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Week One - Three

This fall semester, I will be interning for a consulting company (that will remain un-named for various reasons) here in Rome. They get hired by other companies and or organizations to come and give seminars so as to promote a more efficient work place. They help with leadership, contributions, resolving conflicts, etc. My internship started as do most internships, with a tour. I met everyone with whom I would be working with. My lack of Italian made all of these salutations to be short and sweet. Fortunately, the people that would take me under their care all spoke English and made an effort to either quickly summarize what had transpired in Italian or only spoke English when I was around. This made me feel much more welcome than I was expecting to feel. My first task at the internship was to proofread both trainee and trainer agendas as well as the corresponding powerpoint. All of these documents were originally written in Italian. Then, they were translated into English and that...

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Welcome to my internship experience abroad! I am currently studying abroad in Rome, Italy, where besides taking 6 classes I am also partaking in an unpaid internship. This blog is dedicated to recording said experience.