Post 4 - Mid Point Reflection

The primary mission of the Coney Island Hospital is to help their community to stay healthy. I was expecting to help nurses but my supervisor said that youth volunteers are not allowed to work with doctors and nurses. I was expecting to deal with different kind of people and learn more about the health profession and I learned many new things and that what is the best way to deal with every kind of people. At Coney Island Hospital we have to behave mature and we have to take many responsibilities. We have to behave like adults. At school our teachers guide us and tell us that how we should behave but at Coney Island Hospital we have to learn by our self that what is the best way to behave with different kind of people, which is a little tough. I don't work with my mentor. I don't know her really well but she is nice and ready to help anytime. The lady, I work with, is really nice, helpful and friendly. She teach me how to work at nursing department and how important it is. I really like working with her.I am trying my best to take more responsibilities and try to become more mature. I learned that I always have to behave like an adult. In IHSL everyone knows that not every student can speak perfect English. But at Coney Island Hospital not everyone knows that we can't speak english perfect. My english had been improved since I started going to Coney Island Hospital. My learning skills have been improved because every day I get to learn a new thing. Everyday they teach me different things about nursing department. Also my writing is getting better because sometimes they make me write on some papers. I have to make sure that I am writing everything neatly and clearly. That's the first time I got the chance to go out and work with adults. The most challenging part was that I just had to work for 2 and half hours each day and I used to get tired really quickly. But then I thought that I need to get used to face challenges and I need to learn how to work hard. Before internship I had time to finish my work but now I get tired quickly because I never worked anywhere before. And when I get home I am so tired that I don't want to finish my homework. I mostly try to finish my homework in school. I come before school for tutoring to finish my homework. I am trying to learn from my internship as much as I can. I think I will keep volunteering at Coney Island Hospital. I will volunteer every weekends. My friends also want to become volunteers at Coney Island Hospital because they really like the work I do. I learned that we have to face with different kind of people every day. We have to follow rules and become responsible.

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