Week 1 (3/13/16 - 3/15/16) 4 Hours

My first week there I was tasked with correcting the grammar of a few descriptions of the products they had for sale. Since this company mainly consisted of Chinese people who had come over seas, there were grammatical errors in most of the documents they gave me to look over. The products that the company was selling were tours of locations around California. Some descriptions didn’t seem specific enough and needed more information with required me to research the topics before rewriting it.

Week 2 (3/17/16 - 3/22/16) 4 Hours

The first work day of the week I was still completing making grammatical corrections to a few of the descriptions and finalizing others. For the second day of work for that week my supervisor gave me a large project of organizing business contacts. I sorted the list of contacts by the type of business and location separated by state. This is important because the company I worked at was a traveling company that required many connections to other travel agencies and activities to construct a great tour.

Week 3 (3/20/16 - 3/30/16) 6 Hours

The majority of my time spent on both days consisted of organizing business contacts. It was very long and tedious process which required me to look up the locations of each business and figure out which type of business it is to properly organize it. I estimated that there were close to a thousand contacts which I needed to shift through.

Week 4 (4/5/16 - 4/7/16) 4 Hours

I was still sorting out the business contacts had a majority of them sorted and was closing near the halfway mark. However, when I arrived the first day of the week they gave me the task of completing a report on the number of products sold, the number of people who attended the trip as well as which mode of transportation was used. The entire report took up one day worth of work, but I was able to complete it by the end of the day. The second work day I continued with sorting out the business contacts.

Week 5 (5/13/16 - 5/16/16) 4 Hours

For my final week there I was simply completing the large project given by my supervisor to complete. By then I had completed sorting out California, New York, Massachusetts, and Florida based businesses which was the majority of the business contacts they had. By the second work day I was able to complete the project and turn it into my supervisor before saying goodbye to people at the company.

Closing Report:

           When I first started my internship, I had no idea what I would be doing. Entering the door the first day I was greeted by Shirley Yin who would be my supervisor. I sat down in the conference room and filled out the necessary paperwork while Shirley gave me a crash course of what to expect. She listed off jobs such as simple office filing to participating as a tour guide. However, I learned towards the end that your job requirements for the day change on a daily basis. One day you’re doing a report, the next day you might not have finished the report and would already be assigned to work on a project. I first started out by simply correcting grammatical mistakes made in the description of some of the tours they were selling. Honestly the number of grammatical errors that were present were so numerous that it required me to sometimes fully rewrite the descriptions. Some revisions would require me to research about the specific place the tour takes place at, which would then allow me to write an accurate and appealing description to potential customers. I was able to further strengthen my ability of quickly research a topic and become well versed in what it had to offer as a product as well as practice my writing skills. This particular project took me six hours to complete over three days. As soon as I was done with revising the descriptions, my supervisor quickly assigned me to organize their business contacts. These business contacts ranged from bureau of tourisms to other traveling agencies to simple cafes. Most of my internship was spent organizing their massive list of contacts into searchable categories. I first separated the contacts by location of their office by state. With over a thousand contacts at least this process took me over three days worth of work to complete. Finally when I had separated each business contact by location I had to then organize them based on their type of business. I separated each into three major categories. The first category contained business that were related to travel, which included: airlines, bus and car rentals, other travel agencies, and bureaus of tourism. The next category were activities that could be done while on a tour many of these consisted of historic locations, restaurants, and interesting sights to visit. The final category were miscellaneous contacts which included law attorneys and property salesmen. For a few weeks, this was my main focus. As soon as I walked in the door, I quickly went about finishing organizing the entire list of contacts. Eventually, towards the end of my internship I was able to completely organize it as to the request of my supervisor, who then gave me another task. This new task was to help others in the office complete their monthly reports. Their monthly reports consisted of counting the number of products that were sold (products as in tours), the number of people on each tour, and the type of transportation take. This was a vastly different task than what I had done before. This caused me to continuously ask my supervisor questions on how they wanted the report to contain and the method of format. I was able to assist others at completing their reports by the end of the day. This unique task of mine utilized the skills of communications and cooperation, something which I had not gotten the chance to use very much in my other projects. Perhaps the biggest obstacle I had was the lack of experience I had with many of the tasks I was assigned. This required me to either quickly understand what was requested of me as well as to know when to ask for help. I learned that it is important to know what specifically your superior wants because it may not always be the way you would complete a task usually. Overall I value my time spent at this company, because I was able to get a glimpse of what an office job may be like. Comparing my first expectations which was non-existent to my experience after completing it, I would describe it as hectic at times and monotonous at other times. Sometimes I would be rushing to complete a task, while other times it was just tedious work that needed to be completed. However, at the end I am content with my experience there because I know over the course of a few weeks I learned skills and that I will utilize in my adult life at some point.

Total Hours: 22