That awesome 150 hours and more.

During my four-week stay at PISU a lot of tasks were given to us interns. These are voice recording and transcribing press conferences and media availabilities; sorting documents; making synopsis and matrix for the news round up; editing press releases; monitoring news; and clerical works such as filing documents, photocopying, answering phone calls etc.

Sorting :)

One task personally given to me was to compile all the good news about the Department of Foreign Affairs for the month of April. This task is a lot of reading, which makes it time demanding however, it is also helpful for I had the chance to get myself in the know.

The whole internship experience is truly significant. For four weeks there wasn’t a dull moment or ineffective day. My everyday stay was productive and helpful. 

Feeling like a journalist. Hihi.

However, one that I would probably consider that has been my most significant experience was during every press conference. It is a big event indeed for it involves a lot of people and therefore a lot of work. I consider this as most significant for it taught me a lot of things and have me involved in an exciting and challenging experience. Knowledge wise, because my stay was during the Scarborough Shoal issue, I was able to grasp a lot of information about the Philippine position and other terminologies such as UNCLOS, ITLOS and etc. 

Also, in these events I was able to practice and improve my communications skills because there are a lot of people I am tasked to talk to and this is something that is very important for my course.

With amazing girls :)

My internship at DFA is truly such a great blessing. It allowed me to gain useful information and valuable experience, it helped me realize and improve so many things. It provided me such a wonderful work experience, with a very accommodating staff and bosses that patiently taught me important and relevant things which i cannot learn better in other place. With such a professional atmosphere that welcomed me and my other co-interns, again I would say, I have nothing to ask for. DFA-PISU is incomparably great for interns.

After all, maybe I should also be grateful to my college specifically my mentors and our Dean. They're the ones who really influenced us to have our OJT in the DFA, and my internship just proved that they're right in telling that DFA is really the best and most appropriate place for us to learn more about our course and for us to apply what we have already learned. I believe it is also right for me to commend my professors for at some point during my internship, I felt that there are a lot of things taught to me that I guess not really being taught in other universities that offers the same course.

To conclude, let me say this :

I was challenged, I accepted it and I pulled it off :)

PS. (for some) Please don't imitate. Thanks.

Desh

In high spirits

Keeping the ball rolling  <3