"You're off to great places. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way." - Dr. Seuss

Today, no one expected Wendy...

Today was my first day at the UN and, much like the Spanish Inquisition, no one expected me. The day was.. eventful and ... it was something. Well. To be completely honest, the reason why it was something was because ... no one planned for me to be here today. I was expected May 17th.

First day at work selfie

I went to where I needed to go this morning, I showed up at 8:30 for my 9:30 meeting. I called a few times - no answer. The doorman called a few times and still - no answer. It was about 9:50 when the doorman/security got frustrated and tried to call every contact I had. Finally, he asked someone to bring me up to the department. When I got there, I found out that the person I needed to report to... wasn't there. He had that day off. DIDN'T MATTER, I WAS STILL STOKED TO WORK AT THE UN! Honestly, I could have probably waited days.

Well, instead I got to wait about an hour and 20 minutes ... and then I was told to wait for someone else who could help me. It took another hour before someone showed up. It was about 11:10 by then... All in all, I took about 3 and a half hours to get to someone to help me. BUT! The person was super nice, super talkative and really kind. She helped me a lot with my paperwork. She also found the people who were in my department and called them to tell them I was there and ask if I could go over.

How badass.

Turns out they thought I was getting there on the 17th. They had nothing prepared for me.

But life must go on, so the UN employee took me over to the card office to get my new card! Man it was so exciting, getting that beautiful baby blue card!! Totally worth the wait. Seriously. it can get me

into most departments, conferences and other places too! Because my department needed some time to prepare something for me, I went out for lunch.

First day at the UN finished!

My friend who is also an intern with the UN came to pick me up from the building and brought me around the UN! He showed me around, where the lunchroom is, where I can get into, all the works! It was so kind of him. After the tour and lunch, I went back to my building and found out my department was ready for me, so I headed back over to the UN with my shiny new badge and met my new office. It was pretty surreal. It's a super high profile office with some highly sensitive information (So I may not post a lot because of the nature of my work).

It was pretty insane first day, lots of getting slammed with information on what's going on, sitting in on meetings, knowing that there are an immense amount of meetings going on and being given an idea of a project that they want me to work on already. Oh and sitting in on a meeting with pretty damn big meeting with an NGO.

So all in all a pretty ... something day. Waiting for 3 hours for a pass and then getting slammed with information and a meeting. Not what I expected at all in the morning and not what I expected in

Yum yum! 

the afternoon. Not what I expected at all.

But you know what? That's exactly what I want, new things to do, new challenges and getting a chance to contribute and do something good! I'm super excited for Monday.

I left the office at around 5pm when one of my co-workers told me to and walked around to grab some pizza for dinner. Very mentally fatigued after today.