Internship

UNEP RRC. AP. office is quite far from my house, so I had to wake up very early, and tried to get the bus before 6.30am. I have a problem about seating as the office is now renovating, and everything is not complete yet. Consequently, I maybe have to move my seat everyday. My supervisor also asked me to bring my own laptop, so I can work easily as there are fewer personal computers at the office. When I first arrived, my supervisor was not here yet. She was not feeling well, but she would come as soon as she gets better. By the way, people here are very kind and friendly.

Unfortunately, my supervisor; Catherine cannot come today, so Aida; a Senior Programme Officer gave me a task to do. She asked me to look through the National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS) as there will be a meeting in the next few months. I have to make a brief of 17 countries into 2 pages for the journalists. I was given the template that what should I write on the brief, and then I started working on the first country which is Thailand. I first thought that I definitely cannot do that because I have to look in the Annual Progress Report and also look in the website.

In the late afternoon, Aida asked me to help her translate the conversation with the labor as he cannot understand English. She wrote me some point that she wants to ask the labor to do. There are some problems that happened while I was doing my job. I couldn't understand the whole order that Aida asked me to do, so I tried to tell her what is my understanding, and it is correct or not. I also don’t know some words from the documents she gave me, so I do search the meaning on internet. I left the office around 17.15hr, and had some coffee at my friend's coffee shop (we studied high school together), and then I took the bus home.