Hello all,

This week I was very diligent at my internship. I did not complain about any of the work I was asked to do and I did the work quickly. An example of this was filing. I filed a large stack of documents correctly and quickly and my supervisor was very pleased. This lead to her trusting me with more work and less supervision later on in the week. I started working on company documents and calling  businesses on behalf of the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce, which was much more interesting than filing.  

I communicated all issues I had at work very well this week. Every time I was confused by something, I would ask. I would also talk to my supervisor discussing any issues after completing a task. An example of this occurred while I was gathering information for Tourist packets. My supervisor gave me a list of businesses to call and verify information for, but a for a few of them the lines were dead. At first I assumed the businesses were closed, but when I turned in the information that I gathered I made sure my supervisor knew that for a couple of the businesses the phone lines went dead. She reviewed the information and told me that a couple of the numbers that I was given were incorrect, and so I was able to call these businesses and include their information in the tourist packets, rather than exclude them because I thought they were closed.

While working on this very same task of gathering information, I ran into a problem and a weakness of mine. My supervisor could not read my handwriting. This made it so I had to go over everything I wrote down with her, one step at a time, and this really slowed down work at the office. Not only this, but messy handwriting makes me seem sloppy and as if I don't care about the work being done at the office. It makes it seem as if I am not "literate" enough for office work.  I will have to be sure to write neater next week.