Day 8

By the morning of my third day of interning, I still hadn’t received my computer from the IT department. Reading endlessly had gotten pretty boring so fortunately my computer was ready just before lunch. The day before, Tuesday, I helped one of the ladies, whose project I am working on, to edit the website before it went live. I went through and made clear detail about the errors, maybe even excessively since I am so conscious of grammar. When I showed the corrections I made she said it was just what she was looking for. She had looked at it so many times that she wouldn’t be able to recognize the errors. After work on Tuesday I decided to be adventurous and try to take the bus back home rather than the tube. Because Victoria Station is so huge, it is difficult to figure out which direction the buses are going in. I hopped on my correct bus, but unfortunately I realized too late that it was headed in the wrong direction and I was now in an area where I didn’t want to be wandering around looking for a bus stop that had the bus I needed. So I took it all the way to the end and then all the way back to where I lived. Apart from being on a bus for nearly 2 hours, my journey was a good way for me to figure out where I need to get on the bus after work.
On Wednesday, once I had my computer, I was able to check my work email and respond to events that were going on within my company. My primary boss is planning an event to present her research and I am helping her to complete all the necessary tasks associated with that. I put 2 files on 215 flash drives, which I did not mind since it was significantly better than reading. I also compiled a word document of the biographies of the speakers for the event with their pictures as they were sent to her. It is nice to finally be able to do things and contribute to the team. After work I was able to get the right bus home in the correct direction. It was a lot easier than transferring on the tube.