Entry #8

Date: 8/7-8/11
Activities: Counselor dinner
Technical Info: Boss system on iPad
Reflection: I've learned so much more about myself during this internship than I would've doing anything else. When I first started the job in 2016 I knew nothing about kids and honestly didn't really like them.  Turns out I am great with kids and the reason I didn't like them was because I simply didn't know how to work with them.  I've now worked with every personality you can imagine and I've learned how to handle those difficult personalities.  Although I did learn I have very little patience but this job has helped me with that for you can't get impatient with the kids.  This internship helped me decide to sign up for PEPI.  It has also made me consider a career in education although I'm not 1005 on what id like to do.  This weekend we had our counselor dinner.  It's a way for us to kind of all come together doing something non work related and nick pays for all our dinners. It was fun to hangout with some of these people outside of Lifetime but made me kind of sad as I realized the summer was coming to an end.  Ive been spending every single weekday of my summer with these people and i don't want it to end. 

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