Soon to Be Our Last

Hello,

This is Pretty Verma typing and wishing everyone a warmer summer than Vancouver is experiencing outside (the clouds will never stay away I fear). Though there may be less-than-impressive weather, the interns have completed an impressive amount of tasks today, all in record time. Today we worked mostly on the youthcanada website that will be having its official launch tonight (how exciting!) at youthcanada.ca (please visit!). We updated program information, added new programs and did the painful but ever-necessary final fine-tooth comb through of all the information looking for the nit picky grammar bits that still needed fixing. Capitals were added, spaces deducted, semicolons removed and generally had  the formatting updated and looking perfect before the big opening.

Also we had two visitors today, both mostly unannounced. Donna stopped bye in the early afternoon today to ask us how we were doing and feed the entire office delicious cookies. Thanks Donna! Our last visitor was Michael Gelbart, a former speaker at one of our Impact Intern gatherings. he came to look at the site and thankfully was impressed (we had gotten some hard constructive criticism  from him earlier in the day so we were a bit worried). Thankfully that all worked out fine in the end.

Thus, with such success under our belts the interns left the office, only to come back in half a day’s time to start the process all over again.

Over and out reader, thanks for stopping bye,

Pretty Verma

Intern.

Tuesdays are Much Easier

I say this because Monday is always the drag, then Tuesday the “settle into rhythm” day. Our Tuesday was, in my opinion, significantly more stressful work wise than Monday( though that’s mostly because our Internet didn’t fail in the middle of the day). Mostly the boy worked on the youthcanada website with an emphasis on the types of pictures that were to be posted. We wanted good visuals for the site’s visitors, so a picture of a certain dimension was needed that was legally accessible to us. Essentially pictures had to be found that we had the authorization to use, which is a lot harder than you might think. The girls of the office mostly worked on top secret work that is going very well. With google documents and the highlighter function we have managed to hyper organize this task so that any of the other interns that want to join us halfway can, and know exactly where we are in the process. I felt that this was such a great function that I also organized the list of youthcanada programs so that it would be much more user friendly (again using the brilliant highlighter tool). Indeed, yesterday was jam-packed with work, which is why Tina with her Tim-bits and upbeat personality was great to have as a supervisor. Thanks Tina! That concludes this post, snaps for having completed it reader!

-Pretty Verma,  the half-hearted hater of name puns