For my Senior Project I will be shadowing 3 different places.
1. STR Technologies(IT, Cybersecurity Company)
2. Cardinals Front Office(Cardinals baseball team)
3. HNS Sports Group( Manages and hosts PGA Events in the St.Louis area)
At each of these places i will be shadowing one person being Alex Levinson (STR Technologies), Mike Whittle(Cardinals), Maggie Kehoe(HNS Sports group. I decided to focus my project around getting in experience in the Sport business and Sports management fields. This is what I am going to major in college. I look forward to sharing my experiences
During my senior project, I will be shadowing a K9 Unit Officer- observing trainings, a chiropractor, and learning selling techniques from a supplement advisor. I will attend a police academy where I will learn how to respond to certain situations, court sit-in’s and I will be assisting in a nursing home. Overall, I hope to explore to help me narrow down my career paths post college.
For my senior project, I will be going to a few different places. The first two weeks I will spend at Chesterfield Academy as a teacher assistant. The two weeks following that, I will serve as a teacher assistant at Bonhomme Preschool. For one week I will be shadowing in OT at Mercy hospital for both pediatrics and adults. I will also shadow a child therapist at Mercy. For the final week I will be volunteering at The Rabbit House.
I will be shadowing a freelance Japanese translator who works on online dramas and videos. I will also be volunteering at two animal shelters: The Rabbit House and a cat cafe. I will be helping take care of the animals and gaining work experience at the cat cafe. The main focus of my project follows the translation job because that is what I will be studying in college.
IT IS THE FINAL DAY!!!! AHHHHHH!!!! Here’s how my final day of senior projects was spent. Wednesdays are usually my quietest day at the museum, so there wasn’t a whole lot that I absoulutely had to go do. I started off my day by helping put together the school bus crafts. They are all cut out, but I put wheels on each and punched holes in the others that we did not have enough wheels for. It may sound boring, but I found it enjoyable because it meant I got to listen to my Art Donaldson from “Challengers” playlist, which, not so humble brag, is fantastic. After that, at around 11:00, I got to go on a volunteer’s practice tour. Her name is Beth and we had met briefly before. Her tour was really good and she did not seem nervous or like it was her first time at all, she is already a pro! Then I had my lunchbreak and finished my project presentation slideshow. Then I went back to the busses. I didn’t finish it, but a lot got done! In total, I spent about 5 hours working on those busses. I NEVER WANT TO SEE A BUS AGAIN. Just kidding, but I was happy it was over. Before I left, and I thanked Kat for being such a good host and organizing everything for me. It was a little bittersweet as I walked out and there were even a few tears (or maybe just water) in my eyes. As I got into my mom’s car, I played “I Had the Time of My Life” from the “Dirty Dancing” movie. I am currently sitting on the couch with my hair dye in! I am very excited to get to watch presentations and present!
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Nothing happened, just working on my presentation
Today was crazy, like actually insane. I think I lost some sort of my brain and soul today. OK, it wasn’t that bad, but it was crazy. So, first I Tashi Duncan-ed myself, this is a “Challengers” reference meaning that I injured myself, BUT it was no where near the level of her injury in the film. So, basically, I decided I would go for a walk this morning and to make my walks harder I have been wearing wrist and ankle weights. Normally I do about 10-15 minutes, but today, I did 10 and felt like I could go longer, so I was nearing the end of the second 10 minutes, and I was getting pretty tired. Our driveway is all gravel and has a bit of a slope down where our mailbox meets Fiddle Creek, so I am not paying attention and step on a rock, “snap!” goes my ankle, I fall down, yelling an explicit. Then I go to sit down, and I take off the weights, I stop the music, and I see that not only have I twisted my right ankle, I have also ripped my favorite pair of leggings and badly scraped my knee causing me to yell another explicit! I limp back in and I thought my dad knew, but he was just peacefully watching television and had no idea! So, then I told my mom, she looked at it, and I cleaned it up. Then of course, as we are leaving it starts pouring rain. So, I take an umbrella, but I still get sopping wet! My ankle and knee are fine, but I do think the knee will leave a pretty nasty, gnarly Tashi Duncan esque scar. So, maybe in 15 years, I can obsessively rub lotion on my scarred knee while trying to wake up my husband who looks like Mike Faist at 5:30 in the morning so he can start pre-gaming for his tennis match! Just kidding, but if my husband looked even remotely like Mike Faist, I would let him sleep in anytime he wanted, like yeah, I wouldn’t want to wake up at 5:30 A.M. either, but ironically, today I did wake up at 5:30 A.M.!
I was hoping for a boring day after this mornings events. I did not get my wish (womp, womp). The clubhouse was incredibly packed for both museum babies and storytime. This is the fullest I have EVER seen it for just a regular day. Courtney read for both– head to toes for the babies and books about Jewish people and religion to celebrate Jewish Heritage Month. Afterwards, it was so noisy, my word. There must have been something in the air that day because Elena also fell down! We were sitting on a bench talking after storytime and she goes, “I just can’t take this level of noise today,” and I go “Me, too,” as children laugh, scream, and squeal in the background. Afterwards, I attended a K-12 and Early Childhood meeting where we talked about events for the summer. Then Maria walked me and the K-12 team through this program called “Curator For A Day,” where kids get to learn more about the jobs of curators, conservators, and designers in museums. The program was really cool and she just had us run through it like we were a kids group in the World’s Fair Gallery. At one point, we were supposed to grade the conservators on how they were preserving an artifact. I was in a group with Andy and Ryan, who are both VERY funny. The artifact we had was a lion’s head, which was supposed to be on a flat surface for display, but was propped up some so we were all questioning if it was being preserved correctly. We are writing down a letter grade for it and Ryan turns his paper and he gave it an “F” (it was a joke) and I started laughing so hard. And then I was like, “Andy, what did you give it?” and he gave it an “A” and I was like, “Oh my god, and I thought a “B+” was harsh”.
I also worked on my senior project slideshow presentation for Friday today and I am almost finished. Today, I also found out I got into the Gleich Honors College at Webster. This is really cool because, and I did not know this when I applied, only 15 freshman are admitted, which is 3% of the freshman class, so it is quite exclusive to get in. They said they were impressed with my “originality, creativity, and thoughtfulness” for each of my answers! Stay tuned for what will probably be my final post tomorrow!
On Thursday there was an article published titled, ‘St. Louis’ Juvenile Justice System Is Failing Youth and Families,’ essentially complaining about all of the flaws in the system. The article was incredibly contradicting and poorly written so Robyn and I talked about it. Most of what the writer complained about is valid, however she never addressed any solutions. The biggest thing that I have learned as I’ve been here is that our taxes are what pay for the attorneys, DJOs, CASA workers, etc., as well as the entire building including the detention center. And because those funds are limited, nobody here is paid nearly enough and the building is incredibly outdated. So, when the journalist argued that the lack of improvement to the detention center and the fact that the kids aren’t given sunlight due to the high number of escapes in the outdoor area of the center, she doesn’t take into account the fact that they have no money to fix any of these issues. The point is, these attorneys and case workers are given inhumane case loads and paid way under what they should, while journalists complain and give no direction or thoughts on how to solve the problems.
This week has been weird since my employers have had their hands full with a bunch of legal stuff (don’t worry it’s nothing interesting I promise) so my schedule has been really off. This weekend I helped clean off the insane amount of pollen caked onto everything, moved a bunch of lumber, and painted some stuff for a guard rail.
When I was thinking about what I was gonna title this post, I was like “Oh, like I’ll just do ‘Bonus Content, Saturday’, ” then I was like, “WAIT! ‘Direct to DVD’!” So, it’s like those ads before you watched DVD’s as a kid where it would be like Direct to DVD Disney sequel of like Cinderella or something. Ugh, the good old days with DVD’s, which it’s not like you can’t still buy or use DVDs like we still watch DVDs sometimes and have a player, but it’s not the same. And actually fun fact, we had and used a VHS player still in one of the bedrooms when I was a really little kid and then it finally kicked the bucket once I was around four or five years old, but I loved that thing!
OK, after you read that tangent this is what I actually did today. Today was History Exploration Day (HED). HED is a family and kids focused event that happens once every month or so. It is a Friday and Saturday, so today I helped with storytime. Instead of one of the staff reading today, we had Estafani one of Lindsay’s friends come in. Estafani is a Spanish Speaker who reads different stories to kids groups in Spanish. This was her last event in St. Louis before she essentially goes on tour around Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. She read three books all on Summer themes. After that, I took a lunch break and chatted with Julie and Maggie and then worked the clubhouse front desk from 12:00 to 12:30. After that, I was just floating around. I was gonna do laps all around, but then I just spent the time talking with Elena in the Time Travel Room and then helping her, Maggie, and Julie clean up. After that, we took a group photo with Maggie and we all said bye. I was officially off at 2:00, but didn’t leave until about 2:30. I walked over to the pagoda area again and just sun bathed while listening to music. At one point, I moved to the bench to be under shade and write this post and then there’s just this crowd of people behind me trying to take pictures of two geese! I was like so surprised and I only turned because I had that feeling of “there’s people behind me / people watching me,” feeling. So, I was actually just being a narcissist because they were just watching geese. There was also a guy who walked over with the cutest pitbull puppy!
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