Internship Week 1

1. Choose an employee in your company and after a conversation with him or her, describe his/her education, overall career path and current job description.

One of the first people I had a conversation with is Mike Hogan. I found out after talking to Mike for a little bit is that he use to work in the same department as my mom. They worked in the same building  and knew the same people. He left around the same time my mom left that department. I do not know why he left the county but when I talked to him more I found out later that he is good friends with my mom’s friend. And on the way back from Jamul my mom texted me and told me to say hi from her and his old friends. He use to work for DPLU, Department of Planning and Land Use and now he works as a the Lead Hospital Personnel at the San Diego Safari Park.  I do not know exactly what he does at his new job but on the first day I worked with him we planted 500 cypress trees at the Daily Ranch.

2. Describe the project you'll do at internship, including the skills and technology you need to do it and what you hope your project looks like as a final product.

My project this internship is propagating and preparing the plants for the butterfly exhibit this Easter. This is my main project that I will be assisting on. The final product will not be able to be on displayed until Easter. The entire internship will be a general overview of Horticulture. I will learn how to trim, prune, and prepare plants for future uses. We taking small baby plants and raising them to big big and fill an exhibit. Another part of this use is that we can cultivate plants that are not allowed back in the United States. Plants are not allowed to be transferred across the border so plants from Baja California cannot be brought back into the United States. The plants here are the only Baja plants you will see unless you go to Mexico. After those plants have been taken care off. This is one portion of my overall project. Another part of the internship is learning how the park functions and how all the staff maintains the park.