Entry #7

Dates: 7/22/19 -- 7/25/19
Activities: Organizing and creating kits, Website Re-Design, Delivery, Errands
Technical Information: Lulu.com, WordPress, Divi Builder, Google Sheets
Reflection: This experience as an intern at the church has definitely changed my views on my career path. I have always wanted to be a teacher, and I've had my heart set on having my own Kindergarten class. But this internship has opened my eyes to a more business mindset. I realized I really like working in an office-setting, and the atmosphere here is one that I can definitely see myself working in. Also, I have been able to use my skills and knowledge that AOIT has taught me in action at my internship. This includes my soft skills like professional interaction and some technical information like creating a weebly. I have definitely broadened my horizons by doing this internship and I really appreciate that the church has given me this. Because now I know that being a teacher, although I still want to do that, it isn't the only interest or only path that can be right for me. I am very thankful for this experience for exposing me to different work environments that I wouldn't have known otherwise.

Day-By-Day:
On July 22nd, my supervisor texted me and told me to take the day off, as he was still recovering from the mission trip the past week, and his coworker who I also work closely with was going to be in late.
On July 23rd, I used the website Lulu to design boxes to send out to our rising 6th grade youth sort of like welcome kits. The website was really easy to use, and we were able to upload some of our photos to appear on the sides and top of the inside of the box. Then we had to organize what goes in the boxes and look at the T-shirt sizes on a Google Sheet. After lunch we worked on making posts for all the groups in Involve, and linking them to the Involve Page. It's been a while since I've used WordPress and I had some difficulties at first, but they were easy to figure out.
On the 24th, I spent the morning and lunch hour delivering the kits we made for the rising sixth graders. I also ran an additional errand for a coworker. It was very fun and it was nice to leave the office for a while and I felt very responsible, and happy they put their trust in me to do their errands. When I got back to the office I continued working on website stuff and navigating the permalinks to the correct blog.
On the 25th, we talked about how my last day will be next Monday. Because of this, we are doing last minute touches to the website and making sure the formatting for every post is the same. We did any finishing touches on the database such as finalizing the groups with pictures and their tags.