Monday, July 28, 2008

My First Post ......

Hi everyone,

My name is Hilda. I am doing my internship at Curtin University in Corporate Communication. I am doing Mass Communication majoring in Journalism and Public Relations. This is my last year, and last semester. Hopefully, if i can pass all my units this semester (finger cross). I have been working at Curtin during holiday until August 19th because I am an Open Day intern. Therefore, I have to be on Open Day which will be held on August 17th for the whole day. This is a requirement as being an Open Day intern.

Let me tell you my role as an Open day intern, I am helping the event organizer to organize few areas such as fun zone activities, signage, volunteer, clubs and markets, and etc. I have to do research on fun zone activities, compare the prices and book them for the open day. The difficulty that I faced is calling people that we do not know to ask them for quotes. It is because I rarely talk to stranger through the phone. But, as time goes by, I get used to speak to people on the phone.

I ever had a really desperate day during work. It was when I have to book games for fun zone activities, they were not available. My supervisor and I were really desperate because the time was really short and we had to book all the activities on that day. Also, the games were really different from others; only one company has this game in Western Australia. We were a bit upset because of this, but we tried to find other games. So, we had to research again to find another games but we could not find any better games than the one that we wanted. But, finally we made it, we find another games and asked for the quotes. Luckily, the games were available for our open day. It was really a desperate day for me but I can learn something from this situation.

I wish everything will go smoothly until the day.

1 comment:

Kevin Ho-pive said...

Hi Hilda!!
Well I read your post and I can tell you that at the beginning it was just telling to myself doing an internship at Curtin …well it should not be too difficult but when I continue the reading, well I was surprised what you’ve done so far is really interesting and a main component in the PR research, obtaining various details about the preferences, what activities would suit and also being involved in many activities at a time such as the fun zone, signage, club and markets…well these I guess are not easy at all particularly when things are not running as you would like them to run.

Well hope you will relate soon about how’s it’s been and what you’ve done.
Cheers