Well, what a huge week it has been for me! I don’t really know where to start…
On Monday, my supervisor was not in at work due to sickness, but she had sent me a lengthy email asking me to do a few tasks- including driving a company car to the Department of Sports and Recreation to drop off some books. I was so astounded- I had only been here for a week, and they trusted me with the company car? Not only that, but the Department of Sports and Recreation is actually where I work as my part time job!
On Wednesday I also joined the department for Children and Families, on their launch of “Support for Mums when Dad works away”. This event was held at Brooklyn House, Langford. I was speaking to some of my colleagues earlier in the week about how their job description always contains the words “and any other tasks”, and saw first hand at the event what these “tasks” could include~ we were cleaning, reorganising, preparing, weeding, removing dead trees and making fruit platters!
The event was very successful, we had aimed to create an event in which people from major companies such as BHP and Woodside could create contacts with organisations such as Ngala and Red Cross. There was a lot of card swapping occurring at the event, which was great! I also got to meet the Minister- who was there to launch the booklet, and key contacts from major companies and organisations. The West Australian was there, and I had the job of taking photos for internal uses (our website, intranet and possibly community papers.) I took some lovely shots of some of the babies who were around, and unfortunately due to privacy laws (even though everyone signed a photo release form) I can only include these in my final report, and not here on this blog.
I also carried on working on the Living Histories project. Two of my colleagues, who work on this project are actually going on leave from today; one for a week, the other for three weeks. They have left me in charge of the project! Yup! Flying solo on another project! It’s scary, but such a huge honour that they think that they can not only trust me, but consider me capable. I have grown to quite like these two colleagues of mine, as I have spent most of my internship with them, and as I will not be seeing one again during my internship- as he is only coming back when I have left- it is quite sad to say goodbye.
Update on my CAT bus trails: I had a meeting with the Director this week about the work I had done for the trails, to get approval to go ahead with the trails, and begin ringing places to get further details. Now the director’s office is plastered, literally plastered, with certificates and recognition for her work in public relations, so I was feeling a bit nervous about our meeting. However, when she saw my work she kept exclaiming that I had done such a great job, and how pleased she was with my work! What a compliment! Since that meeting I have been ringing around, getting special deals and offers for the seniors during the week- which is time consuming, but very rewarding when you get fantastic offers. All my hard work will be published in the October issue of Have a Go newsletter, and possibly community papers.
I am thoroughly enjoying my placement, and have received such encouragement from all my colleagues here. Not only have I been told that I am “worth every penny I am not getting paid for” and also asked if I can stay on to help (I kindly declined- I need the money for petrol etc when at uni!) One colleague has also shouted me coffees for all the work I have done for him over the past few weeks, and given me coffee vouchers to use in the last two weeks of my internship!
I hope everyone else is having as good a time as I am :)
LM
On Monday, my supervisor was not in at work due to sickness, but she had sent me a lengthy email asking me to do a few tasks- including driving a company car to the Department of Sports and Recreation to drop off some books. I was so astounded- I had only been here for a week, and they trusted me with the company car? Not only that, but the Department of Sports and Recreation is actually where I work as my part time job!
On Wednesday I also joined the department for Children and Families, on their launch of “Support for Mums when Dad works away”. This event was held at Brooklyn House, Langford. I was speaking to some of my colleagues earlier in the week about how their job description always contains the words “and any other tasks”, and saw first hand at the event what these “tasks” could include~ we were cleaning, reorganising, preparing, weeding, removing dead trees and making fruit platters!
The event was very successful, we had aimed to create an event in which people from major companies such as BHP and Woodside could create contacts with organisations such as Ngala and Red Cross. There was a lot of card swapping occurring at the event, which was great! I also got to meet the Minister- who was there to launch the booklet, and key contacts from major companies and organisations. The West Australian was there, and I had the job of taking photos for internal uses (our website, intranet and possibly community papers.) I took some lovely shots of some of the babies who were around, and unfortunately due to privacy laws (even though everyone signed a photo release form) I can only include these in my final report, and not here on this blog.
I also carried on working on the Living Histories project. Two of my colleagues, who work on this project are actually going on leave from today; one for a week, the other for three weeks. They have left me in charge of the project! Yup! Flying solo on another project! It’s scary, but such a huge honour that they think that they can not only trust me, but consider me capable. I have grown to quite like these two colleagues of mine, as I have spent most of my internship with them, and as I will not be seeing one again during my internship- as he is only coming back when I have left- it is quite sad to say goodbye.
Update on my CAT bus trails: I had a meeting with the Director this week about the work I had done for the trails, to get approval to go ahead with the trails, and begin ringing places to get further details. Now the director’s office is plastered, literally plastered, with certificates and recognition for her work in public relations, so I was feeling a bit nervous about our meeting. However, when she saw my work she kept exclaiming that I had done such a great job, and how pleased she was with my work! What a compliment! Since that meeting I have been ringing around, getting special deals and offers for the seniors during the week- which is time consuming, but very rewarding when you get fantastic offers. All my hard work will be published in the October issue of Have a Go newsletter, and possibly community papers.
I am thoroughly enjoying my placement, and have received such encouragement from all my colleagues here. Not only have I been told that I am “worth every penny I am not getting paid for” and also asked if I can stay on to help (I kindly declined- I need the money for petrol etc when at uni!) One colleague has also shouted me coffees for all the work I have done for him over the past few weeks, and given me coffee vouchers to use in the last two weeks of my internship!
I hope everyone else is having as good a time as I am :)
LM
1 comment:
hey LM, good luck to you
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