Day 6 - Second Internship Day

Activities completed today included continued proofreading by Hannah and me for Ian of Social Justice Week brochures and posters which are now nearing their final stages.  We also examined two notebooks of source documents from the past five years of Social Justice Week activities.  With that process, I could more clearly see the progression and addition of programming from one year to the next.  In 2014, the President of Ireland was the Keynote Speaker!

Hannah and I also arrived early for the Opening of the Academic Year Eucharist as we had reserved seats and presented the gift of the bread during the mass as we had rehearsed yesterday.  The organ music, choir voices, and incense really enhanced the experience, transporting me through time to 1795 and the 10 years it took to build the ‘chapel.’  I tried to better understand the incense as keeping demons away; purification and sanctification.  I also tried genuflecting on the kneeler—I previously did not know there were words for these things—in reverence and humility while feeling the pain as the prayer benches were hard.

In the afternoon, Teddy and Jason continued working on their research, regarding orientation.  Alongside them, Hannah and I continued looking at Social Justice Week documents, compiling a list of events in order to compare and contrast in the upcoming days, and organizing the physical materials.  Additional research included gathering information on Social Justice Conferences and Summits as well as elements of an awareness campaign; Hannah organized the previous years’ materials into a binder.

Today, I have provided the support of assistance with the gift of bread during the mass.  I was also able to provide ‘eagle-eye’ proofreading skills on multiple brochures and posters for the Social Justice Week events.  Additionally, without a collaborative end-of-the-day group wrap-up, Ian may not have come to think of large paper Post-Its as useful in the orientation evaluations and I may not have suggested using stickers for participants to label their top three choices.  Without Hannah, the current organization of the previous Social Justice Week would not be organized into Volume 1, and without me, a spreadsheet to compare and contrast previous Social Justice Weeks would not have been made. 

To me professionally, today I was able to demonstrate teamwork, helping out as needed with an event, and openness to other faiths and practices.  I was able to represent our group and area, build on the ideas of others, and use my research and organizational skills.