Week 6 at the internship

This past week at my internship was probably one of the less hectic weeks I have had since working here, it also was a some what shorter week for me because I took off Friday. I was asked a few weeks ago if I would facilitate a leadership workshop for the city's teen leaders apprenticeship program, so on Monday I ran that workshop for 50+ teens. This was such a fun experience mainly because I like to facilitate workshops and I am so passionate about working with teens, so the combination of the two made this a great workshop. I had them do a few icebreakers before getting into the programming portion of the workshop, for the program I had them do a program that is called the Leadership Continuum, basically what the purpose of this program is to have the teens recognize that leaders come from all different backgrounds, fields, and walks of life and to help them recognize their personal leadership qualities and what qualities they want to continue to develop. I ended the workshop with a little group challenge to sort of test what they learned that day, I split them into 3 teams and by using only toothpicks and spice drops they had to work together to built the most creative, strong and tall structure in 20 minutes. The teens had a great time working together during this portion of the workshop. This was such a fun opportunity and I am glad the program coordinator ask me to facilitate.
I spent the day on Wednesday at the Tumbleweed Recreation Center that is located off of McQueen and German Rd. The TRC is the city's new state of the art recreation center that will be celebrating its one year opening next month. I spent the day sitting down with the different recreation coordinators and learning about their different duties and what they oversee to help keep the TRC running. This facility is amazing it is two stories with a 6,000 square foot fitness area with two indoor racket ball courts, an in door track and a couple of fitness classrooms. Down stairs they have a kids drop in center, adult lounge, teen game pod zone, a few multi-purpose rooms and gymnasium. I sure every member that comes to the TRC has no complaints because this facility is not only aesthetically pleasing but the staff that keep the facility up and operating are just as amazing as well. I finished off my week by spending my Thursday morning at the city's tennis center and observing the different program that are ran as well as sitting down with the tennis center coordinator. Everyday I leave work wondering how did I get so lucky!!!