Final Reflection

My goals was to gain speaking skills, and to learn new vocabulary words that I don't know each day. I kind of achieve those skills because my mentor Fela she always asking me questions, and I have to  answer them. Usually I answer I don't know, and Fela say that's not an answer, Fela say she ask questions so it can improve my speaking skills when I get out of the internship, so I can be confident with my speaking skills when I am working at a different job, especially If I'm trying to improve my English. Three piece of advices that I would give to new interns at that site are be nice, be on time, and do your work. When I mean by being nice If you have high temper control them, I know it could be difficult, but you have to do it. What I learned in the professional world are not to be shy, be confident. The most important ideas  that I've learn during the last 12 weeks is how to be a good role model for teenagers like me.

Thank You Letter

Dear Ms. Fela

I would like to tell you thank you for telling me about Domestic Violence, Girls empowerment because it make me think about other girls problems. Girls that does not know anything about being in a relationship for ex: when they have a boyfriend, and they treat them badly and they still think that the boys like them. Also teach me how to protect themselves against bad diseases that are outside. Also to focus on their education, to finish their school.

In my internship I meet a lot of nice people like Ms. Keshena, Rose, Elsie, Fela, Alex, Margarette, Jubert, Patrice. They are very nice with me, if I don’t know something they are able to help me, with what I don’t know. At first I taught they would be mean with me, but they weren’t. They like having a younger person to help them out.

After my internship Dwa Fanm, especially my mentor she  make me a stronger teenager because she give me advice how to live later in life. How to protect myself and help other young teenage girls, by giving them advice. Becoming a great role model to them.

Thank you Ms. Fela and other Co-Workers at Dwa Fanm for talking to me about the Violence outside and how to overcome them. Also how to fax papers, talking in good manners to other organizations. Later in life I will  use those skills to help me everywhere that I go.


Sincerely,  Farah

Photo Essay

That's in John Jay High School me(Farah), my Internship mentor, my interns friends Tania and Sharon.We  have a program there called Girls Empowerment Group, every tuesday we go there to talk to teenage girls like us about how they feeling  today.

That's my Internship mentor  name Fela and Sharon the other intern. My mentor was asking us( interns) questions. Also giving us advices. How we think our skills are? How are we going to improve it when we get out of High School?

That's inside(the Hallway) of John Jay High school. That's where we walk to go the classroom in get into our groups.

That's where I walk from the front door to take the elevator to go to meet with the Girls empowerment group.First we have get scanned.

Me and Raime. That's  the room where we talk with our Internship mentor. That's where we from our group to discuss reality things that's happening in the world.

The Interview

1. What is your full name?

Elsie  Balu .


2. Where are you from(city, state,country)?
Brooklyn, NY.


3. Where did you go to college? For how long?Would you like to go back to school?
She went to Fordham University. For 1 year. Maybe one day she will like to go for her PHD( Doctorate Of Philosophy. 

4. (If the Interviewee went to college).... What was your major in college and what kind of degree did you earn? Did you attend graduate school for an advanced degree? If yes, what degree and at which school?

Elsie major was Social Work, she has Bachelor and Social Degree. She is in graduate school right now for her master degree and social work and administrative on Fordham University.

5. What made you choose your career you are working in now?

Elsie love working with people, help them find sustantable solutions to their problems.

6. Why did you choose this particular job at this particular company?
Elsie is an Intern there,she has no choice. Her avdisor place her there, so she accepted.



7. Describe the process in which you got your job.Did you interview?With how many people? How many times?
 She just interview there and she is an intern also. She got an interview only once with the executive producer Margarette of Dwa Fanm.

8. How long have you worked there?
8 months.

9. What is your job title?
Her job Title is Administrator.


10. What do your duties include?Another way of asking this question is,"What kinds of work does your job involve?
Her duties are Program Development and Education.Grant Writing.

11. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?
The challenges that she faced are Lack of deqate, Staff for programs.

12. What is the best part of your job?
Even though she doesn't work with clients, she like to organize things administratively, so it could be easy to deal with clients.

13. What is something you would like to change about your job?
Elsie like her job, the only thing that she would love is to have more organization from different department.


14. Did you work with someone else before this job?Where? For how long? How has that job similar or different?
She worked at the brooklyn of Manhattan Community College with the office of services for students with Disabilities(OSSD). She was learning Assistant for students with disabilities. She would take she would take notes for them, read and proctor exams for them. She worked for 3 years. It is similar to this job because it involved people. At her current job she help people indirectly where as my old job, I was working directly students.

15. What do you see as your future with this company? If you plan on changing jobs, what will you do?
She would love stay with Dwa Fanm as a volunteer, but I would like to move to a larger organization for move experience as a program developer or grant writer.

16. Do you enjoy the kind of work you do?Why or why not?

17. Do you ever plan to open your own business? If so, what kind of business will you open? where will you open it?
She plan to start a non-profit that is geared towards sustainable development projects in the rural areas of Haiti.

18. How was having an intern helped your company or organization?
Interns is a helpful resource to any organization as they take on a lot of important work for the organization like research and administartive duties and they gain a lot of experience in the process.

19.What advice would you give to teenage interns(such as myself) getting ready for college?
Having been through several internships. She would advice an intern to be open to new experiences whether they are in their comfort zone or not. Be willing to listen to advice from those in the organizations where you intern.

20. What advice would you give to teenage interns( such as myself) preparing to find a career in the real world? 
Make sure you always maintain good relationships with any places where you worked. Be an eager listener and learner. Look for role models and people that you admire at your internships and talk to them about your future goals. They can point you in the right direction.

Midpoint Reflection

My internship is  Dwa Fanm is not the same as the first time I taught. I taught I will see women to come to the office everyday to ask for help. The goals that I want to gained when I finish my internship is to speak English more sophisticatedly.The challenges that I had in my internship was to come up with an article about for teen girls to put in myspace because my Internship site has their own profile in myspace where they publish articles that are interested for the girls, to make those girls interested in that story and becoming our  friends with my internship site in myspace, I didn't know what to do because I never have to do that kind of stuff.To overcome those challenges was to work with my partner Anne, so we can come up with and idea ,and after that added to myspace. Using the fax machine is something that I learned how to use in my internship so I could sent mail to people, it could be about anything. I learn how to go to different places  like John Jay High School  and Wall Whichman.Working with professionals in my internship make me feel that I'm actually working in a actual job, you change because you don't talk to them as they were my friends. The altered schedule has affected me a lot because I have to finish my work in my home not in school because I don't have that much time to do it. Also I don't finish my work on time, to make sure that all my work are done before I go to my internship I do my homework to get rid of some and when I go home I finish the rest.

Artifacts

This is a Desktop computer that I used to type other Organizations informations like their email, phone number, their names and address were Dwa Fanm could get in touch with them to share their ideas with them. I search in google in that computer to look for free clothes to give to women and kids who can't afford clothes or toys.

This is Called Fax I used it to send brochures, or information about (Dwa Fanm)my organization,flyers to other Organizations to tell them would they like to participate and make a donations to help people in Haiti who where affected in the earthquake.To use that machine you have to put the letters on top of it ,and put 9 and dial the fax number for the place that you want to sent it to after  it call it like a phone and after you press black and it send it to the Organizations that you sent it and it says ok when it finish fax that's when you know it's done.

This is a Office Printer that I used to print papers because when I'm organizing papers put them in orders for(Dwa Fanm) I have to use it because It print papers faster than a regular printer, but I use a code to print papers otherwise I can't. It's very easy to use this printer, it's not complicated. I found all of those artifacts in my Internship site,when my mentor tell me to use it to do something for her.
I choose this artifact because it shows what kind of of equipment that I used to get my work done very simple and faster. It represent that my internship does not only used their hands to work, but also electronics to open their mind on things that are useful that they can use.

First Impressions

My mentor first and last name is Fela Pierre Louis, she's like supervisor. She's nice. The environment that work on is quiet,and full of nice people that like to help. My first thoughts when I first started my internship is what will they people think of me, are they going to yell at me, are they going to be mean with me. Make me do things that I can't do. The tree jobs that I started doing in my internship are typing, translating, organizing papers (putting them in the right orders). Well everyday we have different jobs, so I don't know I could I be specific with you. The most challenging part of my internship is translating a bunch of papers in Haitian Creole, it's not that easy to do because some words have different meaning. I learned how working in a Office is helpful.

1.How come I don't see woman who have been violated coming to Dwa fanm?

2. Does this organization exist in other cities besides New York? If so, Which Cities?

3. What is the primary goal of the organization?

When I ask Ms.Fela about the Primary goal of Dwa Fanm, she explained to me that the main goal are to help and supporting Women, Teens, Adults whose from any country with violation of Human Rights(Violence). Also my mentor (Fela) said  that Organization Dwa Fanm( Rights For Woman) does not exist in other cities, because they are the only Dwa Fanm that she knows that's all she could think of.