"Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen." - Conan O'Brien

Got to dress up casual

I literally woke up at 7am today. I am so tired.

I mugged around and just kind of walked around the apartment, tried to write some more blog posts (since I am like a week behind honestly).

At around 2:30, I headed over to work to help out with the report again (yes on a Saturday and no - I wasn't forced to, I wanted to).

But before work, I walked around for a bit and just walked into two street fairs - the Murray Hill Street fair and then again with a Japan street fair. It was quite

Japan fest :D

cool being able to just see these street fairs outside and just having them, BAM, literally right outside my door. I didn't get a chance to eat or try anything since I needed to head to work asap.

When I got to the I sat around and helped out with edits again.

SO emtpy during weekends

It was quite interesting since we were so close to finishing and we were all so tired.

The entire contingent right here

After working so hard, I decided it was time to play hard (well I mean kind of hard).

I headed over to my friend's new place in Williamsburg and it was beautiful. She had a really cool rooftop, where myself and the entire Canadian Mission Intern contingent was there (Yes, all three of them). It was pretty nice going up top and relaxing and having a few drinks, talking to friends and just enjoying in general.

:D 

We headed out afterwards to grab a bite to eat and we grabbed some food from a Polish restaurant where I got to practise my very limited Polish and the guy was just having a ball listening to me say thank you and good bye in Polish and talking about all my favourite Polish foods!

After the delicious dinner, where I ordered this gigantic burger that was just overflowing with food, we headed down towards another bar, sat down and played some interesting drinking games and talked about life in general.

Gigantic plate of food

All in all, it was a great night of hanging out with friends and exploring the city. Got home a bit late, but I feel like that's starting to become a trend....

"Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream." - Marlon Wayans

FRIDAY! Finally - Friday. I woke up really early today again, at around 7 am and then thought it would be a good idea to go right back to sleep - but you know when you close your eyes for what you hope is 10 minutes but then it turns out to be an hour and a half? Yeah, that happened to me. I woke up and I needed to be at work for 9am, which isn't a problem usually since I live so close.

...But this morning I had to go and pick up some stuff for the office. I was a bit late - but not by much! Though that was with no help from Staples. I headed in, found the exact thing I needed within 2 minutes of being ni the store and then waited in line for twenty minutes.

HOW DOES STAPLES HAVE A TWENTY MINUTE LINE ON A FRIDAY MORNING AT 8:50AM?! How. I don't know. I guess they're super popular or not very quick with their stuff.

When I finally did get into work, it was pretty busy, our boss, the USG (Under Secretary General) was coming in today. We had a working lunch, so all the plans I made with my friends to go to the Green Fair at the UNICEF building all went down the drain.

But that was okay because I learned far more from the working lunch than I would have ever learned to a fair. I believe very strongly in learning first hand in learning through experience.

My Co-worker kindly
gave me this!! :D

if I went 

I tried to power through my other work because I really wanted it to be finished as soon as possible, but I was pulled away to help out with something else - the Secretary General's Report.

Yup. I, a lowly intern got to help out with editing and giving my opinion about the Secretary General's report.

Yeah.

YEAH.

MY MIND IS STILL BLOWN AWAY, I DON'T CARE THAT MY NAME  (No one else in my office's name will be on it either, only the SG will get his name on it) ISN'T GOING TO BE ON IT.

I KNOW I HELPED.

I KNOW I DID WELL.

I TRIED.

Mussels and Meatballs!

And man did I learn a lot. Just hearing about all the edits the report had already been through, the formatting, the footnotes, references, etc. It's all insane how much work goes into it. I also got to learn a lot about the language, the "legalese" and the "UN-speak" that is used, and being able to go

through a document first hand and provide support for it was a pretty damn good feeling.

THE MOST DELICIOUS PIZZA

I ended up staying pretty late, late enough that I had to cancel all my plans for the evening and we were probably the last ones to leave the building. But it was totally worth it.

Afterwards a friend hit me up and asked me if I wanted to go to food, so I agreed and dinner ended up turning into a few drinks and going to bed at 3am.

Good day.