’s time. Overall, it was a great experience to go through, although
hard. In any career situation I
need to have the ability to be strong and not afraid of talking to superiors,
patients, and families even when they might be busy to hear me.
Excited
to finish up the semester and am thankful for the internship experience I have
had with the Mission.
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