Today, I'd like to write about some of my 'online' work with my placement. Alongside going to fascinating events, I've been doing work behind the scenes too. As well as some proofreading and formatting for the Culture Step programme and emails, I helped to set up the facebook group (it's private unfortunately, just for participants!). Actually, I was surprised at how useful a tool this was in bringing people together. I have also been sharing some of my blog posts on this site for public reading. My post about the Estonishing Evenings event was even shared by the online publication Estonian World! This was a personal challenge for me, because I am not used to offering my reflective writing to a public readership. I feel insecure about what people might think about writing that is quite personal, but I want to challenge myself more, and I am already learning a lot from this process. I'm hoping I can learn more by opening myself up to the opinions of others. Thinking about this also gave me an idea for something new I can work with for culture step. I want to create a new blog that is not just my own, but that participants can submit entries to, whether it be written, images, music, film, etc. This is something I'm going to work on over the next week. It is great that Lea is very open to these ideas and allows me to work so independently! I like this style of working in Estonia, I love to be given so much freedom to work on projects! I have a complicated relationship with social media. I often feel anxious about posting my views on Facebook, and recently have used it very little. My mental health is notably improved when I minimise use of social media. However, I've realised that for me, social media is a necessary evil. Estonia is the fifth country that I've lived in (sixth if you could England and Scotland separately), I have friends and family all over the world. Facebook is the easiest way to keep in touch with those people. I can use it to 'drop in' on people who I might be crossing paths with soon. Apparently I should be posting my hours spent at placement. According to my Culture Step passport, which logs our hours spent at events through stickers, I have so far spent 18 hours at events. (Estonishing evenings, towers tour, launch and nature film, architecture museum, Lahemaa National park trip) I have also spent at least 10 hours working on my own time on proof-reading, online content development, writing this blog, etc. At the start of this project, Lea said she thought I would be spending more than my 60 hours, this will probably be the case, with more events this week and the Estonian language class! But I don't mind, even though I'm doing a lot, it's very fun too!
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