Drainage system
Today concludes the last day and week of interning at Borges architects and associates office. It has been an amazing four weeks in Miami filled with great food, people and learning. I am sad it is over but happy I was fortunate enough to have come here in the first place. Although it is finished I have a lot of interesting things to look forward to for the rest of this summer. When I arrive back in Colorado I will go straight into Bob Johnson Hockey camp with my cousin, which has become a family tradition with friends. In a way I am ready to get back, yet another week with the Hans family would have been great.
My last week in Miami has been interesting and fun. The Hans grandmother had a birthday which was eventful. I have been to a Mexican market, have eaten $5 burgers, and had my first Sushi burrito along with wonderful Cuban food.
Presented drainage system from AIA Sea Level Rise task force meeting
$5 burger!
This week was a great wrap-up to my internship in Miami. To end my time at Borges office I finished my power point and then presented it to Reinaldo to show what I have learned through my time in his office and under his wing. My presentation went well and he enjoyed it and thought all the information was good and that nothing important was missing, only minor errors. Along with my usual work that week I went to a sea level rise task force meeting at the AIA (American Institute of Architects) building where a man named Walter Mayer presented his ideas on reducing sea level rise impact in urban areas. He has a major in streetscape engineering and architecture, so all the ideas he presented involved redesigning street and city drainage systems. One important idea proposed through the presentation of different projects was to put all drainage pipelines above ground while serving both people and vegetation. It was a very inspiring and interesting meeting to sit in on and see how other architects and engineers are preparing for sea level rise.
Grandma Hans’ birthday
All of these great meetings I was able to sit in on would not have been possible without so many top class people. Without the Pinhead Institute I would have never been in Miami in the first place. Without my boss Reinaldo I would not have been able to learn as much as I did and meet the people I met. But I give the most credit to the Hans family. Yes Pinhead is the program that brought me to Miami, but without the Hans family I would have not had a place to stay. They made me feel as if I was a member of their family and without them my time in Miami would not have been the same. I have created lifelong friendships with them and hope to see them again in the future, especially because they come to Mountainfilm every year.
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