Together with Piotr via WhatsApp, we agreed to have a phone call to discuss what my further steps should be towards an effective internship from home. As I already expected many participants withdraw from projects and events the company conducts because of COVID-19.
As for my interest in the event management internship, there are currently no projects in which I could participate as all events and traveling have been temporally cancelled. This has made me very anxious and I actually thought I would face a study delay. Even though the amount of participants has seen a sharp decline there are still people who want to get involved with the company after the situation has cooled down. This al is not exactly how I expected my Spanish internship to be, back in the Netherlands. However, i decided to be resource-full and joined the Humane Resource department. The next steps for me are to take care and contact those who are still interested and will help with preparing; acceptance letters, agreements, recommendations letters, forms for embassies, etc. I could have waited till next year for my dream event internship to take place. However, I am satisfied with my decision and would take same steps if I would find myself in same kind a situation ever again.
I have received all templates via mail which I have to work with and emails of future participants to communicate about their interest.
Today with most of the voluntary form the breakfast club we have had an online brainstorm session on how to raise some money for the BFC during the quarantine, unfortunately, no clear actions are taken since we could not agree on many things.
FGolinski blog on 2020 internship in Barcelona 