Week 3

The third stop on my rotation was the College Lakes rec center. At this center my duties were pretty much the same as others but I was a little more active here than at my prior two. The first day I was there I had to opportunity to work the baseball/softball draft, which was an experience because I really didn't think the draft for children would be as serious as it was. They made the children go through skills assesments like they do for the pro's. So that was an experience and Saturday the rec center had a big easter egg hunt. Guess who got the pleasure of being the bunny at the easter egg hunt. Thats right I sure did, I piled up 23 hours this week.

Week 2

This week as part of my rotation to the different rec centers I was assigned the Pine Forest Rec Center, which is one of the oldest centers here in Fayetteville. I was able to get more in depth work with the database and I also gained some experience in conflict resolution as well. Since we were suppose to be on spring break i didn't work as many hours. I complied 21.5 hours this past week.

First Week

This photo doesn't mean "jack to me" just learning to upload photos.

February 25th I started my internship with the parks and recreation of Fayetteville, NC. There are two major issues why I got started so late in my internship. My supervisor had death in her family and she became ill with the flu and bronchitis. So it took her longer than we both expected to get back in contact with me about a starting date, but once she got back with me i started the following week. When I arrived at the center i was given instructions on what i was going to be doing that day due to the fact that the rec center supervisor was off. So Monday and days following i worked with the after school program at East Over Central Rec Center. So my basic duties from 1 to 5:30 were to setup the room for the children and then help with homework and then take them to the gym until their parents arrived to pick them up. From 5:30 to 9 my duties changed over to the normal duties of a rec center worker. I assisted in registering children for springs sports, aided in set up and break down of scheduled events, and entering files into the database. I really didn't get a lot of experience with the database because all this week was the last week to register children for sports so every time they tried to teach me we had another wave of parents coming in. I believe that in just one week over 100 children registered for the spring sports. I complied 42 hrs this week, Monday and Tuesday i was there from 1 to 5; Wednesday through Friday i was there 1 to 9 and Saturday because it was the last day to register i went in to help out with the registration from 9 to 5.