Week two was a lot. It was great, but it was a lot. It was challenging.

And I don’t mean it

was a lot in the “work eight hours a day nonstop for five days straight” kind of way, I mean in

the emotional way. Kind of. See, I have a lot of freedom when it comes to what I do. Here’s what

I mean by that: when I went in to work on Tuesday, Anna gave me three tasks to complete, one

at a time, with the implicit implication that I could take as little or as much time on them as I

needed to finish them. For example, the first thing I did was make up supply bags for each of the

cabins for Teen Retreat based off a checklist, and I got finished when I got finished. After that I

designed a welcome sign for the cabins based on the theme of “Amplify” using Canva. There

were so many things to do with the theme that I ended up playing around with it for a while until

I finally decided to make a second sign and alternate them between the cabin numbers. Everyone

loved it and I got a chance to really play around with Canva, and I felt like I really brought my

skills with the program to a completely new level. I ended up finishing in about an hour—just in

time for lunch—which was great, but it would have been totally fine if I didn’t. And that’s what

took me the whole week to grasp: that there are deadlines, yes, but not really. That as long as the

work gets done, I can go at my own pace and do it however I want. That as long as I’m

completing quality work to the best of my ability it doesn’t matter if it takes me four hours or

forty-five minutes. That this is, more often than not, how things work in the real world. My point

is that after so many years of school, classes, and the rigid deadlines therein, it is challenging to

acclimate to the more flexible, career-like aspects of my internship. Nonetheless, it has been

extremely helpful in preparing me for when this transition occurs for real.

Going back to what I did for the week, I wrapped up Tuesday by creating labels for

campers’ insulin, since there will be times when they’ll need to be separated from their delivery
systems and it’s imperative that Camp Kudzu knows each of them has the right type of insulin to

use.

Lastly, regarding my 16.5-hour deficit, I’m not too worried. While the first week was

slow due to it being the first week, and Monday’s holiday closure meaning that I lost a day’s

worth of hours this week, my hours have increased a lot, and during weekends when I will be

helping with camp sessions like Teen Retreat the schedule goes from around 7 in the morning to

midnight. (There are breaks, of course, including for meals, but that’s still a lot of hours).

Logbook:

Day Time In Lunch Time Out Hours Worked

Monday January N/A N/A N/A N/A
16th
Tuesday January 9:00 AM 12:00 PM – 3:45PM 5hr 45min
17th 1:00PM
Wednesday 9:00 AM 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM 5hr 15 min
January 18th 12:45PM
Thursday January 9:00 AM 12:15 PM – 1:15 3:00 PM 5
19th PM
Friday January 9:00 AM 12:00 PM – 3:15 PM 5hr 15min
20th 1:00PM
Total Weekly 21hr 15min
Hours
Total Hours to 37hr 5min
Date