Blog # 4

I attended my internship Monday morning bright and early at eight am, like usual. We discussed upcoming events going on with the service line and then Gloria gave me a couple of tasks to do for the rest of the day. The first one was to call the Temple Baptist Church to get a hold of a man named Tom Porter. The church holds events on Saturday night where guest speakers come and speak. Gloria said that Dr. Smith and Dr. Sonsor would each like to attend and be guest speakers. Dr. Sonsor wanted to talk about back pains and Dr. Smith wanted to talk about the surgical intervention with back pains. Gloria wanted me to call and see if we could get a scheduled date somewhere towards the end of April beginning of March. I called the church, but Tom Porter was not there, and the woman on the phone said he wouldn’t be in for a couple more days but she would relay the message. Once I was to get the go ahead from Tom Porter I was to call Dr. Smith and Dr. Sonsors office and schedule the event, but there was nothing else I could do right then for that. Gloria also gave me a business plan to read over and critique, make changes on, give my opinion, etc, anything that I could do to help make the business plan better. I was really nervous about this because I had never done a business plan before. I read the business plan over and over again just trying to understand it. I spent the whole day reading and making changes that I thought were appropriate. I went back to Gloria’s office and she said I could work on it the rest of the day from home, but we discussed The Day of Dance coming up on Saturday and what we needed to do to get ready for it. She asked me to attend a meeting on Wednesday that explained what we needed to do to get ready for the event and she couldn’t make it, so we agreed I would be there Wednesday. The Wednesday meeting ended up getting cancelled so I was to meet with Gloria at the event at 10:30 am on Saturday, it was scheduled to start at eleven and end at three. I was there at 10:30 like she asked at it was absolutely freezing, windy, and cold. It was a horrible day for the event, especially one that had dancers from all over coming to dance in the weather that we had. We set up our HMI booth, Dr. Sonsor (Physiatrist) and Dr. Allota (Sports Medicine) were there as well to help answer any questions that people attending might have. The dancers on stage were awesome until the rain started to pick up! Then a group of girls went on to perform, and they were fairly young, and one of the girls slipped and fell right on her face, she was such a trooper she got right back up and finished the dance before she ran off stage hurt and upset. The rest of that dance company did not want to continue in the weather. The event was pushed up to end at two. Needless to say it was a pretty bad turn out and miserable for me to work, but the dancers that I did see were amazing on stage.