It has been a very busy week at ECDI! In the WBC we continue to work on the Covid Resource Network intakes, we have a thousand errors we need to correct in our data tracking system, and we were on the radio! In the Food Fort we have decided to have our first Farm Stand next Friday, we created signage in multiple languages, and John has been dealing with a lot feedback about the Food Fort from the tenants.

Edgar went on the radio and spoke in Spanish about what ECDI and the Women’s Business Center do. I got to help Edgar proofread and translate the Women’s Business Center PowerPoint. This project and the Food Fort sign project gave me the opportunity to grow my Spanish writing skills. Honestly, these projects I have done with ECDI have given me more of an opportunity to advance my Spanish skills than the American education system has.

I really have noticed how much my bosses actually know me, and it really reminds me of the difference between private and public schools. In private schools classes are smaller and you tend to get closer to your professors than you would at a large public school. I feel like it’s a similar comparison to non-profits and for-profits, as I have noticed that at ECDI I know everyone, more than their name and title. And when I have worked at for-profits relationships are mostly surface level. This piece of non-profits makes me quite happy as I would rather work somewhere I feel comfortable enough to be my truest self.

As a young child, I always assumed that college students have it together. And now as a college student I always assume that working adults have it together.

Something that I have learned from my bosses is that having it together is not an everlasting state, or even a real thing. You know to me they dress, walk, and talk like they “have it together,” they do taxes, and other real adult things, but this goal of truly having “it” together seems unachievable.

Everything just is a balancing game, one that I can only hope to get good at.

Welp that’s all for this week! See ya in the next!
—Joseline