Personal Narrative: My BSM Journal

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BSM Journal 1 Coming into this internship, I was anxious. I was excited going into my last semester of community college but I wanted to find out how my school schedule would look like with the internship. Driving to Rahway on a friday afternoon to discover was needed. The area surrounding the YMCA seemed nice. Different from my neighborhood for sure. Inside the YMCA looked way better than Plainfield. When I met with the YMCA director, she seemed nice. She was talking about how she wanted to create programs to interest kids. It seemed like she generally cared about building relationships with people more than just getting money out of a family. She asked me about what sports I liked and told me about the Sports director, he sounds like

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