I’ve always hated being alone or doing anything alone just because it makes me uncomfortable.
For the past month, I interned at Chula Vista Community Collaborative. An organization that works through 5 elementary schools to help families that need support in different aspects of having a family. I worked in the admin building and my project was to update and reformat the organization's website. The admin building doesn’t help directly with the families but we were the office side that got all the referrals, calls, and went to all the meetings. I sat at a desk and had to research how to use the program they had to update the website and make proposals to show my ideas of how I wanted the website to look.
My second week there, I was put at the reception desk to answer calls and help direct people that came in. I struggled a lot for the first two weeks, being alone and having nobody to talk to or be comfortable asking for help with. It was hard for me to just sit there and work the whole day because I struggle with even sitting still for so long. I wanted to listen to music and move around but I had to sit there for up to 8 hours a day, five days a week and work on something I had to figure out myself how to do.
After a few days I started realizing that this was going to be my life for a whole month so I just had to do it. I had to wake up everyday, get dressed, go to work and be focused the whole day. Nobody was going to be there for me to distract myself and that was okay. I learned that I can work alone and I work well when I really focus and know what I need to do. I didn’t like my internship at first and I thought I was never going to like it but it wasn’t that bad at all and I kind of want to go back now that it’s over.
For the past month, I interned at Chula Vista Community Collaborative. An organization that works through 5 elementary schools to help families that need support in different aspects of having a family. I worked in the admin building and my project was to update and reformat the organization's website. The admin building doesn’t help directly with the families but we were the office side that got all the referrals, calls, and went to all the meetings. I sat at a desk and had to research how to use the program they had to update the website and make proposals to show my ideas of how I wanted the website to look.
My second week there, I was put at the reception desk to answer calls and help direct people that came in. I struggled a lot for the first two weeks, being alone and having nobody to talk to or be comfortable asking for help with. It was hard for me to just sit there and work the whole day because I struggle with even sitting still for so long. I wanted to listen to music and move around but I had to sit there for up to 8 hours a day, five days a week and work on something I had to figure out myself how to do.
After a few days I started realizing that this was going to be my life for a whole month so I just had to do it. I had to wake up everyday, get dressed, go to work and be focused the whole day. Nobody was going to be there for me to distract myself and that was okay. I learned that I can work alone and I work well when I really focus and know what I need to do. I didn’t like my internship at first and I thought I was never going to like it but it wasn’t that bad at all and I kind of want to go back now that it’s over.