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.