I am interning with a Lithuanian MEP. He seems really nice, and I like my supervisors. At first, there were some communication issues, but things have cleared up, and now my internship is great. Usually my day consists of grabbing coffee for everyone, taking in the MEP's laundry, getting lunch for everyone, getting coffee for everyone again, and checking the mail. Just kidding, I actually don't do any of that! I have attended a lot of meetings (include the EU-Russia Delegation meeting, which I of course loved. Mary Grace laughs at my love of all things Russian/post-Soviet, but what can I say? I didn't take Russian Lit in high school for nothing!), edited some English, and read a lot of articles. I really like it!
My favorite things are: drafting English emails and editing English (probably because it reminds me of English camp and class with Paulus!), and attending the interesting meetings.
We have been working on getting more MEPs to sign a bill about raising awareness of and preventing food waste. Yesterday, I got back from lunch, and my supervisor said, "Ok, would you mind creating a poster concerning the food waste bill?" Now, y'all who know me know that I am the least artistic person ever. Seriously. In Forensics, everyone said that my aliens looked like triangles (true story) [sidenote: my mama reminded me that we did create a fantastic poster in chemistry class the year before this. That was a great poster. It literally put everyone else' to shame. And yes, Daddy, I used literally in that that sentence, you can make fun of me if you want to :)]. But I put on my game face, smiled, and said, "Of course!" My supervisor sent me all of the information and pictures, and I got started. We only had Paint on the computer, so I started with that - it was NOT working.
Then, as I told Cameron, God must have whispered in my ear and given me the idea to go to photoshop.com and see what was there. They have a whole online photo editing program. Its not super fancy or anything, but it was enough! I uploaded the picture, added the text, saved it, copied it onto Paint, added the pictures of the MEPs sponsoring the bill, and that was that! Well, it took a few tries. Plus my supervisor and I kept deciding to change things, and unfortunately every time I had to change something I had to start completely over. And then they changed the whole concept, which I couldn't do at all on Paint, but again God whispered in my ear and gave me the great idea to use Powerpoint and copy onto a Word document (that doesn't make sense to you most likely, but trust me, it was a miracle!).
Anyway, eventually my supervisor was happy with the finished project. It was a crazy few hours, but I made it! And now I can add "graphic design" to my resume - ha, yeah right! But it actually wasn't too bad, and I would be interested in learning more about editing photos and the like.
Over all, interning is going well! I'll be sure to post more updates as the semester goes on.
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