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Week 10: A/V Log

    Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.   This week, I needed to pivot away from the transcription I had been working on. After working on it for a few weeks, granted with many breaks in between, it is hard to keep going back to just doing the same task. Instead, I decided that I wanted to work on the A/V Log for the oral history instead.    From my experience before in RICHES, the A/V Log and Transcription were in the same document. The Greenwood cemetery template also has a similar design to RICHES template where there is space for topics and timestamps to go, but their is also another

Week 8/9: Post-Milton and Presentation

     Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.     Here I am two weeks after I said I will not be late against on one of the internship posts. This time, it is not my fault! As I mentioned in my last post, Florida was hit by Hurricane Milton. For some parts of the state, especially the area I grew up in in Tampa Bay, there was pretty devastating damage. However, I am relieved that my family and UCF/Orlando was spared from a lot of long-lasting damages.     My last post I also mentioned that I would be heading to South Carolina, which I did end up doing. The traffic from Orlando to Santee, Sout

Week 7: Presentation and Hurricane Milton

     Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.     This is (hopefully) the last week that I will be behind on one of these updates for the semester. I waited a little bit longer to have something to update on since my previous blogpost was so late into the week. I should be able to more steadily provide meaningful updates from here on out.     One of the major hurdles, however, is the impending hurricane that is supposed to hit Central Florida. As a UCF student, we have already been advised that school will be closed from Tuesday (10/8) to Thursday (10/10). Having been through the destruction

Week 6: Sickness

     Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.     This is a long overdue update for my work in Greenwood. I have, again, had some unfortunate setbacks that have gotten in the way of me to finishing the transcript. I have been sick since Monday night on 9/23. I started with a fever and a migraine headache that turned into a bad ear infection where I lost almost all hearing in my right ear. This mixed with hurricane prep and the actual hurricane hitting has led to multiple set backs.      To vent a little bit about my health problems in lieu of an actual update, I am still having complications