I entered this position with three main objectives - to gain more experience in health education, working with youth in health, and exposure to the work of practicing health professionals. I met my objective of learning more about health education by shadowing health educators. Through shadowing multiple educators I got to see a diverse range of teaching styles, communication, and professional skills. This allowed me to envision how I might want to incorporate certain approaches into my own educator style and think about what I see as the most effective ways to teach the curriculum. Additionally, seeing different types of curricula for sex education in action expanded my breadth of knowledge in styles of health education. I was able to gain more experience working with youth in health simply by being in the Health Start clinics at Como High School. Every day in the clinic I was able to meet new students and build upon my relationships with regular student visitors. One of my specific tasks as a Health Advocate intern is to work closely with the youth advisory board (composed of selected youth from the Saint Paul High Schools). Working with the youth advisory board gave me the unique opportunity to work with students both as a mentor and peer on health education-based tasks and towards health goals, they want to see in their high schools. Through both shadowing and being in the clinics I was able to gain the exposure to health professionals at work I was hoping for. The MCC health start clinics had professionals ranging from health educators, medical assistants, therapists, nutritionists, providers, and dietitians to name a few. As a Community and Global Health concentrator, I aspire to work in healthcare in the future but was not exactly sure as to what my exact position may be. So, to be able to observe a diverse range of health professionals and their day-to-day work has been extremely valuable in guiding my interests in healthcare.