Post #9

Date: August 17th

 Activities: Updating website, Food Lion run

 Technical Information: Weebly

 Reflection: Today I continued the same projects, updating weebly, organizing labels, and updating the data base. I also had the fun experience of running to the local grocery store which happened to be a Food Lion. I had to buy two dozen eggs and two bags of flour. I think the most stressful part was finding the right kind of flour: there were so many different kinds! Bleached, unbleached, oat, corn, etc. But after finding the correct flour and eggs, and I returned and Ms. Gage was able to continue baking to meet her deadlines.

 What major problems or frustrations have you experienced or observed in your work? How did you handle it? I haven't really faced any problems throughout my internship, most of my work was pretty simple and straight forward. Since I haven't faced any problems, I haven't had to really handle any. I'd say the only "problems" I've had to solve were how to problem solve the most efficient ways to complete tasks I was given.

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