This week was very slow in the beginning, and sped up rapidly towards the end. I should have expected this outcome, and I did, so I was well prepared for the large mass of work dropped on me upon my return to the office on Thursday morning. As I said in week nine, I was out for the first three days of the week so I could keep an eye on my dogs. I wasn’t exactly resting while at home though, as I was kept slightly busy by the drip of work through my assigned email. A couple times a day, I got a new assignment, and even though they barely kept me for a half hour each, it was something to work on. When I returned on Thursday after my time off, I was greeted and given a pile of sample tiles to deliver across town. By the way, Naples has a street specifically for stone and construction businesses. Those types of businesses aren’t limited to that area, but its pretty much where every single business named “Stone”, “Florida”, “Works”, or “Design” are located. I have kindly requested that my coworkers who provide me with tasks, to please only give me the address so I cannot be confused as I drive down a busy street looking for Naples Stoneworks, not Florida Designworks. Both of those are real places on the exact same street.
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Week 9
Much more of the same for me this week. I’ve noticed that my general responsibilities have shifted slightly. Although I still take care of much of the accounting input, I’m being consulted less and less on designer choices, which I believe are instead being posed to the new designer. Out of consideration for her, I won’t name her or any of my other coworkers. I genuinely wonder how much longer the downtime will be for me, because its already substantially increased since the new girl has been here. I have heard from my supervisor that we are looking at new accountants soon, so I will have much more downtime after whoever gets hired arrives. Hooray. I am looking forward to a somewhat substantial work pile when I get back though. I will be working from home this Friday through the Wednesday of next week. My parents will be out of town, and I need to stick around and make sure the dogs don’t shred the house while I’m away. Those two have an alarming propensity for destruction, and they usually get off scot free with little more than a belly ache from whatever paper they eat. Lest my dogs turn the house into a literal doghouse, I elected to stay home and watch them. I will be doing online work though, arranging housing tours, as well as a few choice documents that my supervisor wants me to work on while I’m out. I expect working from home to be very little of disturbance to me, as I worked well enough throughout 2020.
Helping Out With Summer Camp
This week is the last week of my internship! It’s very sad, as I grew to really love the position and the people that I got to know because of it. The time flew by incredibly quickly. (A side note: I can’t believe the semester starts so soon, as well!) For my last week at the museum, I have been helping out/have plans to help out with a specific summer camp that one of my supervisors are running. It’s a science-based camp and the activities are run from a National Geographic activity box. The reason that I was specifically recruited is because of my specialized knowledge in rocks and minerals, and the box is partially focused towards that. One of the activities is to make your own crystals by mixing a few things together and letting it sit all week. (The kids will get them back on Friday!) Another activity they did was excavating their own minerals, such as pyrite (fool’s gold) and types of quartz, most commonly rose quartz.
Other activities the camp got up to included making volcanos! I’m not quite sure how the volcanos are meant to explode as that’s happening later in the week, but the kids were able to mix their own plaster and scoop it into a mold. The concoction was let out of the mold after thirty minutes and is not sitting to dry for a few days. The reason we did these two activities the first day is because they’re the ones that need more than one day to complete. Later in the week, they’ll be able to paint their volcanoes and explode them, as well as see how their crystals turned out. While I didn’t help out in the afternoon class today, I popped into the morning class which was about comics where the kids are spending the week learning how a multi act story is formed and then making it into a comic book that they’ll draw themselves throughout the week. It was still a lot of fun!