My first week consisted of orientation to help us interns get introduced to each other and the environment we will be working in. On the first day of orientation, we went over multiple instructional slideshows that detailed how we can best do our job. We took tours of campus and organized materials in preparation forContinue reading “My First Week: Orientation Fun!”
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The Dublin Diaries (Week 1, Getting to know my surroundings)
Hello everyone! I am so excited to share how my summer experience has been progressing! On May 26th I spent the day traveling to Dublin where I was met by my program instructors as well as other UCD summer students. We were driven into the city where we explored and ate lunch as a group.Continue reading “The Dublin Diaries (Week 1, Getting to know my surroundings)”
My First Week
Hello! My transition to working with the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida has been amazing. I’ve run into old peers at my high school and met a lot of new recurring volunteers that I’ve gotten to know and learn from. In my first blog post, I mentioned how I was planning on doingContinue reading “My First Week”
Hey! I’m Manal!
Hello! My name is Manal Mohib and I am a first year economics major from Orlando Florida! I’m especially passionate about the field of environmental economics, so for my summer experience, I decided to have it revolve around the cause of environmental protection. This summer I am hopefully working with Orange County’s Environmental Protection DivisionContinue reading “Hey! I’m Manal!”
Farewell to UHI
My experience was very positive and it allowed me to see and plan into my future a bit more. I’m the type of person who has a ten year plan. While shadowing, my plan has been reinforced because I continue to be incredibly interested in dermatology. Volunteering at the UHI clinic introduced me to manyContinue reading “Farewell to UHI”
My Summer Map
My daily spheres include family, friends and academics. My family sphere includes my parents and my dog, Max. We usually spend time together at home or visiting relatives. My social sphere includes hometown friends, college friends and my boyfriend. I spend lots of time with them at the beach and going out to eat, especiallyContinue reading “My Summer Map”
First Tour
When the tours for the day were accidentally overbooked, I had the awesome chance to come in on one of my days off to conduct my first solo tour!I led a tour group of older students who were a part of a summer program through the museum. It was wonderful getting to work with aContinue reading “First Tour”
Exciting Guests
Something incredibly exciting happened this past week of my internship at The Ritz! Two lovely and extremely knowledgeable women— a mother and her daughter— came through to tour the museum. They were both long time Jacksonville residents and were able to accurately identify many people in the historic photos in the museum. The mother, picturedContinue reading “Exciting Guests”
A Connective Project
Throughout my experience this summer, I was also involved with a separate project that laid at the intersection of history and culture. I was invited to consult on a project that plans to install informational kiosks commemorating notable Black Florida figures who had traveled north along the highway from the late 1800s to the earlyContinue reading “A Connective Project”
A Day In The Life Of An AmeriCorps Summer Vista – Eugene Major
A day in the life of me as a Summer Vista with PeaceJam Southeast typically consisted of me getting to the office at about 9:00 a.m. and leaving to go out to an organization around 10:00 a.m. The organization in the picture below was an organization called “The Oasis” here in Tallahassee. We’d typically spendContinue reading “A Day In The Life Of An AmeriCorps Summer Vista – Eugene Major”
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