The Internship

Yay for me! I found an internship with a company that I like in an office I like with people who are cool. The part of the company that I am working for is called Signo Communications. Check out their website, I have given you what should be the English version. I have to get ready for work since I have to leave in the a half hour. But, hopefully when I get home today I will have some time to write about the internship in detail. Like I said, I'm not in control of my life right now so I very rarely know what to expect with the day.

http://www.signocomunicacion.com.mx/ingles/


http://fractalia.com.mx/

Okay.... so I finished what I was working on at work and I guess I have the time now to tell you a little more about it. So, Olga´s Aunt Olga (haha sounds funny to write that) recommended that I call a friend of hers. This guy, Jose Carlos, has a marketing/publicity company and is super nice. The company is actually in two parts, Fractalia & Signo Communications. On the Fractalia side they do software development and technological stuff and on the Signo side we work on the publicity stuff. My job is to create a website for the state of Tabasco that will attract investors to locate their business here. So, on Tuesday I researched what the other states, cities, and countries of the world are displaying on their website. Yesterday, I researched how IMCO comes up with it´s rankings for the different urban zones of Mexico. (IMCO is a research institute, and they have 10 factores that they use to rank the 71 urban zones in Mexico) Also, yesterday I edited an English version of some documents. Today, I finished up my outline, or Executive Summary, and the diagram of what I believe should be included on the website.

The diagram is pretty cool, to make a website you have to diagram how each of the links are going to work. So, for about an hour I played around in Word making it look cool. We shall see what Jose Carlos says when he gets a chance to look at it. The Spanish that I used gets the point across, but it is by no means perfect grammar or word usage. Oh-well

Let me tell you, yesterday when I was reading the information for IMCO I was so proud of myself. It was a 333 page PDF file in pure technical Spanish. I had to read through it to find the ranking system, understand the factors they chose, figure out from all the graphs and charts where the 4 areas of Tabasco are ranked, and all that fun stuff. On the other websites I was switching back and forth from English to Spanish, but for this I had no choice but to just read the Spanish. Then, after spending forever thinking and concentrating in Spanish they through me English work to do. Talk about a switch! Haha oh-well

Well that is all for now I guess!! Miss you guys....