Week of 6/18-6/22

This week, I do not have a lot to report on; I was on vacation in Mississippi with My family. I obtained access to a computer as often as I could, and checked email from my supervisor pertaining to the progress made this week. I responded to an email from the Hilton Garden Inn referring to the arrangment of prices for the families attending the tournament and sent it to my supervisor for him to look over. On Wednesday, I spoke with my supervisor on the phone about the arrangment with the Hilton Garden Inn to make sure that it was being taken care of. I have done as much with the handbooks as I can do until the appropriate people have finished looking over them to make sure they are put together well enough. The registration handbook and the volunteer handbook have both been sent out and are currently being looked over. My supervisor has sent me emails referring to corrections that may need to be made, and a conference call to discuss them. While on vacation, I had limited access to a computer, so progress was limited, but I did maintain contact with the office while I was away.

My objective this week is to catch up on anything I may be behind on from this past week, including the handbooks. I believe my supervisor will be out of town this week visiting the site of the tournament, so I will have to maintain contact with him while he is away. Also, I need to talk with my supervisor about a more consistent schedule, now that most of my major things to do this summer are finished.

Strategies: stay in contact with my supervisor, through email, phone conversation. While either of is out of town, it is imperative that we maintain contact with one another.

Internship: Wild Dunes Resort, Charleston, South Carolina
Five days a week, Monday through Friday, we offered Children's crafts and activities on the Grand Pavilion, which is one of the main attractions for families at the resort. The Grand Pavilion is a boardwalk built on to the back of the main hotel at the resort. It has two pools, a grill, a bar, an ice cream shop, and the Island adventures gift shop.
Below I have listed each activity offered on each day, at what time.

Monday:
10 am: Flag Football ( a free activity for kids)
12 noon: Sand art ( funneling colored sands into bottles to make design)
2 pm: Birdhouses (a painting activity, where kids painted birdhouses)
4 pm: Spin art (Children design their own frisbee using different colored paints)
5pm-9pm: 3-on-3 basketball (a tournament)

Tuesday:
1o am: Kickball (a free activity for kids)
12 noon: Hemp Jewlery (hemp jewelry making)
2 pm: T-shirt Tie Dye ( tie-dying t-shirts)
4 pm: design a beach tote (a painting activity where kids design their own beach totes)
4 pm-6 pm: tournament time (a family activity involving games such as bocce and horseshoes)
9 pm: blacklight volleyball (Volleyball played at night with blacklights and blacklight nets, balls, and ropes)

Wednesday:
10 am-2 pm: Summerfest (a free pool party for kids where we play water games, etc.)
4 pm: Family bingo ( family activity where we offered prizes to winners)
6 pm: Candle making (Children collect sea shells and beads to put inside a candle they design themselves)
9 pm: Capture the flag (played at night on the south lawn of the grand pavilion with glow sticks and glow-in-the-dark flags)

Thursday:
10 am: Blackbeard's treasure hunt ( a children's treasure hunt around the grand pavilion)
12 noon: Soccer ( a free activity for the kids, depending on the tides, it was often played on the beach)
2 pm: Birdhouses
4 pm: family stepping stones (children design their own stepping stones using cement, shells and sometimes handprints, etc.)
4-6 pm: tournament time
9 pm: Black light putt-putt (played on the resorts putting green, using blacklights and blacklight pvc pipe to make holes, and glowing balls.

Friday:
10 am: Wacky Wiffle Ball (wiffle ball, with a twist: we decide how each inning is played, run the bases backwards, bat your weak hand, run backwards, spin around before you run to the next base, etc.)
12 noon: Decorate duney ( a painting activity where children paint a puzzle of the resorts mascot, Duney, the loggerhead sea turtle.
2 pm: t-shirt tie-dye
4 pm: Design a fish ( a painting activity where children paint different designs on wooden fishes)
9 pm: black light volleyball

We were trained on how to do each of these activities during our first week of training. It was our responsibility to show guests how to do each of these things correctly. The activities ran the same schedule every week. There were usually two people assigned to work activities every day, sometimes three, depending on the day. When we were finished, we were responsible for ringing up all of our receipts and making sure they all matched up. We then turned them into the accounting department at the end of the day.