Week 5 : Small meeting!

 Welcome Back Everyone!

Welcome to week 5, this week was quite the quick and easy one. Most of our other peers for our meeting were away for their own project work leaving the rest of us to do our virtual meeting for the week. I am reminded in these time of the safe, inclusive, and generally kind environment I was welcomed into. Sometimes the slower meetings are chances for everyone to mingle and really get to know each person a little better. After discussing what everyone has been up to and voicing my concerns for my team, we went on to do another training about the ethics of interviews. And why it is important when showing up for a community to have an ethical and trustworthy approach. The meeting was very quick and allowed us all to have a good time after and just talk amongst ourselves. Sometimes having fun i just a important as the hard work we put forward. I also took Wednesday and Thursday to getting the work for VHP going, I finished my first tasks and was able to get some help locating the video files for the story day interviews. Luckily the reorganization process goes fairly quickly but every so often we can run into bumps in the road that require more attention.

My outlook for next week is to actually get some transcription work started and the abstracts going. We have a very ecstatic interviewee who really wants to see what the interview came out to be and the sooner we can get them this information the sooner we can also get these batches archived to their specified locations. It is always very rewarding to see how excited the veterans we interview get about the work they get back from us. It makes me as an intern feel great as well it makes me feel like the work we are doing is making a difference in a world where we need more voices.

Until Next Time!

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