Monday, May 11, 2009

Week 2 - Getting better acquainted with your site


In my next week of internship my mentor asked me to make copies of work sheets for the little kids and they can use it after they finish their home work if there is few minutes left and after they leave I help up to clean the class room then I start to organize every thing and I go to my mentor and I ask him would you sign my card please and if he asked me what did you do then I tell him what did I do today.




You're off to your second week interning and I suspect you're learning a great deal about the ins and outs of your site. This week's writing task involves how you document the work you'll be doing each day. In other words, "How do you keep good records of the work you do each day?" This is an extremely important part of your internship and you’ll need to use your journals each and every day. Take a look at this story: An intern came to me this morning and complained that he wanted a new site. I responded "Why?" He began to tell me how he had asked his mentor if he could use an office computer. She said, "Sure, no problem." So this young man proceeded to do some work on the computer for an hour or so. At the time he was about to leave and get his time card signed, his mentor approached him and said, "What have you done today?" He paused, sort of amazed that she was asking him that question. To make matters worse, his mentor didn't ask the question in a kind way, and the intern felt pretty upset. He had been working all day at his internship site, but he wasn't quick to respond with a list of things that he'd done. He left the internship that day feeling really dejected. He wished he Had not been there at all. It was a sad day.




I learned two things from this story first don't do any school work at you internship, and if my mentor asked me what did I do at this day I will just answer hem/her, and it is not a big deal if my mentor asked me about what did I do by some way, and if I did something wrong, then I will apologise to my mentor, check hands and I will say good bye.

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