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Today I entered already my 3rd week at work...I am still not tired or fed up with working 9-6, but we have a long way to go until end of august:P

What I actually have to do in a regular basis(meaning at least for the next 3 months, then i can change unit if i wish to)is far less intelectually stimulating than i thought and hoped for in the beginning.

I mean first week was very cool because i went to the HRC session and then i wrote a report on the HLS, but since then it has been mostly copy and pasting texts that desk officers send me, sending mails for the website update(eg "under Country X,please remove the visit of the SR on food fromthe forthcoming visits column and add it under the visits undertaken column" -u get it now?) and trying to understand what my supervisors are explaining me in like 5 seconds like i am supposed to know that stuff since i was born...Plus a couple of them have impossible accents when they are speking english, so i dont really understand what they are telling me and i just nod stupidly, then i rush through the few papers with info they have given me to understand what i have to do=more time to do the actual job.

I make quite a few mistakes-as my mother very well knows and never stops to remind me i make stupid mistakes because i work too fast and i am careless, well, mom, you are right!(i am only admitting that to this blog, i will never utter those words again:P) and they are still patiently correcting me and pointing out to what i should be paying more attention to, but i think my testing period is almost over and they wont be sooo patient during the following months of the internship....

But once i get used to their way of doing the WBN or the website update, i think my job will be quite boring-now i only have the adrenaline rush because i am not sure if i m doing everything correctly and i am waiting for someone to tell me i am stupid or slow or both..hmmm....

I have met pretty much all the interns, everyone seems nice for now but i get the feeling they are not doing much together after work.I mean they have been working together for about 2 months now and they dont know basic stuff about each other.Shit, i hope it wont be the same with me, i desoerately need some social life for the next 6 months!Not to mention some sexual activity...I saw a cute german intern today,but he's leaving in 2 weeks, bad luck:(

Good news:i finished almost decorating my room!I went to casa and to IKEA this weekend and bought some pretty but cheap stuff to add , now i am just waiting for Irene to help me hung my new green curtain!!!I think i have done a pretty good job with the colors in the room, green, pink and beige much very well with the wooden floor and the big window and the rest of the furniture:)

Those are a few of the items that have squeezed their way from IKEA into my room:

Extra storage box for my shocks:)  Extra polka dot pillow(i love polka dot this year!) for my bed !

1.A nice rug in soft colors and 2.the perfect cover for my bed!

      

Greatest of all:my sort of closet for clothes, it is actually easier to chose what to wear inthe morning if u have it hanging out all day in front of you-i know notice sweaters and dresses that i didnt even remember they existed:)

                

A really cheap mirror in 4 pieces for everyone ot arrange them as they wish:i placed each piece under the other just behind my door and that way i have a body mirror to check my outfit in the morning!

What do u think?Only thing missing now from my room s a pretty flower pot..wondering which kind of flower...something that can actually survive in a room...tulips?cyclamines?nut i am sure for the color:pink, it will match perfectly the lime curtain!

Yesterday was greek kitchen night here at 29, rue de la servette.I made stuffed tomatoes and peppers with soem feta cheese to accompany it with:)Well it wasn't like my grandmother's but stilll...lucky me, i had made extra stuffed vegetables and we didnt eat them all so i took what was left today at work...i mean, the food at the restaurant is really great and cheap for geneva standards, but if i eat there every day i will be very soon fat and poor:P

I am just sticking to buying a coffee per day or a pain au chocolat sometimes, but i have to cut backon that also,So i have brought my own instant coffee, chocolate cookies, tea and my heidelberg mug-the interns have a small corner with a boiler and differnet kinds of coffee and tea to serve themselves.We are all unpaid so no one expects that we ll be willing or able to always buy food or coffee from the cafeteria/restaurant:hence the microwave oven to warm food in tupperware and the boiler:)

But the chance to spend some money AFTER work by having drinks/coffee/whatever with your new colleagues and socialize is always a great oppurtunity, so last Friday we went for a drink after leaving the office at cafe des arts!!!It's one of the coffee shops/bars i had set my mind on, it's on rue de paquis, really close to work, great decoration and as i learnt a quirky clientelle;)

cultural shock:they dont have nescafe in geneva!They have instant coffee yes, but not the brand nescafe..so weird...i will be running out of nescafe before friday and i am really frustrated, i hate it when i cant find the same exactly brand, i get confused.Maybe i ll ask from Irene to bring me a couple of big packs of nescafe from Brlgium, hope they have some nescafe overthere,grrrrrr!!!

This weekend i also managed to take my eyes off the laptop screen and i started readinh a book:it was about time, i have about 7 litterature books waiting to be read, not to mention all the documents for my internship report, economists, le monde diplomatique and so on...i get tired just by thinking of it....What i started reading isnt the greatest novel of all time, its more of a crime novel from patricia kornwell.i had discovered her 3 years ago in rouen, but ever since i had forgot the existence of Key Scarpetta and Pete Marino...until i went to emmaus in Strasbourg and i found one of her books for 50 euro cents...so i bought it! now that i ve started reading it i just cant put it down. i even took it today to work in case it was another slow day.but it wasnt' so i didnt get to read more than a couple of pages.When i got home, i was thinking of spending the night onmy bed, reading the rest of it...but when i reached for it in my pink longchamp..i realised i forgot it in the desk's drawer at the office,merde:(

So that's how i ended up blogging ce soir...

ps oh and excell sucks-today for the first day i had to work with it and i just cant get it, it is so frustrating...and i think i will be doing nothing but putting numbers in excel working sheets for the next couple of days...