The week started with the fellows getting together in person for picture day due to a 100% vaccination rate! When I first applied for this position, it seemed unlikely that any of the experience would be in-person. However, getting to finally meet all the fellows in-person was extremely exciting and somewhat surreal. I feel so lucky that I am able to go in for work every day.

Last week during the Summer Fellow orientation, Dr. Lomax asked us to draw a self portrait of ourselves to illustrate the most important aspects of ourselves and our lives.  I would not describe myself as a creative person. Thus, knowing this task would require some artistic creativity, I felt defeated before I even began to draw and knew that my drawing would not turn out well.

However, this week at Netcare, I learned to embrace my creative side. Many times this week I had to use my written, artistic, and cognitive creativity. I worked to design social media posts for the upcoming month of July, I began to write and design the July Connections Newsletter, and I had to think outside the box on several occasions as we prepared for the Golf Fundraiser. Through all these tasks, I learned how exciting it is, even if creativity is not my strong suit, to be able to have the ability to grow this inventive side of myself. 

As we prepared for the Golf Fundraiser, I received a fun piece of advice… “It is okay if things go wrong with an event, just as long as the guests do not know.” As I look to next week, the Golf Fundraiser is Monday. Since this will be the first fundraising event that I helped to run, I look forward to being able to continue to use my newfound sense of creativity to help the event run as seamlessly, as possible.