Week of 6/11-6/15

Hours:
Monday: 10 am-3:45 pm
Tuesday: Office closed due to meetings
Wednesday: Office closed due to meetings; worked from home 7-9 pm
Thursday: Office closed due to meetings; worked from home 10-12 am; 2:30-3:30 pm
Friday: Out of town for a supervisor-approved family trip to visit extended family in Mississippi total: 10 hours, 45 minutes
I am doing this one a little bit early, because I will be out of town for about a week and a half starting today.

Monday:
I spent the majority of my day at the storage facility for Special Olympics North America. My supervisor and I were doing an inventory of the equipment we had that we could use for the tournament, so as not order things we did not need. This involved searching through boxes and counting items, and compiling a list of what we had. Later in the day, I received a response from the Hilton Garden Inn about housing for families, and my supervisor forwarded it to the main office in Washington DC. I was also sent to Staples to make copies of a training manual to be used when training coaches for various Special Olympics Teams. I began looking for a inventory sheet from the last tournament, so as to compare it to the information we found.

Tuesday:
The Office was closed due to meetings, I did not come into the office
Wednesday:
The office was closed due to meetings, I did not come into the office. I began working on compiling an inventory list in Excel using the information we had gathered from our trip to the storage facility.

Thursday
The Office was closed due to meetings, I did not come into the office. I completed the current inventory list for this tournament, and completed the comparison list from the past tournament. We can now use that list for reference.

New Experiences:
I was given the opportunity to experience what is involved with this job outside of the office. For example, my trip to the storage facility and staples.
Most of my work this week involved working with Microsoft word and Excel. This involved making inventory lists and working on the various packets

As I have only been in the office one day this week, I am not sure if we have gotten responses from some of the people we have been contacting about the tournament. If we have not, we still do not have all of the information we need to complete all of the handbooks. However, we have completed the handbook. It is still frustrating how difficult it has been to contact some of these people.

I completed the Registration handbook over the weekend, and it should be ready to be sent out by next week while I am away. The event and volunteer handbooks are still not yet complete.

Objectives
While I am away for the next week and a half, I will need to maintain contact with my supervisor so as to find out if there is anything he would like me to work on while I am away. Hopefully while I am away, I can make a little more headway towards finishing the event handbook and volunteer handbook.

Strategies:
Get to a computer as often as I can, emailing and calling my boss. Just Ensuring that I stay up to speed while I am away.

Internship: Wild Dunes, Charleston, SC
Topic: Kid's Camps

Each week, we offered 4 days of kids camp. The camps were split into 2 age groups: ages 3-5, and ages 6-10. We had a specific theme for each day. For the older children, we took them off property twice a week. Tuesdays we took them to a water park, and Thursdays we took them to Frankie's Fun Park, an arcade where the kids could play video games and drive go carts, or ride in go carts if they weren't tall enough to drive. One day was spent teaching kids to boogie board, and playing water games. Another day was left up to the counselors to decide what to do, we were each given a day to program activities, and every Friday we did something different.

The younger children were taken off property once a week. On Mondays we took them to the Sullivan's Island Fire Department, let them sit on Sea Doos, and try on Firehats. We then took them to play on the playground next to the fire department, and would sometimes play game like kickball with them. Every other day was spent at the resort. Tuesdays were pirate day, so we took the kids to a treasure hunt at the Grand Pavilion, and outfitted them with Bandanas and eye patches. One day we played Water games with the kids, and Fridays were another day that the counselor's got to decide what to do.

Another camp offered was held on Wednesday and Friday night, so as to let parents have time to themselves. We usually took the kids to a movie, or putt-putt. On the nights we stayed on property, we went to play capture the flag with on the resort, it was a glow-in-the-dark game that was played on Wednesday nights.