I don't know how to say farewell to you next week. It is really not enough to say a "thank you", if I did this, I would hate myself. All the goods will come to the end, and I still cannot accept that after next week I cannot see you anymore...Whilst my supervisor - the curator wants me to do things for her, you teach me as a true teacher who cares about me, so I would hate myself more if I were ungrateful for all your help.
When I saw you on the first day of my intern, I thought you were a little unapproachable, but this impression turned out to be a mistake when I assisted you in accessing a "stegosaurus". You has got a mild temper and infinite patience. I was very curious about why the label of every part of "stegosaurus" should be inside the small grooves. You told me that this was for avoiding the exposure of the label after the "stegosaurus" was constructed. You taught me how to correctly label an object with different materials and gave me a very useful handout - a simple guide to labelling museum objects. When working and communicating with you, I felt the time passed too soon...%>_<%
When we packed and unpacked the artworks, you introduced a lot of packing materials I heard from the textbook but didn't see before. You taught me to open the package always from the back and also told me how to stack artworks (face to face, back to back). I was a little shy to talk too much but you wanted me to remember the importance of communication during moving an artwork.
I would never find the charm of registration if I didn't meet you. The four steps of accessioning you taught me: inscription recording, measuring, describing and condition reporting made me love this work from the bottom of my heart. I am a person who loves to be organised and pursue perfection and through accessioning I found my talent for doing this well. Unfortunately, I was afraid of measuring things, and when you first time asked me to measure the width of a painting, I made a funny mistake, but from then on, I got more and more confidence to measure artworks of different sizes and never be fear of measuring anymore, and yes I did very well. But I think the hardest thing for me was to describe an artwork in a limited time. Thank you for leading me to practice this so many times and I made a big progress, but Sorry, as I am not a native speaker, I often experienced difficulty in finding a right word: I didn't know what the English name of the animal in picture was. Do you know? My favourite course is conservation, and I had tried to keep the glossary in mind, but I didn't get chance to use them in practice until you taught me how to check the condition with a torch. From the practice, I indeed found the limitation in my previous knowledge, but more important, I have known what a real "accretion" or an "abrasion" looks like. I made an obvious progress in reporting the condition and would never forget the method for doing it properly.
Working with you is the time I've always looked forward to, and now I still expect to help you next week. Almost every week you came upstairs and called me: "hi, Shanjun, how's going, do you have time to help me do some accessioning?" Sometimes, while searching some files, I couldn't help myself looking through the window and quietly saw you being busy downstairs #^_^# . You were always patient with me, but I've always feel really guilty at showing a very negative attitude one day before the Easter. On that day, you showed me how to handle a very large and unframed work, after that you told me to describe that aboriginal painting, but I said I wasn't in a good mood and didn't want to do it. Until now, I still feel very sorry about my grumpiness; I should't make you disappointed, although I indeed felt awful that day ╯﹏╰. On Monday in the following week, I went to work with a much better mentality, but I was heard of you had been sick for a whole week. I put a picture on your table I drew for you on Sunday and hoped when you saw it you would get better. That Monday I worked very hard with pretty enthusiasm. And I was very happy that you said the picture drown by me was very nice and cute ~@^_^@~
I really love the book you recommended: Museum Registration Methods 5th; I will read it carefully, because Ive become so fascinated with registration now ^ ^
I love speaking with you and watching the way you work, from which I gain so much more than the words can describe. I'll note everything you taught me down, keep them in mind, and bring to my country. I had a wish that one day I could become a good registrar, just like you =^_^=
Thank you and wish God bless you. Sorry that I don't want you to see this post; sometimes it is better to for you to know nothing.
I miss you. Hope one day I can see you again, and talk about registration again or talk about something else...When writing here, I am in tears.
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