Some more complications?

Today I received a phone call from our RWR chair who just got back from New York. I caught her up on some of the happenings, and how Diane and I did not know what to do regarding getting the schools to participate (that was her area of expertise but we weren't given much instruction on what to do). She will be going in tomorrow morning to finish that piece up.

I have finalized most of our vendors for goody bags, and will hopefully be getting that ready to go. Many people have not gotten back to me (particularly Cornerstone), so I will be making one final call to vendors.

We are also having some more complications with our website and registration. The person in charge of our website has been keeping a track of all the lists and registrations that come through our website (including just team registrations). This means that some are not actual pre-registrations. Therefore, I only have 141 pre-registered whereas she says she has 200. WRONG! Now, I get to email all the people that I do not have a shirt size for telling them to please give me a shirt size because they are considered pre-registered. It has been determined that we really need to sit down with her and make sure that we are on the same page.

We are one month out! Don't forget to sign up if you will be in Mac on June 16th!

Almost done!

This week at CASA I received and processed court documents into our system as usual.  I also helped prepare some training material and helped Amy re-create a "Yamhill County Court Timeline" sheet for the new volunteers.  I then made name cards for the each member of the Oregon CASA Network as they will be having a meeting this weekend.  I continued my work in consolidating cases in our filing cabinet to open up more space.  Overall, it was a pretty simple week at the office.  Next Thursday will be my last day there.

-Mica

Back to some clerical work

This week at CASA I mostly did clerical work and processing court papers into our system.  I finished folding and labeling newsletters to be sent out sometime this week... all 800 or so!

I also started a project getting rid of some documents in each child's folder in order to free up space in the cabinet.  

Our cabinet that holds each child's case is really full and so Amy showed me documents that could be shredded since some of them were already saved on a disc.  This project took all day and next week I'll probably move on to re labeling the folders.

That's it for this week. 

Chinese in the Basement

On Thursday I got the opportunity to visit the basement where the Chinese men lived in in the early 1900s. I've heard about this mysterious basement and have been trying to figure out how to get down there (see my last blog entry for the entire story) and I fortunately got the chance to get down there. It very awe-striking! Who would have guessed there is this mini-hostel like space down in the basement of one of the buildings on 3rd Street. I definitely got goosebumps during the tour. It's really dark down there and a good amount of the artifacts are original items the Chinese left behind.

Getting a chance to talk to Matt was great too. He and his wife have been reconstructing the place in hope of getting it back to it's original condition. They have done a lot of research and have been working really hard. Currently, they are unable to open it up for tours, but hopefully they will be able to.

 

I tried to be artsy when I was taking the photos and decided not to use flash on a lot of them, and unfortunately they came out a tab bit blurry. But I think they do a good job capturing the eariness I felt down there.

Almost done

I am currently at the very last stage of my internship that is also the most crucial: completing the profiles for each home! I am still waiting to get a few more materials from the adult care homes to put on their profile, which is why this has been so slow. Luckily, this process is a bit more enjoyable as compared to working on transcriptions, so I'm hoping it will go fast. Once this is complete, I will be sending over the files of each home's profile to my supervisor to have her look over them, and once she approves, that will mark the official end of my internship. Looking forward to completing something that I've worked on for four months!

Wrapping up

At this point my powerpoint is as complete as it can be. Unfortunately I have still not received a response back from CTGR or cultural relations as far as getting pictures. I have taken what I can from reliable sites, but I do not want to assume that any picture is credible and have it actually not be associated with the tribes. I have also utilized their website so that I can have links from the powerpoint to their page.

Just working on the final reflection piece and other than that it looks like I am just about finished. Wish the rest of you the best of luck!

Workload took a dive

Hello!

So, this week I helped Amy get materials ready for Volunteer Training that will be happening starting this upcoming Monday.  I pretty much just made copies all day to ensure she had all the handouts for each chapter of their training.

I'll just be going back to data entry and helping out with clerical stuff, which I'm fine with.  Amy said there wasn't much more to do for me as far as projects go, but she did say that she might need help on a director training manual she was in charge of creating for Oregon.  Other than that I'm slowly working towards sending out the CASA newsletter and I'll probably continue doing that next Monday since there are hundreds of them to fold and label.

Overall, the workload has definitely slowed down now that the big event is over, so the next couple weeks will just be clerical work.

-Mica

Powerpoint Complete!

At this point I have the powerpoint finished (excluding some minor details). I am still waiting to receive pictures from the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, but have done my best to insert those which I know to be credible.

Hope everyone is getting closer to finishing their projects and enjoying these last few weeks of the semester!