Blog 21: Mentorship

Content:
Literal

•   Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog: DONE

• Contact Name and Mentorship Place
• Lisa Caballero
• Law Office of Antonio J. Bestard 

Interpretive

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

• Being able to experience the force of the law firsthand. Sometimes things you see in movies and shows seem to be surreal and even sometimes unbelievable, but when personally being able to see these cases actually happen it puts it under a whole different perspective. It has made me open my eyes that these events actually happen

Applied

     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.

• Drugs are ever occurring in our society, so of course they continue to happen in the courts of law. Being able to get the opinion of a professional who sees these drug cases first hand gave me a perspective I would have never of gotten alone. They have experienced many things affected by drugs whether it was murder, rape, or theft they knew that regardless, drugs has had an effect on our society which helped me keep an unbiased view between legalization and an increasing of penalties.

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 Hours check

Content:

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship? At the law offices of Antonio J. Bestard.
2.   Who is your contact? Antonio J. Bestard/ Lisa (I'm sorry I don't recall her last name!)
3.   How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)? 21:30

4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did. I have probably gone through the lives and problems of people by simply going through their files in an attempt to organize them all. I've learned terms, (like what certain penal codes mean, you would be surprised the amount of people that get arrested for minor drug offenses). Despite the tedious task, I'm still entertained by the stories Lisa has to share with me.
5.   Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number confirming who they should call to verify it. done

ps. I'm sorry this is late Purther!

Blog 2: Summer Mentorship

Literal: 

1.       (Know) Using google doc (drive) link a log of specific hours and a description of your duties (click here for an example) to your blog post.

·       https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkBK3jsgXuaUdEJGYVBGTmpsdnF0c1U5QVE4dEcxN3c&usp=sharing

2.       What is the contact name & number of where you volunteered?   

·         Joel Rivera Vega: (909)544-3145  

3.       (Need to know) What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience?  List them. 

•  Is this really for me?
• When weighted against each other, is it more difficult to attain the knowledge of the cars, or to be physically capable to fix them. (I couldn’t really tell with just ten hours of service.)   
• Why must some tasks be so tedious to accomplish?

Interpretive

4.       What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

·         The most important thing that I gained was that a job involving any types of cars, requires much knowledge on the different kinds of vehicles. Each vehicle has their unique parts, much like people. I gained it because apart from the actual fixing, there were a multitude of times I couldn’t even tell what Joel was trying to explain to me. Other than that, I gained the knowledge that this subject is just not for me.

Applied

5.       How did what you did help you choose a topic?  Please explain.

·         When I had decided I wanted to do Forensic Science, I thought I was set on finding a mentor on said subject. Come the middle of the summer I realized, it would be harder than I thought, so I settled on doing auto repair. I thought it could be something interesting and new I might be able to get into.  After my two days of mentorship, I realized this wasn’t for me, and luckily I found a lawyer who would take me in later on this year.  So, long story short, my subject has changed from auto repair to now Criminology.