Blossom - Sky.HighRob Riordan, HTH educator founder, says “This is not about careers. It’s not even necessarily about your greatest interest. Internship is about becoming something else; enlarging our sense of self.” What I take from this quote is that through internships we might not find our career choices, we might not find it as interesting as we hoped to; but there is always something to take away from internship. A new skill, a new goal, a new interest. And that's what's great about internships.
Now regarding my internship, I will be interning at the Athenaeum Art Center in Barrio Logan, of which is around 25-28 minutes away from my house. Initially finding out how I would get there was nerve-wracking as my mother has school and my dad has work. I was originally going to take public transportation but there was an issue in getting a pass for the bus and trolley, so that idea flew out the window. I know for my first day my family will be taking me, and hopefully the schedule I get matches up with my family’s that way I have a steady knowledge of how I’ll be getting to my internship. Otherwise I’ll just figure something out. As for my internship as a whole, their vision/goal is to provide educational and accessible art classes to the community and to communities who typically aren’t able to access these types of classes. I do believe that the art center does fit as an answer to the question “What does it mean to serve or contribute to the well-being of our community?” I saw Athenaeum’s goal as a fit answer because, to me, to contribute to to the well-being of the community is to make sure everyone has accessible resources to education, as well as activities. So being an organization that provides free events for all teens, helps contribute in my eyes.
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