Weekly Reflection: One

I had fun this week at the Easthampton City Hall in the Treasurer’s Office. I spent time this first week with the Assistant Treasurer, Joanne, and the Treasurer, Melissa, as well as people in other offices.
    This first week in the office I think I learned more in one week then I ever will. I learned how to communicate with other offices within City Hall to have different tasks completed. For example order to cut checks, I worked with Sue, the assistant Auditor, Sue, in the Auditor’s Office. I also learned how to balance the accounts that the City manages. I had an opportunity to meet with the Fire Chief, Dave Mottor, and help him close one of his accounts and move his money to another existing account managed by the City. I also learned how to use the accounting software on the computers so I could access things quickly and easily. Lastly, I sent notices to people to claim their unclaimed checks so they could be cleared in the system.
    I was asked to do many of the projects I did for my learning experiences and to understand the materials more clearly. I was asked to balance accounts because that is something done regularly on a monthly basis so one would need to know how to do this if they wanted to work in this office. I was also asked to work with Melissa with the tailings project because it is a big project that needed to be done and it not only goes a lot faster with two people but tailings had not been done in a while by the previous Treasurer so it needed to be done. I think that I have started working on some projects that will continue into the following weeks and I expect that I will benefit from having a good grasp on processes that take place every week.
    Given what I had heard from other people, I am surprised that this job is actually fun, but I really enjoy it. I have my own desk that is set up and I work there for the day with the help of Melissa and Joanne, and the day is over before I know it.    
    I did not know about everything I would be doing going into this internship, and it is very different then I expected.  However, I enjoy it and any surprises were positive. I think that this week has given me a solid introduction to the understanding of working on a weekly basis in the Treasurer’s Office. I had a good time this week and look forward to the next.