Week 2 BLOG TOPIC

For my internship this week, I worked at a Health Hub in the canal which is basically a place where people who don't have enough money to pay for food and housing etc. can receive the support that they need. This was the programs first week doing it in this location. We were expecting to serve about 75 people/families but it ended up to be around 175 people/families which was amazing to see. We also had Zumba classes going on for people who wanted to join enforcing physical exercise which not many people participated in, but I think they will get the hang of it as time goes on and enjoy it.

It felt so accomplished afterwards knowing that I had impacted so many people's lives for the better. All of those families who may not have been able to have full nutritious meals, are now fully able to do so. It brings me joy knowing that. I had to be very tolerant and very respectful with the people who we were helping and to my employers--so to speak. I was able to learn quickly and each job was extremely enjoyable; even the ones that I might not have been too excited to do. 

Another impactful and interesting was having to use my spanish skills with fluent Spanish speakers. Most of the people who came through to get food, barely spoke any English which forced me to use my Spanish skills and apply them to real conversations and situations which was something that I was actually really looking forward to doing because improving my Spanish is something that I have really been striving to do and applying it to real situations will help me in that department. 

There was a flaw in communication at one point when we ran out of food and had to call the food bank to bring us more. We had to tell all of the people that they had to wait for food and I wasn't able to say it correctly to a lot of the people which made it really complicated and hard to do what was needed to be done and communicate what messages needed to be passed back and forth.