My internship in Boston: It has been a month ~ Week 5

Bonjour everyone!

It is with excitement that I am writing to you today as on Monday, I celebrated my first month working as an Intern at Northeastern! And as some of you might have seen on other social media, I am a true believer of following dreams, and I would encourage everyone reading this post to follow their dreams.

In the past two weeks, I have seen an increase of my work load, I have been able to use my creativity towards the creation of several reports, organizing a student event in September, and increasing my knowledge on several countries and global employers research techniques.

Over the past couple of weeks I believe that I am becoming more confident in my work as more responsibilities are given to me.

This can include anything from contacting students to invite them to a fair, to contact employers and create documents for them. The event I am working on entails students to give time to fellow students explaining why they chose to do a Global Co-op rather than a domestic Co-op. I have been creating online attendance forms, which was a first for me, but really enjoyed learning the processes so that in the future I can do that without any difficulties. Over the past few weeks I have been given some specific task regarding some employers outreach research in several regions of the world. After being given those reports to do, I have been creating a template that I have been following for other countries, adapting it to specific needs of my colleagues .

I feel really happy with my progress so far, however the beginning of this week has been challenging as I have been assigned a new temporary role in the office. I have been covering the front desk of Stearns. This entail, answering the phone, students, employers, staff facing on a almost daily basis and general mailbox inquiries.

The time I am spending at the front desk lead to an increase in my work load as I have in addition of my own work load need to dedicate some of my time to the front desk assigned tasks.

I was happy to witness a mutual collaboration between the employees of my department but also between the different department of the university. I was glad to see that people are not taking things for granted and are always working towards a common goal, or a personal goal they have established. It is good to know that this type of help still exists.

Even though it has been a couple of stressful week, my week-ends are mostly relaxing, going to the beach, Boston Common or even Whale watching. As much as I love spending time at the beach, I have to say that I was really excited to go Whale watching with the other GCU interns. To be honest with you I wasn't expecting to be as lucky as we have been. I was hoping to maybe see one or two whales but it turned out that we saw around 15 whales, in their element, feeding, jumping or just coming to the surface to breath. I was an amazing experience!

I do not have anything as exciting planned for the coming weeks, however I will be moving flats in a couple of weeks, and that is a stressful process. It is not as easy to find a place in Boston as it is in Glasgow.