Journal 1

Journal #1

Megan Ball

I am interning at Freedom Elementary in the 6^th grade. The first couple days that I was there I mostly just went around and met the teachers and introduced myself. Last semester I was interning in the 3^rd grade, and they used me a lot. I was never just sitting there, I always had something to do or prepare for. The 6^th grade does not use me. Which is frustrating. I will go in at 12:45 and go to all six of the 6^th grade teachers, and they wont have anything for me to do, so by 1:15 I am done. My mom works in the Special Education kindergarten at Freedom Elementary so I have just been going in there and helping out until 2:15. Last week when I was walking to the kindergarten, my old 4^th grade teacher stopped me and we talked and she told me that she would use me everyday and would love if I wanted to switch from 6^th grade to 4^th grade. Starting Wednesday I think that I am going to switch to the 4^th grade.

I would say that I am a “the glass is half full” kind of girl. Whenever I am in a tough situation I try to look for the silver lining. Sometimes it is so hard to stay positive, but I try to see the glass half full. I would say most of my friends are “the glass is half full” people. People who are “half full” in my opinion are more fun and like to see the world in a better light, so I tend to gravitate toward them.

If I was a manager, I would prefer if my employees has a good attitude. Especially if they are out in front of the customers. When you go to a restaurant and your server is grouchy and grumpy, you do not have as good of an experience. I feel that it is fair to expect a good attitude from employees.

I used to work at the deli at Thanksgiving as a bus boy, and constantly customers yelled me at if I didn’t clean a table fast enough, it was really hard to stay positive. What I would do was I would just try and think of all the things that went good that day instead of focusing on the bad things that had happened. That helped me a lot to just try and stay positive by focusing on the good instead of focusing on the bad.