My own desk

9-5 job began for me! And I'm so excited :D well it's more like a 9.30 - 6 job and it takes me an hour to get there, so it takes up my whole day pretty much :( which is sad because then I have time for Paris only in weekends when EVERYONE else is there as well!

To go to work (and come back) first I have to walk about 10 minutes to the metro station (got myself a navigo pass, totally feel like a local now :D), 2 stops there, then to the tramway (about 10 minutes) - once there were people offering bellavita biscuits for breakfast for free :) ooooh that's why I love big cities - free stuff :D - after the tramway another 15-20 minute walk out of Paris. During that I cross two horrible junctions. First that is always full of cars everywhere (like when you look at it you can just see cars basically standing in the middle of the road side-by-side but going in completely different directions), when I go home and the peripherique of Paris. That's the big big road that surrounds Paris. On the first day I saw people hitchhiking by there :S

Now at work it's like a proper office - everyone's really friendly though :) and I have my own desk with one laptop but 2 screens, proper :D and the first thing I did - all last week - was to find translations to certain words from real estate announcements. Yep I did that for 5 days.... the last 2 days went by rather slowly because obviously there are only so many different versions of one word.. But next week the next phase will start :) There are 4 other interns on my floor + our supervisor, who I did my Skype interview with. Upstairs are the men :D the bosses I assume, well at least one of them is the boss and two others are not interns. We lunch together, when it's nice, at the park across the road and sometimes they play a quizz game in two teams... welll I'm not much help at the moment because the questions are wayyyyy tooo hard plus I often don't even understand the question :D if it's raining we'll have lunch upstairs. Everyone can either bring their own lunch, go to a shop near us to buy something or sometimes they'll all order something from somewhere (pizza, sushi etc). So awesome :D You have to realise that I've only seen this done in movies - the office life :D

• Monday is a bank holiday so no work yay :D not that I don't like it but it's always good news to hear that you can stay home ;)
• On Tuesday we'll all perform a silly dance routine... Me and one other girl have to do the Rabbi Jacob dance, look it up :D And it'll be a huge battle among the teams with the losing team having to do their performance on the street... I must practice day and night :D
• Oooooh when I go to work every day I see the Eiffel tower! Bragging! :D I tried taking a pic but it's too far away for a proper photo to be taken 

• One day a rubber chicken was dangling on a rope outside our window :D :D thinking we didn't see it they tried to knock on the window with it, didn't work because we have bars on it, so they took duct tape and tried with that :D

The first week is over and done with 11 more to go! 

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...