All afternoon Tuesday was spent out of the office! Hurray! Ken, one of my supervisors, and I went into town to run some errands. We had to get a lock box and microwave for guest housing, butter for the CDC, and six boxes of fruit snacks to stuff the 0-3yr old Easter Eggs with. I had an enjoyable afternoon, we had In-n-Out for lunch, then since COSTCO was our last stop we enjoyed their chocolate dipped ice cream bars. Mmm-Mmmm.
Friday I had a meeting with Avis, the guest housing and club manager. We went over the daily specials and events for the club and how we should market them. I left with four specials to create flyers for. I went home 1hr early from work because I would be working Saturday.
Saturday morning I met with the Chiefs of the HS (Health Services) "A"- School Class at 7am. All of the students arrived by 7:30 and we were carpooling to San Francisco 15min later. We drove over the Golden Gate Bridge and arrived on Pier 33 at 8:45am. I talked to one of the Park Rangers, explaining we were from the Coast Guard base and had a behind the scenes tour set-up. Unfortunately, the Ranger we had set-up the tour with didn't show up on the pier, the loading crew was nice enough to let us board the 9:30 ferry (since we missed the 9) and we were headed towards "The Rock." Once we arrived our Park Ranger met us, evidently there had been some miscommunication early on about the meeting place, everything worked out and we enjoyed a 2hr private behind the scenes tour of Alcatraz (and yes- that includes places featured in the movie "The Rock")! I went as the official MWR representative, my duty was to take pictures... I have 160 that will be placed on the TRACEN Intranet by the end of this week.
Last view of Alcatraz.
I felt incredibly lucky to be apart of this tour. It was great to see the students cheer when the Ferry Captain said "Alcatraz Tour Boats are all Coast Guard approved," and then see the rest of the people on the ferry nod or clap their hands in appreciation for the Coasties. One of the students even got to drive the ferry, turns out the Captain was a Coast Guard Auxiliary Member.
NOT TO MENTION the fact that all I had to do in order to go on this tour was pay the $29.99 (tax free on base) for my CG hoodie, and offer to take pictures! =)
Next week is going to be BUSY... Last minute Easter event preparations, and then the actual event.
Wow! They really keep you busy- I think it is great that you get to work on some many different activities. It seems like they have you make a lot of flyers- which is really cool, anytime my office wants a simple flyer, we submit a project proposal to the graphics department. I was a little frustrated this week, we need a simple flyer that we can e-mail to vendors announcing that our new applications are online- a couple sentences, event logos, no big deal, but instead of taking 30minutes and doing it ourselves, I'm supposed to have a huge discussion with graphics and have them come up with something, it is a bit silly!
ReplyDeleteYou have a graphics department? I guess that makes sense for the amount of marketing/advertising the city of Glendale does. It does seem a bit ridiculous that you have to submit a proposal for something as minute as the flyer e-mail.
ReplyDeleteYes, I am excited about all the different things they have me do around here (some not as much as others) because it is such a learning experience. My problem is going to be condensing such a vast array of things I've worked on for my resume!