Christmas Break 2011

So it's Friday December 30th and I'm pretty much just relaxing and still enjoying my family. I don't really have any plans other than grab a bite to eat and then return home. The move to Stockton was a great choice, it is very quite and the house is very nice. Most of the time I'm home waiting on my little sister to come home so that I can play with her. Her name is Harmony and she just made 2 on December 8th. Hopefully if she doesn't come home to late I can take her to the park and let her play around for an hour or two. Tomorrow I will make a trip to Oakland to visit my best friend and possibly stay the night over there then return to Stockton. This whole break I have just been enjoying family and relaxing. I tried to sleep in but my body is so use to waking up so that I can head to YearUp so I haven't had any luck with that. Well, that is all for now it's time to do some Tech homework. 

Activities during Christmas break 2011

During the Christmas break I have been doing a lot of relaxing and reflecting on the time I have spent at YearUp Bay Area, as well as eating good, family gatherings, and watching plenty of basketball games. A special day that I am going to talk about is Christmas day!!! On Christmas Eve I could not sleep because I was looking forward to watching my adopted sister open her gifts!! On Christmas morning we woke up came downstairs and began to pass out gifts, sing Christmas carols, eat breakfast, and last but not least open gifts!!! After opening gifts we all put our clothes on and took a 5 minute drive to my aunt house. There is where we had the biggest Christmas feast EVER!!! There was ham, turkey, roast, greens, carrot salad, dressing, potato salad, greens, cornbread, and many other dishes. After eating and watching a few basketball games it was then time to open more gifts. After the gift opening we took family portraits and enjoyed each others company. Having family around on Christmas day always puts a smile on my face.

internship readiness

The quality of someone who is internship ready is one that shows confidence in what he/she has learned in tech class. A few more qualities for someone that is internship ready is demonstrating professionalism a great attitude, helpful, receiving/acting upon feed back, and eagerness. My plan on demonstrating internship readiness is to keep up the great job of being on time as well as becoming more outgoing as far as volunteering with the many opportunities such as setting up for guest speaker and moving tables in and out of room when necessary. A change that I plan,on making in module 3 would be my energy and facial expressions. Facial expressions may show that I'm mad, sad, sleepy or angry when I'm actually I'm just as happy to be in this program as the person who is outgoing and smiling/cheerful everyday. To be extremely successful in this module that was not consistant the other modules would have to be organizational skills.

Reflection On Work Experience

The best job that I ever had so far was working with DD kids (developmentally disabled) kids through FSSBA (family support services of the bay area). My primary responsibility was to take care of/engage in activity and homework with kids who were challenged, while their parents were either at work or at home. What made the job enjoyable for me was the opportunity that I gave to these kids to have a good time, and to see the smiles on their face while they were enjoying themselves. Another enjoyable part of this job was seeing the parents appear to be relaxed/at ease when I walked in the door to take care of their kid(s). A skill that I developed in doing this job that will serve me well moving forward into the internship is how I have the ability to work with a group of people no matter the age limit. Another skill that will help is the ability to communicate, this job made me become very responsible and forced me to communicate because parents always wanted to know how their kids were doing and what activities did I bring to the respite. A lot of the kids I worked with did a lot of MEWLING, so as a respite provider I had to be open and willing to express/show a caring and understanding side of me. A lesson that I learned in doing this job was how to have patience, be persistent, communicate, lesson planning, and time management.