I love the internship very much. The people here are great and so are the field trips. I learned a lot throughout the years. If I could do this for my whole life I would.
At first I just thought this internship was just going to teach me how to plant and about agriculture, now I know there’s so much more to it. I’ve learned a lot of things that will help me in the future when I actually get a job in the real world. Since we are going on field trips, we get to meet people and talk to them about their careers. That helped me with communication and talking with more professional manners. Communication skills are everything.
Before the internship I didn’t know what I wanted to do in the future. After I joined the internship, it helped me realise that I really like agriculture and I enjoy planting a lot. I am now thinking about doing something in the future that involves agriculture.
I’ve also learned the hard skills I need for that career path – like plant identification and how to take care of a garden. I’ve learned a lot about different plant species over time. For example native plants. I’ve never really heard of native plants before until I joined this internship. When we went to that little highway garden full of native plants, I learned a lot about how important they are for the environment.
