Hello all, So just when I thought I was finished with my project, my supervisor said “Hey can you do this for english too!” I have already reduced the states content curriculum requirements for science and social studies, grades 2-8 into something I writer can easily access and base lesson plans off of. Now she […]
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I was super excited to be working from home and now I will be back in the office (sad face). BUT the good news is that this time I will not have to sit in the waiting room in a hard plastic chair facing the wall! I will be sitting in the office managers chair
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So, usually I am in the office everyday for 8 hours at the same desk, in the same chair, facing the wall. This is horrifyingly uncomfortable and boring to say the least. I have very bad hip problems which results in my legs falling asleep or being numb every hour. It is truly painful. So
“I am on a vacation,” was my mentality as I traveled with my director, Nate, and my co-worker, Alan, to Beaver Island for a four-days company’s first ever retreat. I felt honored and extremely grateful that they invited and allowed me to go on the first company’s retreat with them, even though I am only
Hau’s Week 7: Chiwara Retreat! Read More »
Okay this week had good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first? The bad news right? Well this week we had to close the Eastside Farmers Market early due to bad weather. In the beginning it was all going well besides the strong winds that where threatening to blow over
7. Research and Weather Read More »
I had never realized until working at one, that non-profits are not the well-oiled machines that corporations are. One could argue that the work that they do is much more valuable from a social standpoint, but moving information and coordinating with people outside of the organization is proving to be more and more difficult as
Project 1 for me was our annul health fair. Myself and another intern had been preparing for this for about 4 weeks. I couldn’t wait to see how it was going to turnout. Everything that could have possibly gone wrong, went wrong!! I came into the office at 7 a.m. (real dedication) and I was
The big day is here and it almost bombed!! Read More »
Last week kind of flew by. We were supposed to be preparing for the health fair, but I feel like as an organization we managed to do a lot of other things. My supervisor wasn’t in at all last week due to a busy schedule and I think the only thing that made that difficult
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This week was a very fresh change of pace and environment for me at Focus HOPE. So I will just speak on my two highlighted moments! You can rest assured that I’ve also been doing all the work I have previously spoke as well. On Tuesday I attended an event for Data Driven Detroit. It
Week Seven at Focus:HOPE, an extreme change of pace Read More »
This week I’ve really been trying to contact new people, and organize the information I have into the literary review that will be my final product. I know this is something many people experience in their jobs but it is so frustrating when people don’t call you back! From now on I’m forever answering emails
