I am looking forward to processing our internship experiences with one another. I think our actual internships combined with our blogging, seminars, the reading, and our end of the year presentation banquet will provide for positive experiences in preparation for future endeavors.
For my internship I am collaborating with the McMinnville Cooperative Ministries in creating a small, local, non-profit cafe with intentions to provide meals, coffee, and a social gathering space for the homeless, low income, and entire McMinnville Community. With intentions to use local farmer's good and home-roasted coffee from Guatemala, I am helping transition a Saturday breakfast for the homeless at the Co-op into a more permanent, more resourceful community building space in McMinnville.
I am not exactly sure what the end result will be or what my exact objectives are at the moment because my roles are not quite defined. However, I am in the process of solidifying them with my advisor and through self-relfection. My advisor is Courtney McHill and she is great; not only do we have a positive and friendly relationship thus far, we communicate well together, as of now she does not micro-manage, and we are enthusiastic to collaborate with other community members in building something different to create positive effects.
My goals for this week and weekend to be finished by Monday are:
- create a set weekly time for Courtney and I to meet
- prepare my brainstorming lists for the near meetings with community members whom I will be collaborating with - make sure I have innovative ideas as well as room in my ideas for their ideas and contributions
- finish my research on other smaller community outreach cafe-type projects
- attend the Saturday breakfast at the Co-op in order begin further connecting with the community and observing the current breakfast program we intend to transition
Cheers,
Lacey
Lacey-
ReplyDeleteI am excited to read about how your internship develops! The permanent community space is a great idea.
Katie