M-Term: Interning for Council Member Abbie Kamin- Tuesday- Whereas, I went to public session

 Tuesday- Whereas, I went to public session

    My day started with me deciding I am too punctual with times. I got here at 8:45am, and was the only person in the office, again. Everyone else got here at like 9:15. It ends up being a good thing because it gives me some quiet time to write my blog from the previous day! Once Aliyah got in, I had a meeting with her about what she does. She is in charge of scheduling for CM Kamin, special projects, odd jobs, and social media. She also writes all the proclamations for District C. She showed me all of the websites she uses for organization, and said something about how most people do not realize how important organization is in order to be productive, luckily I was brought up on a Montessori education, so I do know the importance of time management and organization, I did not tell her that though, I kind of just nodded politely. She assigned me to write a proclamation for GlowUp Houston, which is a beauty boutique that just opened on Washington. I was sent examples of previous proclamations so I had an idea of what to write, and how to format it. Every stanza starts with WHEREAS, which is kind of dramatic and makes no grammatical sense. Before I started writing the proclamation I went into a meeting with Anna where she taught me how she calls the people who are speaking at publish session today who live in District C or have an item in District C. After calling those people I wrote the proclamation. I ended up writing it twice because the first draft had too much about the owner and not enough about the business, so I re-wrote it to make more of it about the business. It is going to be presented at their grand opening on Thursday. After writing the proclamation I wrote more about air quality, and finished that research. I then read about all the departments in the city of Houston and wrote a bunch of notes about them. When I finished that I went to lunch, and then came back to print a bunch of stuff for Council tomorrow. Using the stuff I printed, I made a bunch of packets for CM Kamin and Kate or Anna, with each agenda item. I then went to Public Session, which was my first time walking in the tunnels by myself, and I am so proud that I did not get lost. I watched public session until 3:00, when I left to go pick up Amelie from school. Tomorrow is Council, which I am excited for since I missed so much of public session today. 





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