bebo cafe' todos las dias

yep. that's about the extend of my Espanol right now. I spend 2 hours working through a Spanish grammar book and attempted to memorize some of the verbs, but by this morning, Beber (to drink) is the only one I could remember.

I know I'm blogging a lot, but that's because it's a good way for me to process this new environment. I plan on starting my communication fast next week. For those of you who didn't get that speech,

Communication Fast: Prof. Corbett's strong suggestion for domestic interns to cut themselves off from all forms of communication outside the context their working in. That means phone calls, texts messages, facebook, blogs, etc. I will only answer calls and emails from folks in Miami. I hope to do this for 2 weeks to a month.

But that's next week, and write now my head is spinning with all that's going on! it's a good thing, it's kinda overwhelming. Dr. Mask has turned me into an observation monster. There are a lot of little things that I'd love to stop and focus on, but I have to move past it. A lot of ethical and research issues have already come up that I'd like to examine, but I can't!

Mary, my supervisor and the person I'll be working the most with, is supposed to be back from her vacation today. According to Yvonne, my job is going to be making a whole lot of intentional contact with the heads of the smaller mentoring programs in the area to get this thing started.

The baseball game Monday night was very interesting. We passed out fliers about the mentoring program. One of the guys' attention grabber was to ask people "would you like to be a mentor?" It definitely worked because it was straight forward, it wasn't anything unattractive like "want to fill out a survey?" or "timeshare in Orlando?" but it got some interesting reactions. Some people were lured in by it, others were scared white by that question. I never thought that word "Mentor" would cause such humility and shame in people. I started thinking about it and realized the pressure that comes with that title. Think about someone who you consider to be your mentor, think about how flawless they look in your eyes and then think about some stranger asking you if you want to be like them. Yeah, scary!

Well, back to reading up on mentoring and trying to translate the Spanish conversations that go on here at the office.