New Skills

January 4, 2012 lovesavannahrose

I think that I have honed quite a few skills since starting this internship. I was never really “babied” into my responsibilities, I just sort of got thrown in and was expected to figure out how to do most things on my own. Which was hard at first, but I think that it really helped me take responsibility for my own work and helped me develop more problem solving skills which will be very helpful for when I start working in the real world.

I have also developed my people skills more because I am working with such different personalities from my own. Me and three other people work in a rather small office together, so it is essential that we get along and work together as a team.

Most of the people that work, and go to the clinic are fluent in both Spanish and English, but for most of the people Spanish is their first language, so being around them, and listening to all of them speak in Spanish to one another, and sometimes to me by accident is really helping me to develop my lingustic skills, and to remember some of the Spanish that I have learned and to really apply it in everyday life instead of just in the classroom.

So far I think that I have developed a lot of useful skills that will not only help me now, but also when I go off to college, when I get a job, and all throughout my life. I hope that I will develop even more skills as my internship progresses.