Personal Narrative: My Internship In Hong Kong

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Apart from professional knowledge gained, this internship also given me a chance for my own self-discovery. Supervisors and co-workers had told me that I’m a cheerful person that can maintain a positive atmosphere in the workplace, have good interpersonal skills to communicate with different groups of people with confident, and enthusiastic of the assigned tasks.
The working atmosphere in my three workplaces are free and relaxing that are completely different form Hong Kong, my supervisors often gave me a large space to think, discover and create new ideas to makes the tasks right. With this encouragement and agree from supervisors, makes me more enthusiastic and get more involved into the projects, which it is both beneficial to the organizations, services users and myself. I also willing to learn which my supervisors and mentors taught me really well nice and friendly, not only with professional knowledges and skills, but also the knowledges of their local heritage and custom. My adaptability also improved, as the working period in these project sites are just two weeks for each, it is necessary for me to get well prepare to adapt another new workplace environment after I settle down and build up my relations with the locals. Also, as I did not have skills and experiences at teaching, especially teaching kids before, I was worried. But after asking my mentor and …show more content…

It is true that this unique experience made me to challenge and pushing myself to adopt a multicultural environment by leaving my comfort zone, the gaining and improvements of my professional and interpersonal skills help me to better understand what my strengths and weaknesses. The self-discovery process also helps me to understand I need to taking courses of professional waste management courses or gain more working experience in this aspect to get well prepare for my future job

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