Did you meet your goals?

Yes i did meet my goals. Baiscally what my goals were is to be more responsible and learn more about what it takes to have a normal job, and how much effort you have to put in it. And also to finish this internship with a experience, and skills. And i think i did.

What are the most important things you’ve learned?

There are a lot of things that i have learned, but the most important thing is how to cimmunicate with professional adults. Especially where i was working. It's an Art company and everytime you meeting high level people, such as panelist, dance critics, so you have to have good commucination skills to communicate with them.And my mentor did a pretty good job teaching me that.

In what ways have your grown?

I feel like a grown woman. It might be funny to some people but ti's true. I learn things about myself that i didn't even realize i could do before. I feel more responsible and organize. I feel like i have more confidence and faith in myself.

What were the highlights of your internship experience?

If you can, describe a memorable moment or experience.

There are a few, but i mostly remember when i was talking with the dance critics on the phone. It was dufficult, but i learned.

What challenges did you overcome?

I am a shy girl, and my weakness is to speak with people, but while i was working in the Art council i feel more comfortable doing that.

What advice would you give a new intern at this site?

I'l tel them is to be very careful to the work that they giving you. They are really nice people. But if you make any mistake it will affect them. Just to be yourself, and be open to them.


What will you miss about your internship?

I will miss the exciting time we use to have. The events, the people there, and mostly working with them.

Interview Thinking

-What do I know about this person?
I know that her name is Aroon and she is the executive director of the Indo- American Arts Council.

-What do I want to know about this person?
Basically i want to know more about his scholar life. For example where did she go to college for how long. How was it? How did she get into this kind of job and more.

INTERVIEW

1- What is your full name?
Aroon Shivdasani

2. Where are you from?
India

3. Where did you go to college? For how long? Do you plan to go back to school?
I went to two colleges. One is an undergraduate in Bombe college And took my master in Iona College. It's basically for 6 years, 4 years of undergraduate and 2 years of master degree. No i don't plan to go back

4. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?
There have been a lot of things to do, such as going to a lot of interviews, planing the stuff.

5. What got you involved in this field of work? What inspired you to do it?
Because of the people, and i was a teacher and a dancer, so that's how it gets to me

6. Why did you choose this job?
It was my passion

7. How long have you worked here?
I founded it, and it have been for 11 years now

8. What is your job title?
An Executive Director

9. What is the best part of your job?
Meeting new people

10. Do you plan to open your own business one day?
It's my own business

11. How has having an intern helped your company or organization advance or progress?
It's great having them

12. What advice would you give to high school-aged interns (such as myself) getting ready for college and then the real world?
I would just tell them to follow their passion, work hard, and steay focuse.

daily post synthesis

OLD: Two things that i did before that i did this week was putting the information of the artists in excell.

OLD: I was doing a lot of copies of submission forms of some artists and checks.


NEW: Today was my first time doing faxing, it was great. That is something i learn today. and there's more to that, i also learn a lot about PowerPoint and word document. There's some thing you could there that was very cool. My mentor was doing something in the computer, and i was looking at what she was doing and that's how i learn all of these stuff. And one last thing i did was mailing these papers to this person in an envelope.

NEW: i was just preparing a packet of all the submission forms and pictures and other information of the artists they have pick for the dance festival in a big envelope to send to these peole to look at them. I

1-17-08

I was working in school helping ms carol grading the students work and putting it in her computer. It was fun. I loved it. It's good given them bad grades, no I'm kidding, i meant good grades. Then after i was making copies for her. It was alot. It was like 80 copies for each paper, and there were 3 papers. It took a lot of time. The bad thing that i did is print all three papers at the same time. So after i had to put then in order. It was alot, but Vanninzie came to help me, so it was much better. funnn

4-15-08

I was finishing typing the things i was suppose to type, and helping arma, so we could finish quicker. And also emailing the things i was typing to my mentor because she wasn't there. After i was done doing that, i was marking the name of entries of the company that my mentor and the panelist have reviewed already, and putting them in order alphabetically using excel. While i was doing that i made a mistake that mess up everything.The worst thing is that i saved it, if i didn't saved it i could have go back to the original page, but no.Then i started getting worried. I didn't know what to do. So i try a way to fix it. I had to do everything all over again until i did it right. It was a really bad day.

4-14-08

Today in Intership i wasn't doing a lot of things. Basically is typing information. I was typing some of the bios and projects the artist going to perform in the festival. It's basically for the experts to read and to give comments about them. its kind of way for it to easier for them to read.Some of the information was very long, so it kind of take time to finish typing, and it makes my fingers hurt.