Interview with Delia Meza

Delia Meza was born in Bronx, New York. She is native of New York and has been here for 31 years. Delia Meza went to two different high schools, the first high school she went was to graphic communication art in Manhattan and the second one was city as school in Manhattan. She was not a good student at all but she had two favorite classes, which were English and science, but her least favorite class was math, by now she still hate math. She joins the school newspaper only for one reason; because she wanted to hang out with her friends and she also join to the air force ROTC. But she also went to college three times the first time it was for her associate degree and them it was for her fervency psychologist degree and now she is going to College for her criminality degree. She went to two different colleges, the first one was the College of Staten Island and the second one was John Jay College of criminal justice. She starts all her working time as an intern at city as high school and by that time she loved to work with kids so she keeps doing it. The steps she took to get the job that she has now was for being an good, strong intern and she learn more about how working with kids was by looking at different websites, going to two different colleges give her the opportunity to learn more and also asking people of different museum. Them she moved to live in California for one year and went she came back she went to two different interviews. The hiring process was a little difficult because she had to do an interview with her boss and also she had to do a demonstration lesson plan for her managers. She had been working in the Children’s Brooklyn Museum for 5 years and for those five years she had been an assistant manager for early childhood educator, a after school teacher, writing reports and also an writing grants. By now her job title is a lead early childhood educator and her responsibilities are to teach school class programs and public programs. Delia Meza also has her supervisor and her name is Juliet Gray-Molierb, Juliet is the manager of early childhood educator and Delia supervise with her like about a total of one of two hours a week. And I supervise about like 10 people. Two challenges I had face working here is to teach children’s who don’t want to pay attention and also communicating with other departments. But the best part of my jobs is the kids. It I would like to change something about my job it will be to get better pay, better communication and to have more support. Before working here in the museum I was in San Francisco California and I work in an aquarium, which was call, the aquarium of the bay and I work for one year that job was very different because I work teaching children’s about marine biology. Probably I see myself working here for more three years because them I would work with the criminal justice. I hope you as an intern learn about the company structure and about the museum and what does it mean to be a museum educator. if someone would be looking for a job at my company the advices that I would give to that person is that this is a really great place to start with your career and the rewards are amazing, to be dedicated, focus and to make sure that he/she really want to do it. Advices for getting ready for college is definitely go to college and definitely focus and do well. For preparing for your career my advice is to do something that you enjoy doing and its ok to change your mind because we have to live a little before knowing what we want.

Post 1 - week 1 -First Impressions-

Brooklyn Children's museum is a really cool museum which is so full of life, it’s a great place for kids to play, have fun and explore really cool things that look real but they are not real. My supervisor name is Delia Meza she is a childhood educator and works in an office but she shares her office with someone else. Delia Meza is a wonderful woman, really nice, helpful, kind and the days that I have been intern in the museum I have always see her in a good mood. The way she talks to the children’s is really nice. The environment in the museum is really a live, it’s a really colorful museum, the people are always nice, the people that works there they all nice and friendly. The children’s running everywhere playing, laughing, smiling.The neighborhood looks really nice& calm. In my internship I see Genita,she is working in the same place at me ,I also see other interns student who are really nice and have been really helpful with us. The task that I have complete at my internship is being able to be patience with the kids and also supporting the noise and also being able to learn how to read a book to the children’s in a way they can be entertain by the story of the book. My exact schedule so far is from Tuesday to Thursday 3 hours a day from 2 to 5 pm and on Fridays from 2 to 5:30 pm. I arrived home about 6:pm.Something else I would like to share about my internship so far is that we met another interns and one of them is from Honduras also. The first day of my internship I have to hold an snake, cockroach and a turtle and never in my life I had hold an snake because I’m really scared of snakes but the first day I did hold a snake for 1 minute I think so but we will get a training day to learn how to hold different kinds of animals without fear and them we will be able to do shows with them to the children’s. The last thing I want to share about my internship is that if my family wants to take a little baby to the museum they can go without paying.