It has arrived – the final day of my Capella internship at the CSAP. Six months flew by like six weeks! I remember creating my vision maps of what had to be done and thinking to myself...”It’s okay...I have ten weeks to complete each map.” Well, holy cow! They should have a warning label on the internship...and hand out helmets...and recommend wearing a seatbelt! After days and nights of reading, analysing, rereading, reanalysing, summarizing, synthesizing, counting, recounting, calculating, tabulating, concluding, drawing, and writing....the internship project is, for the most part, finished.
In the picture, you will see that most of the items on the “lists”
have a red star...a red star meaning that they are complete J There are other items that are limited to
their silver stars...because they are ongoing or because I just did not find
the time to complete them over the past ten weeks. The poor “Healthy Eating” is limited to its
yellow star...I thought about it, and even tried some days to follow
through...but I don’t think it merits any other star. Hopefully, with the completion of the ten
months that was Hurricane Capella (five courses, one Colloquium, and a
twenty-week internship), I will be able to add a silver star to that particular
item. Here’s keeping my fingers crossed!
I have learned a lot over this internship, especially in
regards to doing research effectively and ethically. I look forward to taking these skills and
knowledge into my Comps and my dissertation project. The school board was very supportive and
welcomed me and my research project. They also underlined the importance of
following through – where will this research go from here? What impact can or could it have on
supporting minority language education in their area? (I think there just might be a dissertation
in there somewhere!)
I should maybe (definitely!) apologize to any family and
friends that I may have snipped (or growled - literally) at over the past six
months. There is no excuse – simple stress,
that’s all. Hopefully, the growling bear
will be hibernating for the next little while.
I heard that growling bears like campfires, smores, and light
beer....just sayin’.
