Internship Blog 2 (March 10)

Things are going fairly smooth at my internship in my third week here. I've been assigned a good amount of work and have displayed a good amount of enthusiasm in getting my tasks completed. Over the past week and a half I have completed two presentations for two different professors. All the classes are taught in english which on the surface presents an ideal environment to me to give presentations. However, many of the students are at various levels in their ability to speak english. It's a bit hard to get them to participate, but I believe that they'll begin to speak and participate more as I improve my relations with them throughout the semester.

My first presentation was in a tourism class. The class was learning various terms that involved airport functions and terms. Before I started working on my presentation, I made sure to ask some of the students what they'd like to see in my next presentation. I decided to include pictures of the top 10 most beautiful airports through out my presentation to satisfy their requests and to help maintain their focus throughout the presentation. I also created a jeopardy game in power point on some of the terms my presentation covered and from the current unit they were studying in their textbooks.

My second presentation was with an international business and marketing class. It involved EU and US relations regarding Delta Airlines; how a multinational corporation such as Delta operates within the framework of the EU and some of their business practices with EU based airline companies. I felt that I did a decent job presenting the material, however I was a bit nervous as this was the first time I had met with them.

I was also asked if I could work on a booklet for the college. I decided to accept the challenge and started brain storming on ideas I could use for the booklet. I was presented with a few booklets from other universities and college across Europe, but ultimately I decided to create my own unique design for Edutus. I searched a while for different templates within Microsoft Word and Publisher, but opted for the highest level of creative freedom by using a program called Adobe Illustrator I've used to create maps. I've attached my current cover page to the booklet to this blog post. I still have a good amount of work to do for the cover page, but I believe I've completed the basic design themes that will be expressed not only on the cover page but through out the booklet. I also plan on taking photos of and around the two campuses and incorporating those into the booklet as well. I brought my Canon T3 Rebel (digital still lens reflex) camera with me to Budapest which should provide excellent quality photos for the booklet. I've even asked a few of the students if I could take their pictures and insert them in the booklet. Aside from having simply their photos, I also plan on inserting some statements from them highlighting the academic environment at Edutus and some of the positive experiences they've had there. Not only should this booklet be a well refined product, but I believe it also needs to be designed from a student's view point. Apart from being a student myself, I can also ask the students around Edutus for any of their suggestions regarding the booklet.