{"id":741,"date":"2018-06-21T06:49:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/?p=741"},"modified":"2018-06-21T06:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:50:34","slug":"week-2-personal-contributions-english-as-an-asset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/2018\/06\/21\/week-2-personal-contributions-english-as-an-asset\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2: Personal Contributions (English as an Asset)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the second week of my internship coming to a close and the whirlwind of the anaversary event over, I have settled into what my personal contributions to CESAL actually are. My main asset is being the only fluent English speaker in the office, which means that I am responsible for translating grant proposals for development projects from all over the world focused on anything from education to health to violence prevention. I find this to be satisfying work because I am able to ensure that the proposals maintain their formality and clarity when translated to English. I feel like I am helping to preserve the dignity of the organization as the team moves forward on these important developmental projects. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another responsibility of mine is updating the website. This comes less naturally to me compared to the translating, however, it is a great learning experience and similarly makes me feel like I am contributing to the integrity of the company by ensuring that it is presenting itself properly. Being an intern, I of course do some grunt work as well such as organizing spread sheets, and I won\u2019t have any freedom to assist in planning projects or anything involving more responsibility, however, I am very happy with what this internship is exposing me too and recognize that my contributions are meaningful. I look forward to seeing how my personal contributions develop during my time here. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The language barrier is slowly getting easier, but the differences in culture and language make the leadership side of my observations different than anything I\u2019ve ever experienced. I don\u2019t believe that I have contributed any leadership insights because I am still observing and understanding the dynamic, but I hope that I\u2019ll be able to take advantage of the leadership opportunities that arise while working with this team. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the second week of my internship coming to a close and the whirlwind of the anaversary event over, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[76614,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-contributions","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}