To start off this post, here's a picture of my friend Andrea and I when we met up last weekend. She's now safely but sadly back in Dominica for another year or so with the Peace Corps. It's actually a somewhat decent headshot of me considering all of the walking I did that day (and this was at like 8pm- post walking!)..Rob and Andrea always kid me about my walking and whining when I am with them but what can I say...I'm not used to walking because in Michigan if I'm going from the mall across the street to Target- you're darn right I'm going to get in my car and drive across the street- but NOT in D.C....even if I had a car here.
Moving on..........
There are always so many things you can learn in a day. Like this afternoon as I left work this guy gets on the elevator and says to the other 4 or 5 of us on it “Ok now, who knows where an almond comes from?” And we all just stand there completely stunned at this totally RANDOM question from this guy who we don’t even know. Then to add to it, he whips the Almond plant out of his suit jacket pocket and is like “Trees!! Did you guys know that?” We simply amused him by stating you learn something new all the time, even 5:30pm on a Friday night when we just want to get off that elevator and get out of the place. Turns out he had a friend from work who apparently just returned from
So the staffing as I’ve said is minimal to begin with at NCCNHR and NLTORC but today is was pretty scarce. I think half of the staff of 10 were at conferences or had the day off for whatever reason. It was so dead quiet there with everyone gone.
My first week is over- I survived it! The mornings appear to be the time everyone gets down to work hard-core at work. It’s funny because all of us interns get there at like 830am or 9am at the latest, but the majority of the staff just meanders into the office at 9:30am or 10am…whenever they get there. And then in the afternoon (like today) all of the sudden we realize that it’s just a couple of us left, mostly the three interns who are still hard at work and everyone else is on their merry way. Lunchtime is a nice staff discussion time and when everyone really starts talking for the day, and then the afternoons seem to be full of discussion- both on work topics and off the topic. The place really seems to get noisy in the afternoon.
This internship is defiantly different for me because for once in my life my job doesn’t consist of answering the phone every time I hear it ring unless it is my own phone ringing- there’s someone else who’s job is to answer the phone for a change. J No offense to any fellow phone answerer friends, it is just different not having to answer phones throughout the day and taking care of them!
Well, this girl has about had it on the computer for one day! I’m out like a bandit at a jewelry store for now. I think the roommates and I are going to go and grab some dinner and check out some hangouts in the
Stephanie
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