#InternDiaries Chp 0.1: I Trust my High Heels

                                                         

Welcome to Marietta's Intern Diaries, 

where she would be writing about the basic life and thoughts

 of an intern.

I have started doing my student teaching internship. It is ermmm…… what’s the word? If I remember, I would tell you.

So, you see me so, I’m in my early twenties, but I look like someone who is a teenager. (No offense to me). Some girls are bigger than me. Some boys are bigger than me.

Anyway, it’s a funny experience. You are a teacher, talking on top of your voice, handling teenage boys (You can imagine!), handling teenage girls (another story), but you don’t get paid.

I haven’t really written down what I have been going through but hey, it’s another kind of world.

Being a small person is really something. A student walks to you to inquire of something, then you have to raise your head to listen to the person because the person is bigger and taller than you. This is where high heels comes in. You have to wear them to become taller than them and superior to them.

I am not saying I am short or anything. I have the average height. My size is what I am talking about here, and also your young face and stature. After teaching, all I do is to come back to my working desk, sit in front of my computer and laugh in my head.

My high heels makes me look smart, and my glasses already shows that I am that kind of a geek/nerd. Someone who understands the computer, and has been using it all year long (apart from blogging, hehehe xx.)

Anyway, thank you heels. You make me feel good. But walking in it to and fro during a computer practical session is another wahala.

Thanks for reading. See you later.

Noel's Intern Diaries 2015: Chapter 2: Essentials for the Ghanaian Intern

Hello Internship World

Hope you are having a great day. I'm still on examination mode and I pray it ends sooner

That does not prevent me from having my segment Noel's Intern Diaries. Today's all about the essentials a Ghanaian Intern should have on her

• A valid national identity card .Whether it's your Health insurance card or national ID card or Voters ID card.

• Your students ID card

• A planner

• Your CV and cover letter

• Your skills and talents

• A good internship wardrobe 

Stay sweet. Going to study

My Attachment (Internship) Period (And The Lessons I Learnt)

I remember when I came home for the long vacation, I never had the desire to do my attachment. Come on, I was hard up and I needed money to prepare for the next academic year. Besides, my laptop was ill, I had to look for accommodation, go to the hospital and revamp my wardrobe (It was really important for me). But I searched and did not find, so my last option was to do my attachment (unpaid internship). I sent my letter of introduction letter and landed somewhere.

I did not regret working here as an intern. I learnt a lot about marketing,customer care…………etc

I learnt a lot at my place. I learnt how to make appointments with clients and follow up calls which was a bit scary at first.

I also learnt it was VERY BAD to use office resources for your personal use during office hours. Once I was caught reading a novel (I love reading) on my office computer. I downloaded it and was reading. My boss caught me and warned not to do that again. It was very unofficial.

I learnt how to dress officially to work place. This has made me like to dress up like that to class.

I also learnt that, if you need to ask permission to be absent for a while, it should be asked a week earlier, so that work that was prepared for you to be done would be noted to be done sooner or later.

In my field, I learnt how develop questionnaires for evaluation of services like customer care.

I was absent for a day and was not able to phone in due to some circumstances. If you know you cannot make it to work, call in to inform someone at your work place.

Also, try to study someone before getting acquainted with them. You might not like the end results. Seriously.

One last thing, I learnt how to do perforation and binding of documents. Yeah.

How was your internship? What did you also learn?