A little late, I know, and I suppose it's been somewhat of a busy day to justify. I'm definitely getting more experience working with younger volunteers and other interns in this position. I've been charged with initiating a new training system for new employees and volunteers here, and I'm starting to see how this will be an exercise in teaching ways of thinking and professional conduct as much as anything else. I don't know if it's working in a non-profit, or particularly in an educational environment (however informal), but it seems like more and more everything I encounter is in some way relevant to what I'm doing for the museum. I sat in on an exhibition development meeting yesterday, which is entirely out of the scope of the specifics for this internship, and I was invited mostly because of my research interests for my master's candidacy. The meeting was mostly about making visitors comfortable in museum spaces to allow them to get the most out of their experiences. Although the museum's approach to education is entirely free-choice and non-hierarchical, it is important for us to facilitate the best possible opportunities for real experiences for all our guests through a consciousness of self and conduct, I think. The museum needs to demonstrate having fun and investigating novel and unique phenomena for its visitors so that they may be comfortable in our space. Now what this has to do with training and working with very young volunteers (and I mean High-School young, I was shocked when I realized that many of these volunteers were born in the 1990's!) is the consciousness of their college and university level volunteer supervisors modeling professional behavior in order to foster a sense of integrity and initiative. So that's what I'm working on. I don't mean to seem facetious, but I do have a feeling that my training as a teacher will be the most valuable experience to informing what I do this summer.