Weekly Vocabulary April 18

1. Word / Phrase: bilk

Meaning: cheat, defraud

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2. Word / Phrase: blight

Meaning: a plague, disease

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3. Word / Phrase: rancid

Meaning: having a terrible taste or smell

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4. Word / Phrase: tome

Meaning: a large book

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5. Word / Phrase: inhibit

Meaning: to prevent, restrain, stop

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midpoint reflection questions

How has the internship been the same as and/or different than your expectations?

*intenship is completly diffrent than what i was expectating. intenship is so so so from here until i die i will it is so boring. now i realize how much i love the school and would like to spend every our at the school not at my internshp site.

What is similar and different about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment? What new skills have you learned that apply to the workplace?

*the school environment is way better than the workplace. at school we got to stay with our freinds, teachers, play. at work ther is no freedom we have to work and work and that is it.

What kind of relationship do you have with your mentor and co-workers? How have you grown as a result of interacting with professional adults?

*at my internship i don't talk that much, because i don't fell confertable with them, and i have a lot of work to do so i don't have much time.

What challenges at the internship have you faced that you have overcome and how did you overcome them?

*the whole thing is challenging and boring, and i overcome this by asking my mentor to gave me a varty of work to do so sametimes he make me work with john at marketing.

What challenges have you faced in school as a result of the altered schedule and how are you handling them?

*thanks god i am doing realy well on my school staff i am inproving a lot this marking period i got all my grades between A- and A+ so i have no problem, only this blog is my problem.
What goals are you working to accomplish during the remainder of the internship?

*my goals is to finish the intenship as soon as possible, and that is all i ask from god.
What new things have you learned about New York City?

* nothing much

weekly vocabulary.

1. Word / Phrase: abase

Meaning: to humiliate, degrade

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2. Word / Phrase: apprehend

Meaning: to seize, arrest

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3. Word / Phrase: ballad

Meaning: a love song

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4. Word / Phrase: beguile

Meaning: to trick, deceive

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5. Word / Phrase: beseech

Meaning: to beg, plead, implore

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third week assigment.

Describe one significant activity or project that you have completed or are working on currently.

i am not doing any kind of project becouse there is no project for me at my intern ship site. i only need to just enter correction for the books that the conpany is publishing, and i can't tell you how boring that is. i think that if the school need to punish same one they just need to send him/her to spend only two hours their and they will not think about doing any thing bad again

second weak assignments

Describe one significant activity or project that you have completed or are working on currently.

for me it is diffrent from john c, who works with me at the same place, because he is working at markting and i am working at production. so i don't realy need do to projects as he does. i am only doing this boring thing to enter the correction for the books. and tha is all i do until now.

second weak assignments

What did you do during your second week?

nothing much, i do the samething every weak, i am always doing the entering correction thing.

How was it different than the first week?

as i sayed before it was the same thing nothing new at all.

What is something that you really like about the internship?

nothing at all, thanks for the teachers who pick it for me

What is something you dislike about the internship?

every thing, and again thanks to the teachers. u can't ask them for an good. man that sucks

Who else's blog have your read and commented on?

i read juan, pablo, dima, and nasir/but i didn't leave any comment yet

Posted by Mr. Andrew at 10:48 PM

The End of the First Week of Internships

Please describe your internship site by answering the following questions...


What is it?

Teacher's College Press

What kind of business is it and what kind of work do the professionals do there?

this site is for publishing books. the professionals do take the paper frm the arther because it is not yet a book, they edit and fix the mistake and error. and i have to just take the peper and and entering correction in the coppy on the computer.

Tell a little about your mentor.

my mentor is nice, tall, and he is very talktive. he eats eveyday at 1:00 pm.

What happened on the first day?

the first day i went 3:00 mintes because Mr. Nicole told me i can't go with out the promison from my parents and then , Mis. sherin told me i can go because it is just an interview. and when i went their a lady came and intrduce me to everyone their. and then i got to met my mentor finaly and i he start to talk to me form 2:25 to 3:15 and then in the rest of the time he showed me how to do it everything on the computer.

What kinds of things have you done so far?

i have do enter correction on the computer.

What were some of the highlights of the first week? (Memorable moments, cool things...)
nothing was cool at all and it is so boring and i don't advice any one to came to this site.


Please answer some logistical questions...

When do you leave school?

How long does it take you to get to your internship?

When do you arrive at home?

What is your schedule? (What days do you work and for how long each day?)

Who are the two people that can sign your time card? (Your mentor and the additional person)



At this point, do you have any other questions, comments, concerns, queries, or inquiries?

February 15 Questions

-Tell a little about yourself.

my name is yagou rafla, iam from egypt, iam 17 years old. i came to the united states about 3 years ago. in this 3 years i want to 3 schools the first is 303, lincoln, and then ihs.

-What did you learn in the junior internship seminar class up to this point?

nothing the only thing i like and sounds fun for me is when we went to watch the movie the kite runner.

-What is your greatest fear about internship?
my greates fear about the internship is to talk a long time trip each day of my internship.

-What is your greatest hope for the internship?

to be intresting and fun. and to be samething that i like to do.

-What is your internship site and what are you going to do there? If you do not know, what do you think you will be doing?

my internship site is teacher college press. and i am going to work at production, and publish books.

-What will you miss about going to high school as you normally did for the last 2.5 years?

every thing to play and talk with my frineds, go home early, not that late.