Internship

I have been so busy with my internship! I love it!!! Last week, I told you about Bondurant. Well, I had another event on Thursday, which was just as exciting, if not more! I went to the Phoenician and I had to help access about 40 lawyers on to a bus and to a restaurant called Furio. It has food that is American Fusion style, and it is set up as a lounge. It is very romantic and relaxing. It was a great environment for lawyers. My job for this event was to supervise the dinner and made sure everything went well. I had to make sure service was up to par and that the lawyers were having a pleasant evening. I sat at the bar area, which was far from the lawyers, but close enough to keep an eye on them. I worked on paperwork for my supervisor, and I was able to partake in the same four course meal the lawyers enjoyed. It was sensational! The appetizer consisted of crab cakes, artichoke dip, and a chicken pastry fluff. I then received a scrumptious salad with a vinagrette dressing. It was wonderful! The best part was the main course! I ordered parmesan covered shrimp on top of a prosciutto risotto. It was out of this world! Desert was, of course, the best! It was tiramisu! I was blown away that I was able to receive this delicious meal for free! After the meal, I helped escort the lawyers on to the bus and back to the Phoenician. It was a fun night, and I am so glad I am taking advantage of these experiences! I have been going to my supervisor's office and doing work she is unable to do. Right now, she is out of town on business and I am taking care of all her office duties. It is nice to take over responsibility and be entrusted with all these tasks. I am glad she can depend on me to get the work done! I absolutely love it and I am having a great time!

Seattle and Bondurant!

I know it has been awhile since I have posted anything. I apologize! I went to Seattle over the weekend and it was amazing! It is such a beautiful city! It was sunny all weekend and you could see a picture perfect view of Mount Rainier. The city is so old and historic, and there is so much to do! I know downtown Phoenix is well on it's way to becoming a built up, beautiful city. I came back on Monday and had to work an event on Tuesday. The event was at Bondurant Racing School right near Sheraton Wild Horse Pass. We were hosting the event for the top truck sellers at Daimler-Chrysler around the United States. The clients were extremely nice and so easy to work with! We had numerous activities for the people. They were able to drive a Corvette or Ferari. They could drive speed boats or just ride along on one. They could go to the casino. I was in charge of giving a breath-a-lyzer test to everyone who wanted to drive the speed boats. Luckily, everyone passed. After all the activities were done, a live band from Canada performed while the guests enjoyed a buffet dinner. The band was called Roadhammers, and apparently they are huge in Canada! We were able to enjoy the wonderful food even though we were part of the staff. We also could listen to the music and dance to it as well! It was such a great experience! I worked this event as part of my internship. If you become a tourism major, you can work wonderful events such as this! Tourism is not limited to event planning. You can work for a hotel, CVB, wedding planners, etc. If you decide you don't want to do your internship in Arizona, you can go anywhere in the United States. There are some instances where you can get an internship in a different country too! This major allows so many opportunities and opens so many different doors! I encourage you to take advantage of it!

Panama Canal!!!

This is just a quick video of the Panama Canal. Our cruise ship is actually going through the locks and it was one of the most amazing experience of my life! You can have that opportunity or one similar to it if you ever study abroad!

Internship

At times, the internship process can become a bit tedious. There is a bunch of written work for it, because it is a twelve-credit class. I actually enjoy writing and prefer it to test taking! For those of you who aren't great test takers, you will enjoy this part of the college process as well! I have been doing a lot of filing and paper work for Yvette. She teamed up with the Super bowl this year, and she thinks she will again next year! The Super bowl is in Florida next year. Yvette told me she might need me to be stationed there to interview and have meetings with potential staff members. I am so excited I chose this internship! It has already given me so many opportunities! I may be able to go to a meeting in the Bahamas at the end of May. I have learned how to do invoices and organize time sheets this past week. You need to do time sheets in order to coordinate payroll for the staff that worked. It is all a long process, and you get people constantly calling and wondering where their checks are. It can become such a nuisance and headache! I love the job because Yvette makes it exciting, even on the worst days! I can't wait to see what my future has to hold! I love my major and I love my internship!

Superbowl!!!

Hello everybody! This weekend was exhausting, but it was such a blast! I won't even tell you the hours I worked! As I stated earlier, I work for Yvette at Wingteam, which is an event planning company. She started the company on her own, and is very successful. Yvette and I teamed up to hire people to work the Super Bowl. We worked with another event company called Gameday Management. I actually helped coordinate transportation for the Super Bowl. It sounds tedious, and to be quite honest, at time it can be. For the most part, it was interesting. I started at the Valley Ho in Scottsdale. I had to direct NFL Corporate staff to their buses. I saw Ian Zering from 90210 and he made a point of making sure we knew who he was! That was pretty cool! I was able to go to the Super Bowl, but just the parking lot! They held a party for all the bus drivers and Gameday staff. We were able to watch the football game until the end of the third quarter! We then directed people back to their buses, depending on which hotel they stayed at. There were probably 85 buses there, so you can imagine how complicated that could get! I really had a hand's on experience, and saw what goes on behind the scenes of an event. I learned that transportation is probably not for me, but at least I figured that out early on. I had more fun working with Yvette and working on time sheets and works orders for the staff. It is a lot of paper work, but you have to start at the bottom of the totem pole and work your way up. I was already offered a job for an event company in Florida, because they really like my hard work. The most important thing I can't stress enough is NETWORK, NETWORK, NETWORK! Build up your resume, and take advantage of Career Fairs and job opportunities. You must get your name out there and make impressions. You never know how important they are, and you could get offered some pretty interesting jobs! Take a chance and get out there! I am so glad I have!

Internet Concerns

Is the Internet a learning tool? Is it a form of socialization? Does our generation depend on it too much? Does it define who we are? Do we become immune to responsibility as a result of Internet dependency? Are we more susceptible to laziness and becoming less productive because of the Internet’s unprecedented power? Many of our classes depend on computer access. Does it make us lose our concentration on what’s really important? Learning is the key to our future. We pay thousands of dollars a year on tuition, but is it worth it when we are prone to checking our Myspace rather then listening to our professors? Internet can be our best friend and our worst enemy. It can hinder our education. It can cause the inability to focus on the important things in life. Will children ten years from now even know what a book is? Will they know how to write their own papers or just depend on the Internet and plagiarize? The Internet is a malevolent tool, yet we are enforced to use it. I don’t know what to believe honestly. I feel for educational purposes, the Internet is a necessity. Yet, it is like an oxymoron. It’s good and bad. It’s our friend and our foe. It is used to find relationships, and it breaks relationships up. It is used to make new friends, and it creates enemies. It creates compliments and insults. It is so hard to understand! It is like a magnetic force. As much as we don’t want to depend on it, it has a way of pulling us back. Will the Internet ever be used for the right purpose or will it continue to get exploited? I just don’t know anymore. You think the world we live in is scary. Well I have news for you. It has become a heck of a lot scarier, and I don’t see it changing anytime soon.