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The poll on the right is created by me. Feel free to answer it! Anyways, I was offered an internship position from the Boys and Girls Club of Garden Grove! I am so happy about that. Since I'm required to do a quarter long internship next quarter for my graduation requirement, I spent the past month sending emails to different sites and interviewed with a couple of them. The Boys and Girls Club was the first site I interviewed at. I came in thinking that I was applying to work with the kids in the after school program, plan extracurricular activities and tutor. However, they are actually looking for Case Management Interns who work at other branches in the program that deal with troubled students and issues such as truency, alcohol or drug abuse, and other misdemeanors. I was a little anxious at first when I thought about having to work on these cases as an intern but then I thought that this would be a good challenge for me and it will test my interaction and counseling skills. I was proud of how I interviewed at the site. They had me take a bilingual test, which I have never done before. I was so scared! They gave me a paragraph in english and I had to translate it out loud in Vietnamese while a Vietnamese bilingual supervisor listened. I did better than I thought I would. The Vietnamese supervisor told me personally that I did well and that she would advocate for me to be an intern for her. It was so entirely flattering. I tend to have little self-confidence and I didn't see myself as doing as well as others probably see in me. This totally boosted my self-confidence. I didn't hear back from the site after a few days and decided to attend my interview at Oak View Branch Library in Huntington Beach. It was an after school homework help program that I applied for. The supervisors there are so entirely nice and easy-going. They basically told me I can take the position if I wanted it. I told them I had other sites to think about and that I would get back to them. A down side to this second site is that it is extremely far from home (approximately a 30 minute drive from home or 15 minute drive from school where-as the Boys and Girls Club location is 10 minutes from home). Another downside is that I've already spent the past few years tutoring and doing homework help at Friendly Center in Orange. I still tutor there and I feel like since I'm required to do a quarter-long internship, I might as well find something that is challenging for me and will help increase my people skills for future work.

So today, I received a call with an offer for the position. The reason why I was so ecstatic was not just because I was able to get an internship at my top choice site but that it really boosts my confidence in my ability to attain job/work positions without any help. When I got my first job at Krispy Kreme in high school, it was because I mentioned the name of a girl I knew who worked there previously. I worked there fore 9 months and during that time, my employer directly told me that I would not have gotten the job if it wasn't for my connection with a previous worker. I totally brought down my self-esteem. However, I self-attained my jobs at JCPenney, the school food court, and as a student assistant. Now, with the Boys and Girls Club was my first interview site and the first place to have offered me a position. Maybe my interview skills are better than I thought:)