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Holy crap, I'm posting more than once in the same month. Actually I'm trying to get used to writing a blog or whatever as well as writing in a journal for when I go abroad. So... I've been feeling really tired lately, which I don't understand too much cause I definitely got almost 9 hours of sleep on Sunday night, and last night I got about 7 and today I felt ridiculously tired. Makes no sense. Tomorrow I have section at 8 am so I'm pretty much going to bed after I write this post. I'm nervous because we had to read the Communist Manifesto and I did, but I don't know if I remember it/understand it well enough for the quiz we're going to have. I hate feeling like that. I don't want to have to have this "deep understanding" of it when the general idea is going to get me through life just fine.
I have an internship this quarter at the career center of a high school in Goleta, and I really liked it at first, but I think that might have been the novelty. Today I went in and we didn't do anything for the first 40 minutes. Then I spent probably 15-20 minutes reading the book that they use for their "Career Choices" class and thinking of homework questions for it. Then I went home because it's STAR testing this week and there was nothing to do (and I had to read the Communist Manifesto). It just seems so... limited in there. There are just the two women working in there together, and nothing really new seems to happen. At least I know that I probably don't want to work at a high school if I do career counseling.. it's too much like teaching because you are giving presentations to students who are bored and don't care. One of the reasons I was interested in career counseling/any kind of advising was that you get to help people by giving them information but they actually WANT the help. Oh well- I'm still getting experience with materials and assessments that are similar to what I might be doing at a college or just working level. It's definitely making me think about other career possibilities, though. I think it's definitely worth it though to do the internship since I have already seen that I probably don't want my first choice to be high school in any capacity. I just don't have patience for it. So this quarter will just be a short, relatively painless experience. I am going to try to actually participate in the presentations though so that I can build up my public speaking skills a bit. I talked about why I was doing my internship in a class on Thursday and it was pretty scary even though I probably talked for about a minute, so obviously I need the experience.
Well somehow this entry managed to be quite long. I'm out of ideas so goodnight.
I have an internship this quarter at the career center of a high school in Goleta, and I really liked it at first, but I think that might have been the novelty. Today I went in and we didn't do anything for the first 40 minutes. Then I spent probably 15-20 minutes reading the book that they use for their "Career Choices" class and thinking of homework questions for it. Then I went home because it's STAR testing this week and there was nothing to do (and I had to read the Communist Manifesto). It just seems so... limited in there. There are just the two women working in there together, and nothing really new seems to happen. At least I know that I probably don't want to work at a high school if I do career counseling.. it's too much like teaching because you are giving presentations to students who are bored and don't care. One of the reasons I was interested in career counseling/any kind of advising was that you get to help people by giving them information but they actually WANT the help. Oh well- I'm still getting experience with materials and assessments that are similar to what I might be doing at a college or just working level. It's definitely making me think about other career possibilities, though. I think it's definitely worth it though to do the internship since I have already seen that I probably don't want my first choice to be high school in any capacity. I just don't have patience for it. So this quarter will just be a short, relatively painless experience. I am going to try to actually participate in the presentations though so that I can build up my public speaking skills a bit. I talked about why I was doing my internship in a class on Thursday and it was pretty scary even though I probably talked for about a minute, so obviously I need the experience.
Well somehow this entry managed to be quite long. I'm out of ideas so goodnight.