A wise girl knows her limits.
A great girl knows she has none.

Tina and I go to our internship every Wednesday. We work at Sir Speedy, a company that does everything from printing to sending to designing. Say, you open a restaurant; you can go to their office and they will make everything for you like the menus, uniforms, posters, business and personal cards, etc. The office is in Tianmu near TAS, and we take the HSR to Taipei, the MRT, then the 220 bus to Tianmu Square.

We get to Sir Speedy at about 9:30-10:00 and check in with our mentor, Roma. She usually has some worked planned for us to do. We began by researching and getting familiar with environmentally friendly papers. I used to think there was only one kind of recycled paper, but we learned from this experience that there are many more. After we were done with the research (and Tina did some Chinese-English text translation) we went to Hong Ming, one of the companies that provides Sir Speedy with the paper supplies. Tina did most of the reading in that area so she wrote down a lot of notes on what we learned there.

Our next assignment was to re-design a brochure for Animals Taiwan, a group/organization that helps stray animals in Taiwan. It was actually pretty hard because neither Tina nor I knew how to use Illustrator and InDesign. But the employees there and our mentor were really patient and taught us some basics on how to use the programs, then we went off to explore them on our own. Our current project is to design a letterhead and envelope for Rong Zhong hospital. The ones they have now are too formal and official, and the hospital wants something that is more friendly.

This experience is really fun so far, especially with another classmate. I think I would have had much less fun if Tina wasn't on the same internship with me. We can help each other and ease some of each others' stress and (sometimes) boredom. Although this probably isn't my "dream job," I'm very happy interning there.