Monday, May 17, 2010
Week 2 - What surprises you?
Hey Everyone - Looking forward to hearing about some great experiences out there this week. How about telling us about something that you've found or learned at your job site that you didn't expect? You shy people who have yet to post a comment should take a look at last week's comments for inspiration. Hope it all continues to go well.
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Hey everyone! This Saturday I was able to work all day at the Q for a Gladiators football game! I saw everything that goes on behind the scenes, and all the offices and rooms around the Q! It was really interesting and exciting to see exactly how much work is put into an event. Also I realized how organized the marketing department has to be in order to get all the promotions done in the time allotted during a game. So far its going great!!
ReplyDeleteHey guys :) Looks like everyone is having a good time. I don't think I expected early education to be as easy as it is. I thought the students would be a handful, but after doing the psychology half of my project, it's a piece of cake. I am helping the 2nd graders prepare for their play at the beginning of June. I also have been teaching students to read, write, tell time, and do math. It is so rewarding to see how happy the kids are to have me there!
ReplyDeleteHey! I have to agree with Jenni, the elementary kids are so well behaved, and not to hard to handle. I think I was so surprised that the kids "accepted" me as quickly as they did. Everyday they ask me to sit with at lunch, and they each make three trips a day to my desk to say hello! it has been such a rewarding experience.
ReplyDeleteLast week I got to go to Plum Brooke Station, which is a NASA owned center and I got to learn about the chemistry behind the big vacuum chamber and why it's entirely made of aluminum. I'm going there again today learn about the USDA, which is something about bird population. I could write a book on everything I've learned so far about just the environmental stuff. Each day is another exciting adventure!
ReplyDeleteHey! Week two has been a blast so far! Yesterday, (Wednesday), I got to be a camera person for a school assembly. It was a guest speaker about how drinking and driving is bad and all that... It was a little depressing since the speaker is on parole...... Anyway, that wasn't the fun part. The fun part was I got to crawl around on the floor to get the best close up shots!! The film equipment that they have at this school is incredible! I even had my own headset so that I could talk back and forth with the people in the newsroom who were handling all the producing and directing. It was so much fun being a part of the film crew for the assembly. Next week I'm hoping to be a part of the producing/directing crew back in the newsroom for the Senior Assembly.
ReplyDeleteI've been helping Mrs. Batchos with some outside projects as well; I'm helping to edit yesterday's speaker video to put onto DVD's, I'm helping to edit the senior video, and other various projects.
I've been keeping a steady journal, documenting something everyday.
This has been such an amazing experience so far, and I completely forgot how much I absolutely love being behind the camera. It has been a blast working in the newsroom, (Channel 101 News!), and helping students with their stories and final projects. I can honestly say that I don't want this to end!!
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Hey everyone, This two weeks has been fun, and very busy. I'm getting the opportunity to plan a closing ceremony for the World School Games. The World School Games is an event where sports teams come from all over the world to compete in swimming, basketball, volleyball, soccer, and tennis. The part of the ceremony that I am planning is kind of like our after prom is. This should be fun. Who know that most organization have an already set up price for non-profit organizatiolns?
ReplyDeleteI've been talking to family memebers instead of just the residents. It's sad to look at people who can't even remember how to eat with silverware after hearing these amazing stories of travelling and bad jokes, adn funnny christams tales...it's like looking through a photo album and not remembering exactly what was happening in the pictures, but still knowing that you had a good time. When the patient's have good days it's like magic - they can tell you about anything that old age hasn't made disappear from their minds and they laugh and tell jokes. It's like a completely different person, they still have the short-term memory lapses, but they're not as frequent or as terrible to watch.
ReplyDeleteAll in all - this people here are pretty cool and pretty fun to be around :)
I guess what's kept surprising me is how debilitating headaches and migraines can be and how much they can affect your life. There are clinics all over the country solely to help treat people with chronic migraines, although only a few. Having a mentor who's a specialist an uncommon field is interesting. I've been shadowing an 3-week intensive program for the worst of the migraine sufferers and it's suprising how much they can disrupt life. As a nurse mentioned, the people who come in for the program are often so disconnected from their lives and families because of all the drugs they're on that they're like zombies. The change, even after the first week is really significant. Who knew headaches were such a big deal?
ReplyDeleteOh and the fact that there's an actual Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is pretty cool too! I'll be taking about it during my final presentation :)
That which is most surprising to me thus far: how huge of a problem childhood obesity is becoming. One of the doctors I am working with predicts that by 2020, doctors in the pediatric (thats children!) emergency room will have to be ready to respond to heart attacks. On any given day in the ER there are multiple morbidly obese patients with a series of complications. There was a 13 year old girl who weighed 174 kg, which is 382.2 lbs. She is already hypertensive and arthersclerotic, and she has no underlying disease causing the problem. Just today I saw an 8 year old boy who has type two diabetes, which is entirely life-style related, and hypertension. It is sad how obesity has become a way of life for so many people; in this boy's family, everyone is obese--diabetes is actually expected. It is a twisted way of thinking. At this rate, this generation will be the first that won't outlive their parents.
ReplyDeleteI have really begun to understand the chemistry behind a good coffee roast. The sugars, caffein, and stuff. Also roasting happens around 400 degrees, thats when the roaster really has to pay attention to sound, color, smell, air, temperature, and other factors. Its kind of more complicated than I thought. Oh yeah, if you like flavored coffee, I don't think you would if you saw what makes it "flavored coffee". None the less I am not going to spoil your "flavored coffee." If you really want to know ask me sometime... Thanks talk to you all later
ReplyDeleteSomething that just really surprised me about being at State Farm is how many people do not know what their insurance really entitles them to and what it does not. People have had a flood in their house and expect their fire insurance to cover it, because it all has to do with the "house." Something else I had no idea about is how many types of insurance there is, and how many different variation of the same type of insurance.
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