My first week on the job was nothing I expected. I was hired as the Education Intern so I thought I would be working on field trips, tour groups, and development of activities for kids, but while its the off season I have been working on social media posts. I am not the most social media gung-ho guy so it has been difficult to adapt to a supervisor that would like to post two times a day if she could. I adore the environment of the memorial and all of the wonderful volunteers that I have met and learned from in the past two weeks. I just don’t know that I am really happy with what I have been doing. It feels as though I go in for 8 hours or so every week without gaining progress in my skills. I would like to work on education pedagogy and developing these activities for kids while also teaching them. Happily I am taking on a project of organizing a merit badge for the boy scouts on our scout day event but I wish I were doing more. It has certainly been interesting seeing how a small organization runs a monument and how drastic change can be made with new administration. Change and regime was not what I was expecting to see with D-Day. I hope to work more with the education side and hopefully take some more tours in the near future. I have so much to learn about D Day but I engage well with the material. I look forward to getting involved with more scholars and veterans of the event within the coming weeks.
Matt Myers