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#2 - The ABSOLUTELY WACKY (more like nervewrecking) internship at a retirement home
Back for the second post ever!
Today, I'm just going to reflect on the last 2 weeks, because my weekend wasn't eventful at all, I've just been laying sick in bed.
Two weeks ago I started my internship at a retirement home. The first week, especially the first few days, I didn't do much, especially because I have major problems regarding interacting with strangers or just people I don't know well. And yes, I do realise in hindsight that doing my internship at a SOCIAL facility where you have to INTERACT with STRANGERS was probably a very stupid thing to do considering my poor social skills, but I still wanted to try it out, considering my mom also worked in a retirement home for a short time.
Anyways, I started doing a few things out of my comfort zone later on in the week, which resulted in me almost breaking out crying, which all of the workers + my friend, who also did her internship at the same facility, saw. The workers proceeded to talk to me and told me I didn't have to do anything that I did not want to do, which was nice of them, but that wouldn't stop me from trying over and over again, (without crying though!).
Also, funny thing that I wanted to add:
The first week, my friend and I both had the same shift, which was 8 AM to 4 PM, both of us essentially working the entire day there. Turns out, we both weren't allowed to work 8 hours a day, (thank you, JArbSchG). Our personal internship worker kicked us both out on friday, at 12:30 PM, and we then had to work seperate shifts the next week. There also was a rumor in my neighborhood that we did something wrong and got kicked out because of that, but that's a story for another day.
The second week was basically the same, the only difference was that i slowly knew some of the names of the clients that came every day.. and also the seperate shifts from my friend, which in theory makes sense, but I'm very forgetful, so not having my friend there for the first or last 2-3 hours, depending on the day, was hell.
There wasn't anything special that happened, except that I stayed at home on friday, because I was sick.
Seems like I'm done for now.
I'll probably do a post soon where I describe my average working day there and all the things I have to do, just to archive it in case I need it for a presentation.
If there is anyone reading, see you soon and have a good day. :)
Today, I'm just going to reflect on the last 2 weeks, because my weekend wasn't eventful at all, I've just been laying sick in bed.
Two weeks ago I started my internship at a retirement home. The first week, especially the first few days, I didn't do much, especially because I have major problems regarding interacting with strangers or just people I don't know well. And yes, I do realise in hindsight that doing my internship at a SOCIAL facility where you have to INTERACT with STRANGERS was probably a very stupid thing to do considering my poor social skills, but I still wanted to try it out, considering my mom also worked in a retirement home for a short time.
Anyways, I started doing a few things out of my comfort zone later on in the week, which resulted in me almost breaking out crying, which all of the workers + my friend, who also did her internship at the same facility, saw. The workers proceeded to talk to me and told me I didn't have to do anything that I did not want to do, which was nice of them, but that wouldn't stop me from trying over and over again, (without crying though!).
Also, funny thing that I wanted to add:
The first week, my friend and I both had the same shift, which was 8 AM to 4 PM, both of us essentially working the entire day there. Turns out, we both weren't allowed to work 8 hours a day, (thank you, JArbSchG). Our personal internship worker kicked us both out on friday, at 12:30 PM, and we then had to work seperate shifts the next week. There also was a rumor in my neighborhood that we did something wrong and got kicked out because of that, but that's a story for another day.
The second week was basically the same, the only difference was that i slowly knew some of the names of the clients that came every day.. and also the seperate shifts from my friend, which in theory makes sense, but I'm very forgetful, so not having my friend there for the first or last 2-3 hours, depending on the day, was hell.
There wasn't anything special that happened, except that I stayed at home on friday, because I was sick.
Seems like I'm done for now.
I'll probably do a post soon where I describe my average working day there and all the things I have to do, just to archive it in case I need it for a presentation.
If there is anyone reading, see you soon and have a good day. :)