Originally, I wasn’t planning on writing another blog. “What could I say that I hadn’t mentioned before?” was what I thought when I contemplated the idea at the beginning of the week. Then, during the course of the week, exciting things started happening to me, and I felt like it would be nice to share them. I’m pretty sure that to those who have read my other blogs, some of the stuff that I will mention may make them think “why is she saying that these things are exciting?” or “hasn’t she talked about some of this stuff before?”, and to all of that I have one answer: this is my blog and I can talk about whatever I please in it. With that out of the way, let me tell you guys about my internship.
Of course, I did the usual: go to my workshops, spend time with the friends that I’ve made, attend activities, and work in the Poetry Makerspace. But this week something unexpected happened to me while I was working: I met Jane Pfefferkorn, a Cornell College graduate, and one of the people who sponsors the internship program that the college has with Chautauqua. We met when she came to the Poetry Makerspace while I was working. After she introduced herself, we started to get to know each other a little bit, and we found out that we were going to take a poetry workshop together. During the second day of class, Jane gave me a ticket that was originally from her hostess for the opera Lincoln in the Bardo, but since her hostess would not be able to attend, she offered it to me. I was grateful for the gift since I had never watched Lincoln in the Bardo before, and it ended up being a nice experience, as well as an excuse to hide from the sun.
In the past few days, any excuse to get rid of the heat was welcomed. An example of this was when, on Saturday, I was invited to go paddle boarding at the lake with my friends. What started as a plan to put my feet in the water while getting a nice tan, in a second turned into a diving experience when the paddle board turned around, and me and my friends ended up making eye contact with the fishes. At least I can say that my mission to stop feeling hot was accomplished. After the not so pleasant experience, I went back to my dorm and took a shower (to get the algae out of my hair), and then got ready to watch the new Superman movie with the same girls that I hang out with. A movie so interesting to me, that I would have loved to interview the director to ask him about the film, and get to know him more as an artist. I cannot interview James Gunn, but I did interview Kwame Alexander this week. 
Kwame is the Artistic Director of Literary Arts for Chautauqua and an interesting person to ask questions. While interviewing him, I realized that he is the type of writer that I aspire to be in the future: full of love for what I do and committed to sharing it with others so that they too can know the magic of writing. Meeting people like him has reminded me of why I love being a writer. Being in Chautauqua in general has helped me start writing a story that I had been thinking of creating for quite some time. Now that I will be leaving pretty soon, I will miss this place and the people, but I am excited to go back home and put into practice everything that I have learned. But above all, I hope you guys enjoyed reading about my adventures here as much as I enjoyed living them. See you in the next one!