Mentor Interview

Papon: What is your full name?
Aroon: Aroon Shivdasani
Papon: Where are you from (city, state, country)?
Aroon: Manhattan, New York, USA
Papon: Where did you go to college? For how long? Do you plan to go back to school?
Aroon: Bombay University for my Bachelors Degree and Iona College, New Rochelle for my Masters Degree in English Literature & Drama. No – I am not going back to school.
Papon: What was your major in college and what kind of degree did you earn? Did you attend graduate school for an advanced degree? If yes, what degree and where?
Aroon: Answer above
Papon: Why did you choose your professional field?
Aroon: Because I love what I do and am passionate about it.
Papon: What got you involved in this field of work? What inspired you to do it?
Aroon: My love for the arts and a passion to help build an awareness for Indian arts in North America.
Papon: Why did you choose this particular job at this particular company?
Aroon: I founded this organization.
Papon: How long have you worked here?
Aroon: 11 years
Papon: What is your job title?
Aroon: Executive Director
Papon: What do your duties include? Or What kinds of work does your job involve?
Aroon: Concieving, producing and organizing all IAAC activities.
Papon: What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?
Aroon: Lack of funds and resources.
Papon: What do you see as your future with this company?
Aroon: To make it an international organization.
Papon: Do you enjoy the kind of work you do? Why or why not?
Aroon: I love it.
Papon: How has having an intern helped your company or organization advance or progress?
Aroon: Interns help me get the job done faster and thus aid the organization move more efficiently.
Papon: What advice would you give to high school-aged interns (such as myself) getting ready for college?
Aroon: Work hard, play hard, be passionate about something, enjoy life, give back to the community.
Papon: What advice would you give to high school-aged interns (such as myself) preparing to find a career in the real world?
Aroon: Be realistic but stay optimistic. Trust your instincts.

Midpoint Reflection

Day by day the internship is getting bad, because there is no one who really supervised us. Nothing is similar about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment. The new skills that I learned are how to communicate with others, help people with their work, organize office materials, and the computer skills. I think most of those are transferable skills, but the computer skill is the most important one for me . I have good relationship with two of my mentor Aroon and Quak, I really like to work with them, Mr. Quak (One of those mentor) me and Morshed we both like to work with him because he always teach something, no matter how he going to teach that lesson. The first six or seven week we work with him and when he is there we loved to work because we know that we are going to learn new stuff from him. Also he know how to teach others or how to respect others, but there is two mentor, I think they don’t know how to teach other or how to respect others and I really don’t like to work with those people who don’t know how to respect others. I gained the verbal communication skills in my internship site, also the writing communication skills, because in my internship site we have to answer the phone also write down the phone number and the name of the person they want to talk to. Also we have to work with the Microsoft word and make group on myspace, hi5, facebook, bebe, and many more website. I have to faced with a lots of challenges in my internship site, some of the challenges that I faced on that side is disrespecting and lie. I really don’t know how I over come them.






I love to accomplish many goals during the remaining five weeks of the internship. some of the goals that I love to accomplish is, lnew vocabulary, learn more about internet, organize, learn more English. But I don’t know if I will be able to accomplish my goals or not, anyway I will try my best to accomplish all the goals that I really want to. By working with IAAC I learn that people should be responsible for the work they are doing, don’t be late, finish the work that you are working on, help other people. Also I learned that you better lie with people, why I say that, because the first week me, two other intern and one mentor was in the office. Me and other two intern was packing their stuff and the mentor was doing something on the computer. Our boss Ms. Aroon came to office, she saw some trash on the floor, she said “four of you sitting there doing nothing, I cant live in the trash.” you know what the mentor said, she said “I told them to clean the floor.” We was so surprised, because he didn’t tell us to do anything , he just lie with the boss. Also you should disrespect sometimes when people don't respect you.

My internship site

Week Four-The End of the Fourth Week of Internships

part 1
This is a art program. i dont know what kind of business is this but i think it's all about the Indian film. the people who work there i didnt see them doing anything except using yahoo. and sometimes they put things where ever they want.it's 87st in quince the neighborhood is better then the neighborhood where our school is. i really dont know who is my mentor because every day there is new people who i work with... but there almost every day i work with MR.Quak, he is a greet person to work with, because every moment we learn new thing from him and he know how to teach or talk to people also he know how to respect others. what i have done so fare is we pack their office supply in the different box and put the different box in different place. and move them to the new office. the cool thing we have done is when we moved to the new place with Mr.Quak and when we learn about the internet.

PART 2.
i live school sometimes at 11:30 or 11:40. before it took 35 to 40mi but now it's took more then 1hr. sometimes i work more then 3hr, and i arrive home at 7:30 or 8:00pm. sometimes i work for 6hr and the next day i work for 1 or 2hr. most of the time i work for 3 to 4hr from Monday to Thursday. the two person who sign the time card for me is Mr.Quak and Ms.Aroon.


Part 3
the fourth week is not different than the third week because we kind of doing the same work. i like when they teach us new things... like last week Mr.Quak us teaching us about the internet and how it's work. i dont like when those people said do this do that and after we finished the work they ask me what have u done do day?? also when they disrespect us. i didnt read any others blog or comment them because i dont have time to read others.

week-three-life-as-high-school-intern

Every day in the internship we have to do different kind of work. Some of the work that we have to do is pack up their thing because they moving from their old office to a new office. But for three week we keep doing the same work. As soon as we get there we talk to them. Then we take out my time card and ask them to put the time and the date after that we ask them what should we do? When it's time to get out from there we ask them to sign the time card for us, and say bye to them. we work as a group. some times I work by myself. In the internship I work with Morshed and MR.quak. The name of the place where we work it called The indo American art council inc. “The IAAC supports all the artistic disciplines in classical, fusion, folk and innovative forms influenced by the arts of India. We work cooperatively with colleagues around the United States to broaden our collective audiences and to create a network for shared information, resources and funding. Our focus is to help artists and art organizations in North America as well as to facilitate artists from India to exhibit, perform and produce their work here. The IAAC is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law”

take note whatever u have done on that day... like take a notebook write everything u have done... also write the thing that ur mentore asked u to do... and the end write the thing u done also write the thing u have not done....

First day of Internship

My mentor name is Ms. Aroon shivdasani. The environment in the office where I work is not so bad.. I like to work with them but not with all the people there.

The first day when I arrived at my internship place I thought its not going to be fun because they gave us some work to do and the work was to pack their books and some other things. after we finished the work we seat for a while. Also we talk to our mentor, about the internet. We asked him, how the internet work? He told us all about the internet, how it works. What kind of information you should put on the internet and what kind of information you should not put in the internet. What will happen if you put some information that is very secret. Also he told us that what ever we do in the internet others can see it and get our information. I think I learned a lots about the internet.

My goals is to learn how to organized, how to communicate with new people that I never meet before and to have work experiences.

The types of work that I did on first day are, we went out side to get empty boxes, when we get empty boxes we went back to the office and we put all the books and other thing one the boxes and we also level the box, like what is in the box. Also we unpack some box and throw some thing that they don’t need anymore.

What will we learn from our internship?
Can we work in the summer?
what will be our job?
Why they don’t provide any kind of food?