Wow, where do I begin? From the last time I posted, it had been a while since I was last on TSF. At the time, I was still searching for an internship site. Had I known that getting into the hospitals for internship would take a month to clear, I would have begun the process in the middle of the last semester before this one.

Needless to say, out of the 140 hours I need to complete before finals, I have done 32 so far. I had to leave the site that I was in because they actually wanted me there as an assistant to the instructor of the ESL class. I agreed to do 5 of 15 hours a week doing that and the rest in administrative work.

As time went on, it seemed as if my responsibilities were slowly being shifted towards leading a program, which is NOT what I was there for. I am not a certified instructor or a teacher. I was tutoring a student, a woman here from the Dominican Republic two months ago, and it was going great. I enjoyed what I was doing until the instructor disrespected me. She spoke to me in a demeaning way, and I could already feel my blood boiling. The issue was that I put material that I was using with the student back into the instructor's suitcase, which is what I always did. Before class began that day, she told me to take the material home with me. I forgot, and put them back into the suitcase. It wasn't like the material was lost, it was safe. No reason to go off on anyone for that. I simply forgot because for more than half an hour, I led her class in the lesson while she spent that time talking to my supervisor about why she was staying past the hour when everyone was supposed to leave.

I left her in the classroom and told the student that I would use flashcards for the rest of the evening. The instructor came down to make copies of a workbook that she used to get material for my student before. Then she started again. THAT was the time I put that psycho in her place and then she completely changed, saying that we had to work together and that it would be bad for us to be angry. Really??? I told her that she was the one with the problem and that is when I reminded her that I was thrown off the previous night because I taught her class for more than half an hour. Man, at the end of the night, that psycho was ass-kissing, trying to give me a lift home and pretending that she was being helpful. f*** that! I still told the supervisor and haven't been back since. In reality, they didn't need me for anything more than that, and the administrative position I was supposed to be filling was already being taken care of by someone else.

The whole purpose was to get experience, even though I have worked in an office before. I paid the class and it is one credit. I didn't get exactly what I needed because of the timing, but that was something I could have taken care of after graduation. Now, it seems that this is something that is the only obstacle in the way of finishing up and getting my degree.