My poor poor blog. You have been quite neglected this week because of work. It’s amazing how time consuming transportation, work, sleeping, and eating can be! T’was a crazy week although the craziness is beginning to adhere to a schedule. Each morning around 8 am I head down my street to get on the metro. If it’s still early there are people handing out newspaper and the water is still flowing down the streets from it’s nightly cleaning. It only temporarily clears the street of cigarette butts. The metro isn’t too crowded in the morning. It’s a rare day when there isn’t some sort of muscian on a train. The word musician is pretty loose term; sometimes it’s just a guy with a stereo. When I arrive at my stop I walk a block to my building, 14 Haussman. It’s a lovely building although the front door is currently under construction so we have to go in the back. I pull out my badge, (specially procured at the embassy last week), and ask the guard to let me past the first tournsel. Then up the elevator and through another door which requires another badge swipe. Past the funny British security guard named long John, the metal detector and one more badge swipe and I’m on my floor. The whole trip can take up to 40 minutes! I found out that they get very very unhappy if you forget your badge. (Especially the second time.)
Office description: the office is quite open, there are really only two actual offices for the bosses. Everyone else is divided into desks with one or two computers. The interns sit towards the back at a set of 4 computers grouped together. There are some things I’m not supposed to talk about for security reasons but I promise you aren’t missing anything interesting! The best parts of my day are early in the morning (when no one is there and there is still a serious ammount of coffee in my bloodstream), and lunch when all the interns high tail it to the kitchen to catch up. That’s all for now!
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