Week 5 and Beyond - Weekly Vocabulary Assignments Post Title: Weekly Vocabulary

Your internship sites are rich with new and unfamiliar terms or phrases. One of the goals of the internship is to further develop your English language proficiency. Once every two weeks, you are to publish a post about new vocabulary words or phrases that you have encountered or picked up "on the job." There is a template provided below for you to use each week. Your goal is at least five each post, totaling 20 by the end. Please give the word/phrase, what it means, and the context in which you came across it.

TEMPLATE:
1. Word / Phrase: Prevaricator

Meaning: A person who speaks falsely; liar.

Context: Here I am, sitting in Internship class with Stephen on my left, Kevin on my right, studying for the SAT. There it was, prevaricator, on page 6 of the SAT guide.

2. Word / Phrase: Caustic

Meaning: Capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.

Context: I was reading something of the Internet about fire, and there I saw the word Caustic and with many other words too.

3. Word / Phrase: Acculturation

Meaning: The process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group.

Context: I was at the Internet and I type vocabulary words and there was a list of words I did not understand and I decided to take this one because it sounded professional.

4. Word / Phrase: Diachronic
Meaning: Studies at the development of a language over a period of time.

Context: I was on Google and I was taking a survey and I saw the word Diachronic and I look it in the dictionary, while I was doing my survey.

5. Word / Phrase: Abrogate

Meaning: To abolish, repeal.

Context: I was online again on the math SAT and I saw the word Abrogate and I looked it up on Google.

Week four

Title: The End of the Fourth Week of Internships



PART 1

What is it?

I work in a place call Dwa Fanm Department.
It's a place where women help other women who are being domestically violated by their husbands or boyfriends.

What kind of business is it and what kind of work do the professionals do there?

What we do, is that we help women get a layer, actually they have their private lawyers.
We help them translate things in English, because all the women are Haitians.
We help them file immigration paper.
They also help teenagers who are pregnant or facing the problems teenagers are facing today.
They also have a dwelling where they put the women for few months or one year, until they can settle by themselves.

Where is it? What is the neighborhood like compared to where our school is?

It's in Atlantic Avenue. the neighborhood is loud, because we have schools there.
And when school ends we see all the kids making a lot of noise , just here by my school.

Tell a little about your mentor.
My mentor is a woman.
Her name is Tia and she is short, dark skin. She is also pretty.
She is very nice, she knows how to ask me to do things for her in a proper manner.
She's patient, cool and very smart.

What kinds of things have you done so far?

What I have done is that,
I answer the phone, fixing file, help them to move the offices.
I also went to the dwelling where I had to wait for some people to fix the sink.
I have also helped a lady translate a letter from Creole to English to send to her son, because her son is in jail.
I was so happy to help her, because she seem so sad. And before she left I prayed for her and told her to pray hard for her son.

What were some of the highlights of the fourth week? (Memorable moments, cool things, incredibly difficult things...)

One memorable moment is helping that lady I wrote about below.

PART 2

When do you leave school?
I leave school around twelve.
How long does it take you to get to your internship?
It takes me like 30 minutes to get to my internship, sometimes 35.
When do you arrive at home?
I arrive home sometime at 7:30 or 6:00 sharp
What is your schedule? (What days do you work and for how long each day?)
It depends, I do not have a schedule, I stay for more hours when I feel like staying and want to earn the extra hours.
Who are the two people that can sign your time card? (Your mentor and the additional person)
Two people that can sign my time cards are my mentor Tia and Christine one the person who works with the girls employment programs.

Part 3

How was the fourth week different than the third week?
The third week all I did was fixing boxes of paper
and fixing paper and the forth week I fixed papers again, but I did answer the phone when it ring.
What is something that you really like about the internship?
To be honest I like nothing about my internship , maybe only my mentor and another lady I'm working with and the worse part I only know my mentor's name.
What is something you dislike about the internship?
The fact that I fix boxes of paper almost everyday makes me sleepy and frustrated and I often feel bored to death.
Who Else's blog have your read and commented on?
No ones.

week 3 short story

For today's post, your job is to describe as many internship tasks as you can. Since you began three Mondays back, what have you been doing? Paint a picture of a typical day in the life of an intern. What are you doing from the time you start until the time you leave? Are you working alone or with a group of people? Who are you working with? In what kind of space are you working?
Turn your description into a short story, diary, or journal entry that creates a picture of the life of you, a high school intern. Use your journal entries from each day to make your story more interesting and full of details.

Everyday when I get to my internship , I arrive 30 minutes earlier and when it's one my friends and I we get like 3 boxes of papers to fix them in order.
Sometimes it would take us like 3 days or 4 days to finish them.
We do other stuff like answering the phone and go to the dwelling which I found really boring.
And I do not see why the previous interns wanted to go the dwelling.
We also help them move the offices .
I have done so much things, which I found so boring.
This litte story is call My boring days in internship.

Week 2!! My development Week!

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 hadn’t been there at all. It was a sad day.

So what's the lesson of this story? In your post for today, answer the question. Create a plan that you think will be the best plan to make sure that you are able to explain to your mentor at the end of a day, week, or month, what you’ve been accomplishing. What about being able to record all the things you're learning and doing so that you can write an essay in April about your internship? What can you do?


I think the moral of this story is that you should be ready to answer any questions asked by your mentor. And the best way to do this is to make a list of what we do each day in our internship in a piece of paper and give it to your mentor at the end of the day so that she will see how hard you have worked today. we should also use what we wrote in our journal to show our mentor that we been recording what we to everyday in internship.