{"id":3711,"date":"2013-10-07T10:56:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2013-10-07T10:56:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:56:34","slug":"introduction-meet-lee-bartnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2013\/10\/07\/introduction-meet-lee-bartnik\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction: Meet Lee Bartnik"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My name is Lee Bartnik and I am a super senior studying dietetics at UW-Stevens Point and I\u2019m currently enrolled in the London internship semester program<\/a>. This is my blog, written to my fellow students to entertain and possibly inform.<\/p>\n

Well, it is Sunday evening, which usually means struggling to find a live stream of the Packers, only to have it give out in the last minutes. You just can\u2019t trust an online feed for something as important as sports. Oh well, such is life in London. Nah, I try to spend as little time as possible engaging in American pastimes, but some football on Sunday is one slice of home I like to indulge. Instead I\u2019m working on a paper for Art and Architecture class. I don\u2019t know anything about art or architecture, so this has been quite difficult. London is about as good a place as any to learn though, as we meet in different locations throughout the city for each class. Week 2 was in the Banqueting House, the first classical building erected in Britain. Last week was Trafalgar Square and the National Portrait Gallery. I know this may not mean much to anybody, but trust me, it\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n

\"londonleesun201310\"<\/a>There are a great deal of free museums around, including museums of science, fashion, art, zoology, and pretty much anything else you could imagine a museum being dedicated to (including the Sherlock Holmes museum, which isn\u2019t free and isn\u2019t worth it, from what I\u2019ve heard). It\u2019s really cool just to go in on your own and look around, but having a professor\u2019s perspectives and knowledge really adds a great deal to the experience.<\/p>\n

So, in a nutshell, London is a lot like large American cities except that people dress nicer, the toilets don\u2019t work as well, and, of course, the vehicles drive on the opposite side of the road. This may not seem like a big deal, but trust me, it\u2019s dangerous. One day I was walking to my internship (which I\u2019ll discuss in a bit); I started to cross the road, saw a bus, turned back and WHAM! Just got smoked by a motorcycle! He went down, I went flying, and he was angry. \u201cWHAT ARE YOU DOING?\u201d I helped him pick up his bike, luckily it wasn\u2019t scratched, and he cooled down. I took the opportunity to walk away in a random direction as fast as possible. At that point, I decided to slow down and be more careful.<\/p>\n

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As I mentioned, I\u2019m in the London internship program, which consists of six credits of courses (I\u2019m taking Art and Architecture and Modern Theatre), and 20 internship hours per week. You get placed according to interest, and I ended up at a charity organization called Emerge Poverty Free<\/a> that carries out overseas community development projects in impoverished communities. I was quite nervous about the internship, worried that either I wouldn\u2019t like it or else I wouldn\u2019t be able to fit any real need within the organization. However, it has worked out well thus far. I started with a few smaller tasks like writing articles for the website, and did these well so my opportunities have expanded quite substantially. Sometimes you just have to pretend you know what you\u2019re doing and figure things out. So far I\u2019ve done everything from web design to researching new office locations for the organization (we\u2019re moving soon). And I haven\u2019t felt overwhelmed by any task that has been thrown my way. It\u2019s amazing what \u00be of a dietetics education will do for a person! Honestly, I am very grateful for the education I\u2019ve received at UWSP, particularly in dietetics (there\u2019s my plug, Jasia). No, I\u2019m serious though, it\u2019s great. We don\u2019t just learn specific skills or tasks; we learn how to solve problems. The rest of the UWSP students in the program are incredible as well; I couldn\u2019t ask for a nicer group of people to be traveling with. They all seem like high-capacity individuals, very responsible, etc; products of UWSP. Seriously, they\u2019re not paying me for school promotion \u2026 Until next time.<\/p>\n

-Lee<\/p>\n

Lee Bartnik, a senior\u00a0at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point majoring in dietetics, is blogging about his study abroad experience in London<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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