Important things from this internship

Where were the most important things you learned from this internship? Look back to your first blog. Did you meet your initial goals? Why or why not?

Learn stewardship from this internship:

1. Integrity: need accurate number and careful with calculation.
2. Produce: need to read 400 Arizona Revised Statues to find out which will impact the activities of office.
3. Accountability: need to be accountable to understand the detail of every activity.

I think I already meet the initial goal and really satisfied with the internship experience.

Interesting APP

I just found this interesting app called doll. This app can create your own 3D model according to your picture. And also you can make your 3D doll singing and dancing. So much fun!

Here is my own 3D doll!  LOL!

What are the strengths of your organization

What are the strengths of your organization? If you were in charge of a similar organization, are there any thing you would do differently?

The strengths of my organization:

1.      There are six divisions of the office and the responsibility of each division is very clear.

2.      The SharePoint created by the IT division make the work much more efficient and easy for every managers to track their work process.

3.      Since one of my organization’s main tasks is collect property tax in the county, thus the quality of customer service is so important for the office. They have a detailed service manual to direct the cashiers how to offer a good service for the public.

If I was in charge of a similar organization, I don’t think I will do something differently. Since this is a government office, it is not easy to change the way they do or how they operate. But if that is possible, I may want to change the decoration of the office. I may let the office have more colors and make the office looks full of vitality if I have the budget…

Career Service

 

On May 25^th, I attended the career conference hold by ASU in downtown phoenix.

The first thing I want to say is that I am so glad they had a photography service there and finally I got an professional photo for my LinkedIn, although I am not pretty in that photo.

There were almost 50 organizations in that conference and most of them were government and nonprofit organizations.  Since my major is public administration, it was really a good conference for me to have a talk with the recruiter of those organizations. But as an international student, I was a little disappointed because most of the organizations only open to U.S citizens.  

Anyway, this career service afforded me a lot of career information and I think I will definitely go again.

Cooking

Do I love cook? Yes!
Do I love wash dishes? No!
That's why I always struggling whether I should cook or not!

Today, I just want something spicy to eat. So I made the spicy pot and I should say it was so delicious !
I may open a restaurant！

Jiuzhaigou Valley

Last summer, I went back to China and had a really good trip with my parents! There is a very famous valley, called Juizhagou Valley. The river and water can be six to seven colors.

This place actually full of the Tibetan nationality and I really like their own costumes!

St Patrick's Day

There was a new activity in our office! St Patrick's Day! Everyone in the office brought some "green" food and had a nice party!

That's my first time to celebrate the St Patrick;s day and I thought is was fun and interesting! Because in China, green hat means infidelity. So if you heard some Chinese said somebody has a green hat, that always means his or her parter is cheating. Aha, different culture!

DO NOT tell my boyfriend that I wear a green hat!

How does your organization demonstrate public service and urban governance

Since I am the intern in Treasurer' Office, the main job for this office is property tax collection and some investment , fund transaction for the the county. So the public service for this office is obviously try to provide the residents convenient accessibility to pay their fair share of taxes using online technology to access real-time information and make payments.

People used to receive paper form and tax bill. They fill the bill and then send back to Treasurer's Office. But right now, for the public's convenience, the office tried to encourage people use the on-line system to make the payment. This method actually can be timesaving and also easy for the public to review their payments.

Back to art again!

Haven't draw for a while!

I need to practice my graphic skill and at least not forget how to draw a picture!

Thus, I drew a traditional Chinese painting this afternoon. I always addict to the ancient culture of China and I hope one day I can use time machine to go back.....hah!