internship week 3A story that I think is worth telling about is my first day of internship. For those who truly know me, know that it scares me to be on my own and I have a hard time being a quiet person. I am the only intern from High Tech here.
I came in, introduced myself and asked for my mentor. The secretary, Chris, told me that jovanna, my mentor, would be right out so I sat down. I sat down and I had a cup of tea in my hand because it was cold that morning. When I went to take a drink of the tea, I spilled it all over my pants! I was so embarrassed and I freaked out because I had never met anybody in this office before and what were they going to think of me?! So I asked Chris for a tissue and she thought I was going to clean my nose or something because that's what a tissue is for but I tried drying up my pants so that my mentor, who I was meeting for the first time, wouldn’t think I was just some weird girl who spills stuff all over her. My mentor came out and I ended up telling her that I spilled tea on myself because it was that noticeable. She asked me “Are you that nervous??” and I just laughed Because I wasn’t nervous, my cup just decided to spill randomly that day. I was more nervous for the second day. I was nervous because I knew what I was going to be doing and I knew I wasn’t used to doing that kind of stuff. So from the first day on, I have been sitting at a computer for about six or more hours a day, trying to figure out how to edit this website (that’s my project) and make it look nice. I am more used to it now, but it still isn’t my favorite thing in the world.
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The qualities or characteristics that I see in the people around me that I want to develop in myself is being involved. Today I went to drop off some stuff at another center with my mentor and then we went to a meeting and I thought it was going to be some boring meeting about something I wouldn’t understand but the meeting was with a bunch of organizations that help families in need (of shelter most likely) and there wasn’t a second of it that I thought was boring. From the moment I introduced myself, I was excited, and I learned so much, I would do it again.
The reason I say that I see being involved in the people around me and I want to develop it in myself is because when my mentor, Jovanna, has told me she was going to meetings, I always thought they were just meetings (Boring) but they're meetings for a good cause and really informative. Jovanna is really involved with the community and all of these amazing organizations and I look up to that a lot. I think it's amazing how she keeps in touch with all of these organizations and wants to make the community a better place. I want to develop it in myself because I think it is such an amazing thing to be involved with the community and I am happy to be surrounded by people that are, with this internship. I am excited to see what other opportunities I get during this time that I am here because it made me happy to see what I did today in that informative meeting. I started my internship a couple of days ago and I have to work a lot of hours in one week. My schedule is from 8 AM to 4 PM, Monday through Friday. It is very quiet in the office, and I am not used to it because I am not a very quiet girl. It is weird to have gone from being in a room full of noisy teenagers everyday, to a silent office full of hard working people. I am used to being around noise and people my age but for the next month I will be sitting at a desk designing the new home page for the Chula Vista Community Collaborative website.
What strikes me most about my workplace is the kind of work I am doing. I was expecting to go out and help so many people because even by the name of the organization, that's what it sounds like I would be dong. The kind of work I am doing is office work. Which makes sense because I am in an office, but I didn’t expect it to be like this. Overall, I am not discouraged by the work I am doing, I just don’t think I am fit for this kind of work, considering the kind of person I am and the personality I have. Even though this is not at all what I expected, I will still do my best to complete the work I am given, put all of my effort forward, and be excited to be here everyday, in order to make the best out of this month that I will be here! I don’t think getting ready for exhibition will be hard because we already have everything done, we just need to be there and set it all up now. We are one of the first groups to have everything approved. The T-Shirt is the first thing we got approved and we made them and they were done way before hand so we got to sell a lot of them before anyone and we only have a few left and people are already ordering more sizes so we need to make more eventually. I am excited for exhibition and to get to talk to people about our project because I think a lot of people will want to learn more about the Transgender brain and how much it just affects the person themselves but other people too. “How can you occupy a space, be a body in a space, and yet be alienated from it at the same time?” This quote stood out to me because it made me see how going through something like this can really affect a person and make them struggle a lot. I do not think I will have a hard time talking to people because I am already good at talking to people and promoting things and I am excited for people to come look at our work. We have been working for a long time on this project and very hard too and I am excited for people to get to look at the hard work we put into this project. I hope people enjoy the positive messages they get to take with them on the water bottles we made. We bought a bunch of water bottles and relabeled them to put our labels that we made, printed, and cut, on the water bottles. Before we started this project, thought I wasn’t going to be that into it, but in doing my research, I learned a hell of a lot and I regret not wanting to do it at first. I thought just like any other person would if they hadn’t done research on transgender people. I would’ve still thought that being trans is a choice and it’s not. Transgender people don’t just choose to be transgender, it actually happens in their brain where they know they were not put in the right body and they have to change. I would believe that everyone is put in that specific body for a reason and we obviously don’t know the reason, but it's not true. “It’s not about being a new person, but being the person you were already meant to be.” This quote that I read in an article once about a girl that changed to a boy stood out to me because I agree with it. I don’t think that being transgender is about being a new person because in reality, you're still the same person but you just look different and become who you really were meant to be. Being transgender doesn’t mean you’re going to have a different personality or a new family and act different, but you just have a different body. You look different, you are different, physically. This week was kind of a stressful week even though it wasn’t meant to be. I think I stressed myself out more than I should have. My group and I accomplished a lot this week. We didn’t always communicate everything clearly, but things got done. Weather it was me not doing my t shirt poster in time or someone printing out way too many water bottle labels after we already has some printed. BUT, exhibition day was really good and I think that I really realized that if you’re doing a group project,YOU NEED TO COMMUNICATE. We got a lot done, but most of it was last minute because we didn’t talk about what exactly needed to get done, we just kind of did what we thought we had to do and it wasn’t always the right thing. I learned that a good group project will not have a good outcome if we don’t communicate. Thankfully this wasn’t the real exhibition, and I think we will do so much better at the NAMI Walk. “I’ve been on a treadmill, a treadmill of negativity!” This quote doesn’t exactly describe how my group and I were acting, but I feel like we showed this statement by not talking to each other about what needed to get done and getting things done late. We were on a negative track, not getting things done. This week I learned that no matter who you are, whatever you consider yourself to be, and what others see you as, sometimes you can’t even tell yourself who you are. I noticed this while writing slogans and quotes. For the past three days, I have seen that you can say the same thing in so many different ways and they will still mean the same thing. This is relevant to my topic because you always have to be careful when addressing a transgender person and making sure you use the right pronouns. My group and I watched a video about the girl in our book, Nicole, and she mentioned what happened to her at school a few times which was that people were telling her which bathroom she could and couldn’t use, not the one she identified with. It goes to show that people are taught, growing up, that girls and boys have to be a certain way when in reality that isn’t true at all. My slogan was “the body and the brain don’t always agree” and I have never realized it but it’s true. The parts of your body do not tell you who you are, your brain does. Just because someone has breasts does not mean they are a girl, and just because they have boy parts doesn't mean they’re a boy. Everyone is born with a brain but not one brain is alike. Just like we all think differently, we all are different. Whether that means we’re born a girl and know we are a girl, or are born looking like a girl but feel like we are supposed to be a boy. teen brain health presentation This week, I had to do a presentation on a topic I chose to advocate for about the brain. My topic was cerebral palsy. I chose to do the topic of Cerebral Palsy because I have a little brother with it. Cerebral Palsy is a collection of disorders caused by abnormal brain development or damage to the brain that occurs around the time of birth or early in life. When he was born, he was born three months early and he died for seven minutes. The doctors always said he wouldn’t be able to function like a “normal” person would. They always said that he wouldn’t be able to eat, speak, or function like I would. He is very much alive and can do pretty much everything “normal” people can do, except walk. He eats by himself, he can most definitely tell you something that he remembers from the day before. He walks, but using a walker and that's it. I absolutely hate the stigma around any people with disability, because it sucks to know that people are called stupid or dumb or anything mean because of something that isn’t their fault. They didn’t choose to be that way and they are more than capable than doing anything they want just like I am. They should not ever be put down because of something that they can't change. It can affect them greatly and make them do bad things. They shouldn’t have to go through more when they already go through enough. I liked the information that they gave to us. I think I am finding all of these visitors and all of this information very interesting and it is hard for me to find things interesting sometimes. I like and enjoy all of this information. At times it is hard for me to take all of it in because it is such good information but I find it easy to listen to and fun to experience. I think it is interesting how the brain is used for so much more than just remembering things and holding memories. It is used to help move your body and control how you feel and tell you when something is wrong. I think that all of the tests and free examinations they provide are all very interesting. I enjoyed hearing about what happens to the brain when people eat too much or too little and what happens when people do drugs or drink a lot of alcohol. I like how we can sometimes self-diagnose ourselves when something is wrong or how we can learn about how to do that stuff so that if it ever happens we know how to move forward with it and fix it. I like the fact that there is so many tests and different way that you can find out if something is wrong with you and that it's not always your fault if something is wrong with you and it's not always the worst thing in the world.
Campus crawl I’ve always been interested in going to college, but I never knew for how long or for what. I’ve just always been told that that's the right thing to do. I think that going for 4 years would be beneficial for me but I still don’t know what exactly I want to study. I want to do something that I can direct myself in and not have to work for others.
My favorite school that we visited was Cal Poly because it was just welcoming there and I liked the environment. I dont think I would attend Cal Poly though because they major more in engineering and I’m not really interested in that. My second favorite school was Santa Cruz, it was really pretty there but the environment there wasn’t the best, it was really quiet and I am not a quiet person at all. My third school I liked the best was Berkeley, it was very lively there and it was a cool place to see. It is a very cool school and I think it would be great to go there. My least favorite school was Monteray Bay. I did not really like that school at all. It was very lonely there and it seemed a lot like High Tech. I love High Tech but I don’t think that that college would benefit me in the real life. I didn’t like the fact that it looked so abandoned and it was so lonely. |
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