Putting A Smile On Every Face

Hey guys!

This week and last week in this internship has been extremely demanding but incredibly fun as well! It's been demanding and hectic because we (the interns and Mr. Justin and I) are coordinating a community carnival for the kids/families in the Hikone community. Running this carnival has been stressful, but hopefully everything comes together nicely and all the kids have a great time, because of course that's what this is all about, making sure the kids are happy!

Today, the team had sort of a "down-time day". We went to Briarwood mall as well as the dollar movie. It was tons of fun and I think everyone needed it. After the mall and movies, we went back to work and went shopping at the Dollar Tree for various supplies needed for the Carnival. We managed to get some of the necessities but not everything was available to us, so we're going to have to search elsewhere, and that shouldn't be a problem, I mean we sort of have time.

Besides preparing for the Carnival on Thursday, I have been working on scheduling trips for us to various local child care/day care centers and possibly having interviews with their directors. So far I have managed to schedule one visit at the Community Day Care Center in Ann Arbor. When I was first given this assignment, I already had in mind what day care I wanted to call first: KinderCare. As a young girl, my mother enrolled me in their program. I knew they wouldn't remember but I figured (from what I remembered) that it wouldn't be a problem. But as it turned out, they basically gave me the "run-around", I would ask for their director and for some reason she would always be "out of the office", or "away from her desk", I took this experience and took a lesson from it: Lesson #1 - If you don't think that something can happen, just tell the customer/person that's asking what's really going on. Don't tell them, to call back later or give them the "run-around", just be straight up and professional.

But anyway, today as been great and i'm hoping that for the duration of our internship everyday can be like this one!

As always thanks for reading, and god bless ♥