So as of last week I am officially done working at the Oxford House. I had a great experience and have made some new friends and met some real interesting people. As for this week I have a final report to write detailing everything that I have done at my internship – which isn’t as hard as it sounds. I feel like I did pretty well and my supervisor feels the same. Like I said I took pictures of my work place as well as pictures of the community that I was working in.
As for last Wednesday, which was my big day giving a presentation to Oxford University about the Oxford House and our potential goals for the future, it went well. It started with meeting my supervisor with a co-worker at the rail station from the tube station where we took about an hours ride to Oxford. Once we arrived we managed to go visit a couple of people who were going to join us for the meeting at their 
organisation. We got a tour, saw them in their work enviroment, and headed on our way to Keble College (which has strong history with the Oxford House). We arrived meeting the warden of Keble College, and we all proceeded to have a nice lunch. It wasn’t the exact lunch that I was expecting at all – it was very elegant: in a private room, a set-out table, having a few courses, servers, 6+ pieces of silver-wear (actual silver), glass bottles of multiple kinds of drinks, etc. I was glad I attended those etiquette dinners back at SVC.
After that everyone went to the meeting room where we met up with the others who were in our meeting. The meeting went well: starting with introductions, than my co-worker and I giving our presentation about the Oxford House (its past, present, and future) which followed a nice discussion about the possible way of how we can reach our potential goals for
the future. Overall, I felt that everyone enjoyed the presentation and a lot of good ideas were being passed around (which I wrote down and made sure to leave a copy with my supervisor – they also got sent to everyone who attended). I also felt that this moment was very important for the Oxford House because it started the ball to start rolling. Of course all the things we were talking about and wanted to try doing for the Oxford House with Oxford University won’t happen over night but its the spark that really counts – I’m just glad to be responsible for helping start that spark.
After wards we left the meeting around 3:30/4pm where everyone from the Oxford House went to have tea and cake. This also gave us a chance to share our thoughts about how the meeting went. I just remember feeling so tired, starting to get a migraine, but happy as well as in disbelief about what we all had managed to do not only that day but my entire 10 weeks with the organisation. I got home that day and fell asleep so quickly that night. I finally could just sleep, relax and feel happy about reaching that goal which we set at the very beginning.
Here are more pictures of Oxford…
