You will write a 2-page (double-spaced) Journal entry from the perspective of your mentor. Imagine you are your mentor and you are entering thoughts into a journal entry about your new intern (this would be you).
Try to imagine what goes through his/her mind through the course of the entire day observing you work.
-What do you think goes through your mentor's mind as you walked in to work this past Wednesday?
-What things about you do you think impresses your mentor?
-What things about you do you think you mentor isn't impressed by?
-What things about you do you think your mentor wants to learn from you?
-What stories about you do you think your mentor tells about you to friends, colleagues and family. Tell those stories.
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John Carreon
well i think that my mentor is nice but sometimes i think the kids really push his buttons because he could get really serious and scary sometimes. i think he likes how me and sheryl could help him out and he seems to be really nice and cool about us intering there. also all the teachers are really nice but i think he might forget sometimes he is my mentor and sometimers other teachers just tell me and i help them out. i only met my mentor twice and we the kids would break some big rule he would have a serious voice. but overall he likes to joke around a lot and he seems to really like working with kids. he didnt even mind me working there with him. he was really conforable about me working there with the kids and the kids also liked me working there too and yesterday was reallly fun but very crazy alot of times but over my mentor is reallly nice.
Argent
I do not know what my mentor thought, because he was not at work today, but I believe that when he sees me he thinks about how he can put me to good use, like what I can do for today. So that he can put me straight to work and not worry about what I have to do. I guess he also thinks that I am a pretty handy set of hands helping around due to the fact that he actually trusts me enough to deal with the kids sometimes so I believe I am doing my job well… for now at least.
One of the things about me that impress my mentor is that I am able to work along with the kids and that I am able to communicate and jump right in to what ever activity they are doing. Another thing is that I influence the kids actions. For example, if I start eating some food when it is snack time then the kids start to eat a bit too, and when I tell them to stop or that it’s clean up time they actually stop and clean up. Which is very nice and feels like a great success.
I believe my mentor is not impressed with my inability to know when what part of the day is, or what is the lesson plan, although it is posted at the front of the room. I do not think he is impressed with the way I handle disciplining the kids because the kids are still crying when they start fighting after a toy I took away because they did not share. So they start telling my mentor so I have to give the toy back to him and he does not say anything so I am not sure if he is pleased with my judgment or not.
I do not know what my mentor would want to learn from me. I mean, I am so inexperienced at this whole WLE thing that there is not much I can offer him considering he must have worked her for quite some time. So I do not think there is much he can learn from me.
-Argent
Derick Dragon
i believe my mentor definitely appreciates that i do everythivg she asks me to do and sometimes i do even more than what she originally asked for. i never neglect anything she asks of me, have interesting conversations and give plenty of suggestions when needed. she might tell people that she has a boy scout working for her for no pay but other than that i have no idea what she might tell her friends. she probably doesn't like putting in an extra effort to make sure that i always have something to do. she is already pretty busy as it is and probably alot busier planing what it is that i am to do. she is very nice and full of information backed with a very unique personal history. i really enjoy working with her.
Hanora Bauer
I think my mentor was happy to see me on every Wednesday because I know I help her a lot throughout the day and she is very grateful for that. She knows I'm not a bad kid so she knows I will nope make trouble or get in her way. Plus every time we have good conversations on how to help certain clients or just overall how certain things work in America because she is from out of the country. I think me being a hard worker impresses my mentor because she knows when I come in that its time to do work but yet has fun too. Also in that I do have a good education and can help when we go to the library to work on either math or writing. I don’t think my mentor actually knows me well enough to not like anything about me. Since just recently I switched to a different group I have only been with her for 2 Wednesdays and she is very nice. I would hope if there was something she did not like about what I do or who I am she would tell me so I could try to change that for her. I think she would like to learn why I choose this program, what I want to do in the future, and many other things. She would also like to learn maybe what I will do for my final project so she can start to help me with it. Well I don’t know if my mentor really tells stories about me. But if she did it might be about what we did that day and how it is actually working with a high school student. How maybe she likes me or doesn’t like me.
Germain:
I think that our mentor doesn’t really know what to do of us. We sometimes feel a little bit neglected in our room because we don’t have a lot to do and because our work isn’t very important to the company. I think that our capacity to work together and our imagination impress our mentor because we always find a bunch of creative ideas during the brainstorms, and because personiva has used one of our ideas. I think our mentor would want to learn how we use the communication on the web as youth.
Isabel
Most likely my mentor is extremely happy knowing that i am coming every wednesday at 9 in the morning and will be staying till 5. She probably tells herself "thank God this kid is gonna help me with all these tedious litle chores i hate doing all day!" This is because most of the work i do at my WLE are important but small tasks that help my mentors in the long run but are in my opinion somewhat meaningless when it comes to the whole of the organization. However, if I am able to get all the stuff she asks me to do throughout the day done, well, quickly, and without not to many complications then i suppose I am actually one of the key ingredients that make the organization run smoothly and therefore I have more than exceeded my own expectations as well as my mentors. Which is probably what she is most impressed by me. That I am able to work quickly without to many questions or problems and never any complaints even though in my mind I feel like im going a little crazy. That I get so much work done in one day. That although I am not good in computers I am a fast learner and my work is always and never less than the best of my ability. That I am always pleasant and never show how tired I am of sitting on my ass looking at a screen from 9-5. And that I am not intimidated or feel awkward about the organization itself even though I could hardly relate for what it stands for and I genuinely seem interested even though I do not participate. I have no idea what she wouldn't be impressed about but if she were to talk about me at any type of social gathering she would not talk about any of my unkown faults but deffinitley about what a big help I have been and how I am joy to have around and stuff like that.
Jasmin Palencia
What I think goes through my mentors mind when I walk in to the class is probably that shes going to have an easier day and that she can do more things during the day because she has my help and two other peoples help. What I think impresses my mentor is that I can communicate with the kids and play with them but when I need to get down to bussiness I can work and help the kids out when they need it. Also that the kids trust me and are always there and even though they dont know when to play and when not to they listen to me and sometimes that doesn't happen if you dont know how to work with the kids. I think that she might not like that sometimes i get attaked by the kids and cant stop them or cant get them to leave me alone and she has to get them off of me. Also maybe that I am too quiet and don't talk too much with the class. I don't think that my mentor would want to learn much more about me because I have already known her for sometime even if she wasnt my teacher. But she might want to know what I am thinking of doing in the future. I dont think she tells stories about me because I dont really talkto her much outside of the schol time but she might say how much I help her out and how much the kids love playing with me.
Jasmine Martinez:
I think that the first thing that went through my mentors mind was that she was happy that we were their because they always need all the help that they can get. Also she was excited that we are able to be their throughout the whole day on Wednesday because her other interns only go for a few hours after school so they aren’t able to do as much as she would like them to do. I think that the things that impressed my mentor about me was what she saw on my resume because when she saw it she asked questions about certain things that were on it and she seem to like the things that were on their. I’m not sure what things about we my mentor isn’t impressed by because I can’t tell if she doesn’t like something that I do. Maybe if anything she probably would like us to be more talkative because I think that sometimes I’m too quiet, but besides that I’m not sure of anything else. I think that my mentor wants to learn about our school and how it works, and what kind of work experience I have to see how much I know and what I can learn.
copper````
my mentor is a very nice and bubbly person. i think that she enjoys my help during the work day. i have lately been haleping by answering the phones for her, and doing things around the work space by cleaning and organizing. i think she is happy when i show up to work every day, either because im always early, and there to make her smile, or because she enjoys my devotion and readyness to work with her. i also feel that even though it might be tiring for her to explain things in such etail to me when i dont understand, that she enjoys my reaction to situations. when something gets too frustrating for her, or tiring, i try to make her laugh, because i can tell that it helps. i am hopig that my mentor enjoys this quality about me, and that it is appreciated. other than these descriptions above, i cannot say exactly what my mentor thinks. but i did my best.
My mentor was probably rushing to get ready this morning, like she is most mornings. When I came in, she was on the phone with her sales rep, going over their recent meeting with Fred Segals buyers. She was super excited to tell me all about the meeting, and show me the article written in a fashion catalogue about her label.
I impressed my mentor today with my Adobe Illustrator skills, when I completed a few croquis for her spring collection. A croqui is the model on which the sketches are drawn on top of. Its like the blueprint to making a house. But I was making the croqui and transferring her sketches onto Adobe for the final design board. I also impressed her with my eye for proportion when transferring the sketches, and fixing arm-hole sizes to be in proportion with the rest of the garment.
I believe that the tasks she asked me to do were completed to her satisfaction. I worked on her croquis, which she loved, and mounted the fabric samples for the spring collections “Color Story”. Mounting fabrics required spray-gluing the fabric remnants onto a stiff piece of paper in order arranged from thinnest to thickest fabric on the horizon from left to right, and arranged from lightest to darkest (by fabric) from top to bottom. For example, a tan-chiffon would be on the top left hand corner, and a black leather piece on the bottom right. The color story is supposed to tell the story of the collection. For example, Ritas Spring collection tells the story of this painter from the late 19th century, a lesbian feminist who challenged society by painting woman nude or in men’s clothing. Her collection has that same avant garde approach, and kind of ties into a “lesbian in the dessert” theme.
She seems very curious about my high school life, and how I balance part time work, City College, a rigorous high school atmosphere, a very demanding internship, and a teenage life. We compare stories, our most rebellious moments, how we pissed off our parents, and our style icons. She says she likes hearing my stories because it reminds her of her childhood (or youth). We also talk about what fashion design colleges are good for technical knowledge and which are better for experience. She really wants to know what schools I’m looking into, and what corporation I want to work for when I graduate, so she can help me prepare for the cattiness of a major corporation.
Angelica # 3:
If I was my mentor. I think this is a really hard entry since we don’t really know our mentor but I will answer base on what I know about and how they act at work.
When I walk through the door I would say my mentor is really happy to see me and she is looking forward for me to help her with office work and she is also excited to see the progress on my project. I think that my mentor is not impressed by the work I do at the offices since it might be really basic for her. She acts impressed sometimes but I think she is just being nice. I would think that my mentor would tell her friends about she having an intern and how nice and responsible I am, also she would tell them that is really exciting teaching someone about “the real world”, and at the same time its frustrating since there is too much to do at the office and at the same time having to deal with me and all the questions I am going to have. -What things about you do you think your mentor wants to learn from you? That’s a good question I would like to find out.
Angelica G
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