As I wrap up my time with Speak! for the Unspoken, I am working on getting their orientation and trainings in a presentable state. Last week we determined an outline for the orientation and this week I was focused on implementing the content into a presentation format. This is something that I particularly love doing! Creating presentations is such a fun activity for me, even when it can be tedious or time-consuming at times. It has been a lot of fun going through all of the event photos and connecting with some volunteers for aspects of the presentation. The orientation just has a couple things left and then it will be ready for our new volunteers!

Next week, I will be making some outlines for training presentations for the individual roles offered at Speak!. The goal is to get a training of some sort in place for each role, and something that will be easy to reference for volunteers, but also leads. There are documents in place for trainings currently, but we want the trainings to be more consistent, and formatted so that training new volunteers is an easy task for anyone, rather than needing a specific individual to train new volunteers.

Also this week, I attended a Columbus Crew game for the first time with some other fellows from the Columbus Foundation! It was really exciting to experience something new, as I had never been to a professional soccer game. We did end up leaving early because the game stopped for lightning and we all had work in the morning. Overall we all had a lot of fun and the excursion was a success. It was nice to be able to get to know some of the fellows better, and I had a great time! Crazy to think next week is the last week of the fellowship, and I am really looking forward to seeing everyone’s presentations!