Post 8-Resume

Genita Vokshi

504 East 5^TH St. Apt. Super

New York, NY 10009

Education   International High School at Lafayette, Brooklyn, NY                      2010 - Present

Expected Graduation: June 2013

GPA: 3.7

                    

Activities    New York Cares Service Learning            Club                                       2011

·      Participate in various service projects throughout New York City

Student Government, International High School at Lafayette        2011 - Present

·      Planed year activities

·      Shared information about events in class

School Newspaper, International High School at Lafayette             2012 - Present

iMentor, International High School at Lafayette                               2011 - Present

·      Attend iMentor-sponsored events

·      Participate in technology-based mentoring program for high school students

·      Develop an outgoing relationship with an adult volunteer mentor via weekly emails and regular face-to-face meetings

College Now Program

Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY

·      Engaged on activities that promote college readiness                Spring 2012

Student advisory board, Brooklyn, NY

Kingsborough Community College                                                     2012-Present

Kaplan/New York Cares SAT Prep Course                                              2011

·      Study test taking strategies

·      Take practice exams

Honors     

·      English Achievement Award, International High School at Lafayette  2011                                     

·      Essay- Writing Award, “8 Marsi” High School, Albania                      2008

Experience Early Childhood Assistant, Brooklyn Children’s Museum

·      Assisted children with arts and crafts

·      Ensured that visitors followed the museum rules

·      Reorganized gallery at the conclusion of each day

Peer Tutor, Math and Writing Center                                                                        2011

International High School at Lafayette

Skills           Collaborative, patient, organized, Computer Skills (Word, Excel)

Languages  Fluent in Albanian and English 

Post 7-Thank You Letter

May 18, 2012

Dear Delia!!!

I want to take this opportunity to thank you for the support and encouragement that you gave me during my internship at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. You were a mentor for me but also a teacher from whom I learned and gained a great deal of experience. Yours and other co-workers’ warmth made me feel welcomed and at home. I appreciated that. It was great working at the museum but working with you made it even better. You made the days feel easy and fun. Thank you for being there to help me with everything, especially the first day of internship when I was completely lost and didn’t know what to do. With your help, I faced my fear by touching the snake and the cockroaches. I also learned the best ways to handle the kids.  Because of your mentoring, I’m now able to read a book to my little brother like a professional teacher.  Who knows, maybe one day I’ll be confidant enough to read to a whole group of children.

You also helped me grow as a communicator. Your advice on how to talk to unfamiliar people each day made me a better communicator and improved my language skills. I’m really blessed that I got this opportunity to work with you and with all the other museum co-workers because it was an amazing and a very friendly crew.

I wish you the best of luck on everything you do. I hope I will have a chance to come visit you and everyone else in the museum.

With appreciation,

Genita Vokshi 

Post 6-Photo Essay

Brooklyn Children's Museum is one of the first museums in the world that was ever open for kids. It all started by a woman who opened her house for the kids in the neighborhood just for them to play and have fun. Than this museum was open which is very near to her house and it became the first museum that was ever open for kids. Also, because this museum expanded, it became also the first "green museum" in New York City.

These pictures are showing the parts of the museum where me and Jensy worked. This part of the museum is called "Totally Tots" Everyday, this part of the museum was full of kids around 18 months and 5 years old. Imagine how small they were. Also, they were coming to the "Art Studio" to finish arts and crafts that were prepared for them that day, the house was full with toys, dolls, small houses that kids could play, the slide which was all provided with metallic equipments that created noises all over the place with just one touch. Than, the water area was the most famous place that all the kids were running towards when they were coming to "Totally Tots" and I learned that playing with water is one of the favorite things for kids to do. As you can see on the picture, the sand area is also provided with toys but the sand is unusual because is a blue sand and the first day of internship, our supervisor told us that this is the only place where you can find the blue sand and if someone asks you where the blue sand is, you know what they are talking about. The Cinema is just a place for kids to do their own show for their parents where they can also change their clothes by wearing the ones that the museum gives and the last but not least is the Reading Nook which is full of books where kids and also parents can read to each other. Since I always wanted to work with kids of this age and also have a lot of interesting stuff and places to show to them, this is one thing that went well during my internship because as you can see, I had the opportunity to work with kids of that age and also show them this great museum that can always grab a child's attention.

As I said, this museum had a lot of fun and interesting stuff for kids to play and see as well. Seeing animals and other creatures is one of them. The first day of internship, me and Jensy had to touch snakes, cockroaches and turtles. This is a pictures of one of the snakes in the museum. It was an hard task touching the snake because it was our first time and we were not sure on how it feels like to touch a snake or what the snake is going to do when we touch it but actually, it was not as hard as everyone thinks. I think that being able to touch these creatures was one of my biggest accomplishments during this internship by which i'm very proud of.

Post-5 Vocabulary Words

Word: Advisor
Native Language: Keshilltar
Definition: A peson that gives advice to another person or a group pf people and helps them.
Sentence: All students need an advisor when they start internship because they need someone to help them and give them advice about what they have to do and that's why an advisor is for.


Word: Evaluate
Native Language: Vleresuar
Definition: To appreciate something.
Sentence: Students need to learn how to evaluate the internship because of the experience and the help that they are getting for the future.


Word: Novice
Native Language: Fillestar
Definition: Someone who is new or just a beginner.
Sentence: Being novice is always hard in the beginning until you get used to it and start being more independent and more experienced.


Word: Duty
Native Language: Detyre
Definition: The responsibilities that you have.
Sentence: My Duty everyday at my internship is to help kids with their activities at the "Art Studio."


Word: Initiative
Native Language: Iniciative
Definition: The power or courage on taking a decision before someone else does.
Sentence: She took the initiative to start a fundraising in order to earn enough money for prom and trip.


Word:Smock
Native Language: Kominoshe Femijesh
Definition: A protective garment.
Sentence: Children's at my internship always wear smock before they start using paint.


Word: Apron
Native Language: Platforme
Definition: A garment used to protect clothes
Sentence: Children's at my internship always wear apron before they enter the water area to protect them from getting wet.


Word: Gallery
Native Language: Galeri 
Definition: A big room used for special purposes
Sentence: The museum where I work is divided into different galleries which are used for different purposes.


Word: Collages 
Native Language: Kollazhet
Definition: An art work which is created by using different materials to create a piece of art.
Sentence: At the art studio, kids create their own collages everyday.


Word: Abdicate
Native Language: Heq Dore
Definition: To give up
Sentence: She abdicated from her job because the boss was so strict with her.


Word: Gala
Native Language: Feste e madhe
Definition: A festive celebration
Sentence: The museum is holding a gala to honor the president of the museum.


Word: Reference
Native Language: Referim
Definition: Something that refers to the reader to another source
Sentence: At the end of a project, Ms. Kara makes us do the reference page so she will know where we got the information from.


Word: Agenda
Native Language: Program
Definition: A list of the thing that you plan to do for the day.
Sentence: Mr. Sean always writes the agenda on the board for everything that he plans to do in class.


Word: Flexible
Native Language: Elastik
Definition: When something can be curved easily without being broken
Sentence: If you do yoga, your body will become very flexible.


Word: Restore
Native Language: Rivendosur
Definition: To bring something back
Sentence: After suspension, is very had to restore everybody's faith again.