Thursday, April 23, 2009

Week 5 and Beyond - Weekly Vocabulary Assignments

Post Title: Weekly Vocabulary

list of 5 vocabulary word i learn this week.


1. Word / Phrase: bedside manner
Meaning: is a term describing how a doctor handles his patients.
Context: i heard that there is a doctor who can't handles his patients and hi's mean to them so he doesn't have a good bedside manner.

2. Word / Phrase: tenant
Meaning: a person that occupied or rent a house.
Context: tenant don't pay their rent so their landlord evict them.

3. Word / Phrase: Eviction
Meaning: to kick someone out of your house.
Context: i heard that when landlord are having problem with their tenants, they can evict them but with a warning.

4. Word / Phrase: innkeeper
Meaning: a person who manage a tenant.
Context: sometimes inkeeper have problem with their landlord because they don't want to pay the rent.

5. Word / Phrase: landlord
Meaning: the owner of a house, apartment ect...
Context:landlord makes lots of money.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Week Four: You're a third of the way there

For my blog assignment this week, i will describe my internship site by answering the following questions...

PART 1-What is it?- it's a job

What kind of business is it and what kind of work do the professionals do there?-it's a business where they deal with tax and they sale houses.

Where is it? flatbush Ave

What is the neighborhood like compared to where our school is? the neighborhood is full of people and cars and traffic. i hate is almost.

Tell a little about your mentor. my mentor is nice, she's haitian, she doesn't get mad easily. she is a good worker. What kinds of things have you done so far? so far i've done lots if things such as labels, printing labels, typing stuff on the computer such as apartments that are available. What were some of the highlights of the fourth week? (Memorable moments, cool things, incredibly difficult things...) there were no highlights of the four week. 

PART 2-Please answer some logistical questions...When do you leave school? i leave school around 11:50 am. How long does it take you to get to your internship? it take about 45 min to get to my internship. When do you arrive at home?  it depend, sometimes if i arrive late i arrive home late, and if i arrive early then i get to leave early. and i got home around 4:05. What is your schedule? (What days do you work and for how long each day?) i work four days i week, i don't work on fridays. i work 3 hours a day and 12 hours a week. Who are the two people that can sign your time card? (Your mentor and the additional person) my mentor sign my card when she's in the office and when she's not at the office, her boss sign my card for her.

Part 3-This is a supplemental assignment for your fourth week.How was the fourth week different than the third week? the fourth and the third week weren't any different, they were both boring and i was doing the same old things. What is something that you really like about the internship? i don't know what i like about the internship, if i have to thing of something i would say that it take about 30 min to go home when taking the bus, and that's not much. What is something you dislike about the internship? i dislike almost everything about my internship. Who else's blog have your read and commented on? i've seen everybody's blog i haven't commented on any of them.

Week Three - Life as a High School Intern

third week of internship

well what can i say
this week my task is to finish the filing and labels i was doing on friday and start another. i'm working by me self.
well i'm done with the filing now i have to type apartment that are available on the computer. i have a lots of papers of aparment that are available, i'm not done yet. still no one helped me i did everything by me self.
the folowing day..................
i'm done with everything and i'm tired.