In My Intern Shoes...

Hello Fellow readers,

I am Astrid...

I am Majoring in Mass Communication at the end of this semester, at the Charles Telfair Institute in Mauritius.

When we were told that all of us, fellow PR students had to do an internship in order to obtain our degree, it was rather stressful. Ignorant of how Mauritians usually reacted to communication professionals, I did not really know where to start from and how to obtain an interesting internship which would really make me feel like:

YESSSS, I chose well when choosing PR as career... :)

This last semester as a student is rather chaotic and completely wild as we students get to deal with the multiple aspects of our future and present life.

Questions like:

What will it be like in real life? Am I going to succeed or not? Is this job really THE job for me?

Those just collide and go back and forth in our already fragile student mind.

On the other side, this frenzied time is also rather exciting as we get to deal with so many things at the same time that some basic PR principle such as being multi-functioning and being concentrated, both simultaneously, gets to develop itself.

This experience is so enticing that, though stressed at the beginning, I felt rather motivated by the perspective of finally practicing the Art of Communication in real life situations and not just for assignments.

When I finally managed to find an interesting internship (after painful and tiring researches), I got pretty nervous because of all the responsibilities that would fall upon my shoulders.

First Morning:

I am really nervous as I don’t really know who I’ll be working with. I once did an internship there, but it was like five years ago and everything has changed since then.

Now I had to deal with a new office, new colleagues and new rules and, well let’s face it; I was rather different from what I was five years ago.

I could say that my first day at Apave Indian Ocean, was an okay day. At first I needed time to get used to my new surroundings and to my tasks but it really got in to me and at the end of my day I already felt like a member of the team.

What is really interesting in this internship is that the events department is a newly created department and since some aspects of communication had not been tackled yet, I was given the opportunity to add value to it.

Sure that meant lots of work but it also meant that my days as an intern would not be boring at all... And that was all I was looking for...

Working in an event department, sure means that a lot of work needs to be done but at the end of the day when time had come to get back home, I was sure exhausted, but still, I felt this tiny feeling of accomplishment concerning the work done during my day.

Up till now, i am really enjoying other's posts as it helps me realise that I'm not alone libing this stressful situation.

Talk soon..

 

Astrid