SATURDAY -- Today, when I got to the library family storytelling was already in full swing with Teresa singing "Shake my Wiggles Away". Rubina and Cecile were at the reference desk. Lynne and Andrew, the library pages were shelving. My task for the day was quite easy. There was a bookcart filled with new boardbooks and I was to process them. Apparently, they were not even to be cataloged but just barcoded, processed with stickers on the spine and then placed on the shelves. I worked on processing the new books hoping I could get them all done by the time I left in the afternoon.
I stopped and took a lunch break around 12:30pm. Lynn made an "In & Out Burgers" run and I asked for a double cheeseburger with fries and a coke...animal style. I did not have time to grab something to eat when I left the house in the morning so by the time Lynn got back from her burger run, I was starving. We went to the backroom (Lynn, Cecile and I) and ate my burger with much gusto. While eating, we chatted and talked about the new acquisitions in front of us and then we moved on to restaurants and food we like. At the mention of food and restaurants we got to the topic about my last week of work. It's very, very sad for me to think that the internship is coming to an end. I told Cecile that I love coming to the Children's Room to work each day no matter how tired I was from the law firm job. We then started planning on going out to dinner on my last Saturday of work there which is next week. We are going to Mu Dung San, a Korean BBQ place in Koreatown. Cecile did the planning and said she will email everyone and ask if they will want to join us.
After lunch, I began to feel so much more the sadness of my leaving the internship. I thought to myself as I was sticking labels and barcodes on the new books that I am coming out of the internship with so much more than I expected. I not only learned new skills, I also somewhat dispensed of my ickiness about germs. Furthermore, to my everlasting gratitude, I have made new friends in the people I worked with, each of them contributing plenty of great knowledge to this wonderful experience.
Around 1:30pm, we had to prepare for the Swazzle (http://www.swazzle.com). A group that does puppet shows. It was, I guess, what you can say the culminating event to National Library Week. Swazzle was performing Harry and the T-Rex. I helped out with setting up the area in the auditorium where they were to perform. We cleared some of the chairs. When people started arriving, I directed them to the auditorium which was across the hall from the Children's Room. Although I was eager to watch the show, since I've never seen a live one, I was not able to watch the whole show but just bits and pieces of it. I had to help out at the reference desk because Rubina had to leave at 2pm to attend a Christening. I invited some friends to come with their kids to watch Harry and the T-Rex but only one of them came and they were late. In the end, they just waited for me to finish my shift at 3:30pm.
By the time I had to leave for the day, I was only able to finish processing half a cart of books. It was a gratifying job because not only did I process, I also read the books and listed down good titles I can buy for future gift baskets for friends and their kids. With books, burgers and a puppet show, my second to the last Saturday of work at the library was a quite good day...On Monday, the countdown begins.
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