The San Antonio Museum of Art- Week 4

This is my last full week at the San Antonio Museum of Art. As my internship draws to a close, with only 3 full days left, I feel blessed to have had this opportunity. My internship has been more helpful in my development as a person than I ever could have imagined. I never though I would find such a connection to my passion in architecture through this. I remember one of the speakers during Washington week had a quote that many people repeated afterwards, always say yes. While I do think the importance of choosing what not to do is understated in importance, I do agree with the spirit of this message and it something I heard again this week.

During this week, the other interns at the museum and I had the opportunity to sit down with the Latin American art curator. The first question he was asked was how he became a curator which lead to a little bit of his life story. He said that he went to college without knowing what he wanted to do and decided when he was two years in that he wanted to take a brake and figure that out. He ended up going on a trip to mexico and fell so in love with the culture that he decided he wanted whatever career path would let him spend the most time there. So he got a degree in anthropology and later in life became a Latin American art curator for the museum. The lesson he wanted us to take away from his story is that many times in life, you make a decision without knowing that it could change the entire course of your life. Many times, things take on a larger influence in our life than we ever could have known when we started.

In my past blog posts. I've written about how this experience as a young ambassador has shown me the ways to achieve my dreams. When I first applied and decided to become a part of this program, I had no idea what impact it would have for me. I really barely even knew what the program was. It did however seem like the most productive thing I could do with my summer and sounded a whole lot better than working at Academy for three months. Know because of it, I have a new found vision and direction for the next part of my life.

Paola Longoria

This week all my work researching the history and architecture of the museum finally came to its culmination. All of the interns including myself gave presentations on out respective topics of research this past Tuesday. I took all of the people working in the education department on a tour of the architectural features of the museum. I am extremely proud to say that some of the materials I created for the tour may actually end up being used to inform visitors of the museum on its architecture. I was surprised at how easy it was for me to give the presentation. Because I am so passionate about the topic, I just found information naturally and easily pouring out of my mouth. I can assure you that the majority of my presentation experiences haven't been so easy. 

This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend my first YAP alumni event. We had awesome Tex-Mex at Trudy's and I got to me some more awesome members of our awesome familia. Leaving the event I felt nostalgic for Washington week and wishing I could see all my fellow 2016 cohort members. Please let me know if any of you are ever in town so we can meet up. The realization that my internship is ending is bittersweet. I'm excited to start college and feel energized by all I've learned. Knowing that the end of an experience that has been so great is right around the corner is hard to take.