{"id":16416,"date":"2020-11-10T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=16416"},"modified":"2020-10-28T11:15:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T15:15:31","slug":"my-vegetarian-resource-group-virtual-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/10\/my-vegetarian-resource-group-virtual-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"My Vegetarian Resource Group Virtual Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Anayeli Camacho, VRG Intern<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of many students that had the privilege of graduating\nHigh School in the Class off 2020, predicting the future seemed impossible. The\nworld we were coming into decided to erupt. Life began to change for almost\neveryone. Underneath all the confusion there was always hope for me with my\ninternship at The Vegetarian Resource Group. As a virtual intern, I had the\nopportunity to participate in writing for an organization that carries shared\nbeliefs of knowledge and growth regarding health while being confined in a\nmayhem filled world. This provided me with an outlet and a form of expression\nduring a difficult time in my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     During my VRG internship, I interviewed a\nwoman I hold close to my heart, a Vegan restaurant owner that established her\nblog then turned it into a restaurant. Stephanie Rich somehow maintained the\nflow and growth of her restaurant during the pandemic. I had the privilege of\ninterviewing and understanding her mindset during all the chaos. One thing she\nsaid to me will always find its way into my mind. \u201cLife is a monkey bar. Never\nlet go of one hand without the other already placed.\u201d This gave more depth than\nshe could have anticipated. I turned it to the bars being knowledge and growth,\nme still being the monkey, but my arms being my desires. As I learned with this\ninternship\u2014Knowledge and expansion are a choice. You must have the desire to\nfind more, feel more, and live in unpredictable ways to keep it moving. If not,\nyou are faced with the possibility of remaining stuck and inevitably falling,\nonly to start again never reaching the end. VRG operates on knowledge and\nresearch. Being a part of this and seeing how broad and deep growth regarding\nhealth can be, changed my entire perspective of life. We had a choice during\nCovid-19, to change our outlook of life and reach higher grounds in the\nunknown, or remain still and fear the dark. This quote was said to help me\nunderstand\u2014life is unpredictable in fascinating ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   As an intern for\none of the most, in my personal opinion, groundbreaking organizations, I had\nthe pleasure of talking to people that conduct life in this mindset. The\nunknown territory, the doubts that society could cast on being a vegan can\nfrighten and push back the possibility of making that life choice. The\nVegetarian Resource Group spreads knowledge and understanding. Conducting\npolls, researching, and consulting with youth and like-minded professionals to\nspread the understanding that\u2014change is good. The search for truth and the\nspread of this truth is what helps you to make these changes. Without fear of\nthe nutritional deficiency that a few still love to scream about, being\npresented with people of this mindset allowed me to broaden my change and\nevolve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Life can turn and\nchange in drastic ways. But even amid all the disarray during the pandemic (and\nother times) lies growth and expansion. It is our choice to find these truths\nand wisdom. With my internship at VRG, I found more than I could have hoped.\nAdmiration lies for this organization that decided to spread understanding and\nexpansion rather than opinions and stillness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For information on VRG internships, see: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/index.php<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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