Internship showcasing

The skills that I have gained at Year Up are being persistent, time management, networking, troubleshooting, writing comprehension, efficiency in software and presentation skills. The main skill I anticipate on displaying when I first go to my internship at Salesforce.com is my ability to manage time. What I mean by that is I will always present to my manager my ability to be on time, and reliable. I want my manager to have no doubt in my work capabilities, I want to be that person who is always called upon even late night emergency calls. The only question I have for Salesforce.com is how can I assure my position as an intern to be permanent? I know my work environment is going to be hectic, I see myself running around from different floor levels networking to complete my tasks given to me. I vision myself in constant communication with VP's and CEO's, i'm hoping I do not fail and can complete every task efficiently. I am going to be working under Ebony the vice president of Salesforce.com, so I know i'm going to need to be on my toes 24/7. I've been told she has no patience for people who lack motivation and initiative. I met her during the time she came and presented as one of our guest speakers, and since then I knew she was the manager I wanted to work under, she influenced me. I hope when I am at my internship my presentation and communication skills go from being experienced to proficient.  I want by the time i'm done with my internship to be comfortable with being at one peace with my professional side. I plan to be the assistant of Ebony at Salesforce.com, what ever she needs done I will be the one to do it. I plan to network and produce quality work as my way of standing out in the work place. If  all goes well I will have a job by the end of internship, if not then I plan on going back to school to finish my associates degree. 

Holidays!

The finally of my holiday break was spent having dinner on Thursday with my god mom. She finally! is pregnant with her first baby and is receiving her doctrine after years of hard work, we celebrated and gave a toast to her accomplishments before the new year. On Friday I drove down to Santa Rosa to my car dealership to get it worked on. That opened up the opportunity for me, to see my family in the north bay, which was great. I had to leave my car at the shop while the mechanics worked on it, so my friend Julia and I came to a unanimity that she was going to picked me up. We went back to her place and caught up with each others lives since we haven't really hung out since this summer. Later on my cousin came and picked us up, we accompanied him and his friend to the barber shop, we were there for about three hours! If that's not love for my cousin, to be stuck with a whole bunch of guys gossiping at a barbershop for that long, then I have a misunderstanding on the definition of love. For New Years Eve I came home to get freshened up and went over my girl friends house to finish getting ready. We celebrated with a bottle of champion and gave a toast to the count down for the new year, and I went to sleep.

Holidays!

During the first week of break I took the time to clean my house and spent some time at home. Usually my time is spent at school, work, aunts, parents, friends or some where else besides my house. During the time I spent cleaning the house, I used that as my time to relax. That was on Monday. Tuesday, gave me the chance to look over my budget for the year. After that, I got ready to start having fun for my one week winter break. I connected with one of my friends and we went rollerblading. During the time we were skating I thought I was skilled enough to do some tricks, being that the last time I had skated was the year before. An accident occurred that had my thumb nail detaching from my nail bed and completely bent backwards. I was bleeding traumatically while I put the nail back in place to align with the rest of my thumb. I cleaned off and kept on skating till our time came to stop skatting. Same day my friend and I went to dinner and a movie and watched Mission impossible with Tom Cruise, which was brilliant. The next day I went to Year Up to pick up my check and greeted my colleagues, along with staff. I had gotten a head start on my homework assignments that was given to me before I went on break. I ended that day with being a judge for the competing poets at a poetry slam.

Holidays!

 During the first weekend of the winter break I had to work. On Christmas eve I went over to my aunts house and hung out with the family. Me and one of my male cousins shared stories about what we planed to do different for the next year and watched football. My aunt taught me how to make gumbo and she made me clean the crab and chicken that was being used for the gumbo. It maybe my uncles last Christmas, due to lung cancer so i'm making sure I spend as much time with him as possible. You never know what the new year is going to bring, just to be sure i'm making an effort to just be present for him. On Christmas day, even though I didn't go to my parents house, they passed by my aunts house as well as my other aunts and cousins. That saved me a trip from going around the bay area to see them and give them their presents. I was happy when they came over, I received a life lecture from my aunt Wanda while she was intoxicated and had a chance to be filled in on her life history. My favorite present was receiving gift cards, can't ask for anything better. I also had the time this year to visit my old foster mom, who was ecstatic to see me as well as her family, whom I haven't seen in years. I'm understanding the goodness in myself and how I effect others in a positive way, even with out having to be in a position to give material things that bring happiness.

Internship Readiness

Some one who is internship ready, in their evaluation has more positives then negatives. Some one who has the confidence in knowing they can conquer all task independently as well as group tasks. I plan to demonstrate more confidence in the way I communicate and do presentations. I plan to be more assertive with follow ups, such as returning emails and calls. I also plan to work fully on my time management and priorities, prioritizing the most important first and  less important last. Also I need to manage making to little things, like energy vibe, consistency, preparation, going to sleep at a set time, doing all my work the night before including taking a shower and setting my clothes for the next day. Following through with my teachers about a homework assignment the day before it is due. Making my time fully available so I can achieve and improve, both in my academical and extra curricular activities.

Best and the worst job

• My best job was working at villa Marin. My primary responsibility was to coordinate the dinning room and serve food. I would come in get my time card and clock in. Then I would go look on our daily to do list and see what tasks needed to be done for that day. I would have to remember what appropriate side needed to be served and the side that needs to be busted. Also I learned the formal way of placing the different types of spoons, forks and knifes following glasses on the table. I loved working with all my staff members and my managers. We all had a connection, ended up that the mainstream of people that work there went to my high school.The way my manager manages the kitchen and dinning room section gave me a chance to grow and the time to reciprocate what I had learned. For internship this taught me time management, patience, respect for different social culture,  and lastly how to work a part of a team. This also was my worst job because I was always late, talked with the residence and staff more than I served. For the residents that gave me a hard time I would mess up their orders on purpose. It was a constant mess, and food stayed staining my clothes. The lessons I learned was how dependent my job was on me during my shift. Also that my time management needed to be evaluated. 

Public Art as Social Protest

 "Until Lions write their own history, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter'' by Ourstorian

Diego Rivera an artist who was a force of nature painted a mural called "frozen Assets" represented the patron’s power over the non-wealthy and the direct contradictions the government sets for its self. Rivera's mural allocated facts about how divided the system was with his painting specifying towards the era of, John D. Rockefeller Jr. His picture gave an example of injustice, depression, secrecy, betrayal done by the government. The occupy movement today shows the force of the nation’s retaliation. The unity of people felt that their voice, were not being considered, because of the injustice laws of the government. It is sad to see that the people have to block freeways, walk miles to different states, and protest within the cities to indicate that what they have to say should be an obligation by the government. The people’s right for freedom of speech is being over ruled by the government, which can lead to proving how the government sets its self-up for direct contradictions. In result is the occupy movement, the police is enforced, and is beating the people with patrons, spraying them down with gas and incarcerating them. It has come down too these types of riots happening on college campus. There is a saying that we are the 99% that is being controlled by the 1%. We,  being under government laws paying taxes, the money that we work hard making, the government ends up taking it away from our paychecks.