Done with the internship

Friday, 13th was the day, my last at 4thirteen Media as an intern. My final week was quite a busy one. I had to help the team in some tasks that I wasn’t assigned to in order to keep work going. I did this because I’m willing to help when help is needed and whenever possible. On February 7th I accompanied my colleagues for shooting at the Thaipusam at Batu Caves on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. Thaipusam is an annual Hindu religion festival, or celebrations to thank their Lord. We left for Batu Caves at 3 am Sunday to avoid congestion as tens of thousands of people were expected to attend the celebrations.
The week commencing on 10th February began slowly with nothing much to do. One of my supervisors had a small task for me to do. He told me to cut 10 A1 size papers into halves and paste them on the notice board, then on each of them write the names of each of the projects that are run by the team. These sheets would then be used to write notes and updates on the progress of the projects, the deadlines and leaders of specific projects. Then I would prepare a Microsoft excel spread sheet that’s would contain all information about the projects, which I named Project Check. This spread sheet contains the project title, project leader, objectives, tasks and due dates. I’ve posted the project check spread sheet on the company’s google docs tool to enable everyone in the team to access it and it is my responsibility to ensure it is updated every week. This means I will continue helping even after my internship, because I’m done only with the internship, but not the projects at work; due to the reason that most of them are long term projects.

Overview of the internship
Cool…cool…this explains it all. The past two months were important to my life, more so that it was my first time ever in my life to work. I have never worked even as part-time. So that is why this internship has been so important to me. I’ve worked with people from all over the world; from Malaysia, Botswana, China, India, USA, South Africa, Liberia, New Zealand and as far as Trinidad and Tobago. It was quite an experience working with these people and I think it has helped me improve my communication skills, which is vital in Public Relations and in the Public Relations industry.