During my internship at Solaris, I mostly did food prepping and bussing. I didn’t really need any previous skills, I just needed to be able to listen and follow directions on what I was being told. Each day was different, on the first day I learned how to bus tables which involved putting a bus tub in the designated area and gather the finished plates from customers in a respectful manner and then bring them back to dishwashers. Then clean dirty tables with a little bleach, soap, and water solution and then drying it down. Lastly, at the end of the day I mopped the floors. On the other two days I worked more with food. On the second day, I learned how to cut and prepare potatoes by using this machine that had a grid of blades then fill a bucket with a lot of water to soak up the fries over night. Next I learned how to cut lettuce which I would cut around the root so I could just isolate the leaves from the root and then separately, pick out each leave and put them in a bucket. After I would wash each leaf thoroughly and gently and spin them in this salad spinner machine to dry the lettuce. The Same process was similar for kale, I would strip the leaves from the stem into small pieces and wash them with the same process for lettuce. On my last day I dealt with meat and vegetables. I portion uncooked beef into six ounce balls and would shape them into about an inch long patties. I also learned how to slice and dice chicken and then portion them. For slicing chicken I would just cut the chicken pieces down the middle into strips making sure to use the bottom of the blade to cut instead of the tip since its more sharper. For dicing chicken I would slice them into strips but also cut the chicken horizontally to make small squares. Finishing off with portionioning them by 5.5 ounces into bags for later use by cooks. Afterwards, I cut parsley by cutting the stem off and chopping the leaves into very small pieces, almost like dust. Generally, my experience with working in prep is that it's not that hard, but it takes work and isn't unbearable. Two experiences I had problems with was when I was cutting parsley, I had to  strike it hundreds of times just to get the parsley extremely small and it would tire my wrist. It would hurt with every strike but I pushed myself to get the job done. My other experience is when I was preparing the burger patties, I struggled to shape them well into even round patties. They often were too oval or had large cracks in the surface from not shaping them correctly but I corrected this by reshaping the patties. Generally My expectations for the internship job were bigger than I expected, I thought I would be doing some complicated food prepping and thought I wouldn’t be able to do it since I had never dealt with food before but my manager taught me really well. In conclusion, I enjoyed my experience, I had never experienced anything like it before and I would be willing to try it again and possibly work there in.