Overcoming Challenges in Field Assignments: A Personal Experience

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For the last and final field assignment, I wanted to challenge myself by taking on a previous issue I have had going out on these field assignments. I figured that because Super G is an Asian market, I just knew that had to speak Asian, and I would just have to communicate using every ounce in my body. But I had to give it a shot because when I am out in my career will there always be an interpreter readily available. My first trouble was differently finding the place. I would put Super G Market into my GPS and it took me to this fenced in parking lot. Twice, my GPS took me this parking lot. I had to sit in my car and try to figure out how to get to super G. After sitting for some time. I was frustrated and this was not how I wanted to start …show more content…

Of course, I would be the one to go to the flea market door. But as I walked, everything hit me. The smell of the restaurant cooking native cuisine smelled so inviting. As I continued to walk I was looking over at the market side and having a bamboozled look on my face as I see the words written in another language next to the English word next to it. I turned back to the right hand side looking at all the little stores. Selling different things from hats to cellphone cases. It even had a hair salon in Super G. I was thinking in my head this place has a little of everything, like Wal-Mart. So as I walked to the back of Super G, most of the vendors at the flea market area was closed except for this one guy who was selling oils. In my head, I was thinking, he might be an African, I could do my assignment on him. The reason I thought that was because of a preconceive impression. Back in Charleston that is who usually sells incest and body oils. Quickly found out that he wasn’t. But I loved his oils and even bought some car air freshener made from the oils he had. But I needed to continue my journey elsewhere to find my field assignment

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