Applicable Knowledge?!

Yes! It's true! Yesterday was my first day of applying knowledge I learned from the internship.

How wonderful! Really, its very nice to have to use what you learned right after you hear of it.

Here is how it went:
"So and So (I will not reveal names), are you a refugee or an asylee?" -me
"What the hell is an asylee?" -so and so
"Someone who has been living in America (or elsewhere) but hasn't gotten refugee status yet."
"Then no, I'm not. I'm a 'my-dad-forged-our-papers-to-get-out-of-our-country-because-we-woulda-died' immigrant."
"Very well."

SO something applied. Then we argued about immigration/refugee/etc. and the trials and tribulations and how RIDICULOUS it is that people have to wait (just waiting, no hello, no 'it's pending' notice, nothing) for up to 4 to 6 years just to get a mother or father from a foreign country a VISA into America.
That's wrong.

So far, I've accomplished one of my goals: Learn valuable and interesting facts about "the real world" and use it first hand.

Other goals:
1) Better my Arabic/Spanish/Russian skills
2) Beat the Copier
3) Understand the extent of the IIC.
4) Get real life experience in my field of study (International Studies)

This is good news!
Till the next post...