Asia Society Internship 2022-2024

Today was a very full day as I had to get school early and we also had a Mexican celebration and then I had my internship. We first started out by helping out with some work for night market: we needed to make the signs for all the different sections and events at the market. So first we drew the block letters out and then went over everything in black marker. Making sure all the letters were straight and aligned with each other was hard because you have to step back every once in a while to see it all together, but I think we did a pretty good job even though we only did one. After we changed and were about to do another merchandise modeling session, our managers took us into one of the rooms where they are going to install their train to Asia project. The installation was blocked out and they weren't sure yet if they should completely remove one of the walls to make the room feel bigger or only take half of it down. Eventually, through some group conversation and looking at our o...

Today we worked on an amalgamation of tasks. Getting to the internship in itself was a little bit stressful because we had just come back from a field trip in TOK so I needed to leave fast. So, once I got to the internship, we started right away with a little briefing of what our tasks were going to look like for the day. Our first task was a simple storage task where we needed to wrap a flowery arch in bubble wrap so it can be reused. With the three of us it went by very fast and we were able to start on the next task soon thereafter. Our next task was quite a menial one, but a necessary one. There is an event that the Asia Society is hosting and they printed flyers for it, but the flyers needed to be folded, and an insert containing information about the speakers needed to be put in the folded flyer. That took a while but we still had ample time to work on our next tasks, which were more within our department. There were three things that we were asked to do: update a content matrix,...