First Week (6/8-6/9)
The SHECP internship (Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty) is a 9 week internship sponsored by Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. I was very privileged to be given a chance to participate in this very insightful and mentally rigorous program. I was going to be placed with the West Virginia Covenant House in Charleston, West Virginia. The internship runs from 6/2-7/27, with in-person placement beginning on 6/6. I personally was unable to begin my internship until 6/9 after I had finished a retreat for the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. I felt that my time at WVSOM, while still taking away from my contributions to the Covenant House, acclimated me to the culture of West Virginia and its differences from my hometown in Central Pennsylvania. It also showed me the unique, celebratory aspects of West Virginia and how proud people are to be West Virginians. I found that there are a lot of similarities, but also key differences to the way that thes...