Monday morning our boss was in Spain, but we were supposed to be at the office in order to wait for a delegation from Spain who was holding a conference on Tuesday at the UN, so we went in to the office, with no assignments and did homework, waiting for Spain to show up which, they of course never did. The one work related task I was able to do was accompany our new coworker from India to the United Nations to sign up for her "ALL ACCESS PASS!" aka UN badge. Fortunately, I was able to finish quite a bit of homework. That night I polished off my 25 page research paper for Professor Kott.
Tuesday we were supposed to attend and take notes on the conference that Spain had come to hold. Our boss though that the badges we had acquired to use during the UPR would extend through this conference, they did not. Alison had forgotten her UN library badge so we had to make a whole to do about getting inside which of course alerted security to our presence. After my backpack went through with my water bottle (which I've taken into the UN many a time), I was told to drink out of it, which I did, it is a camelback so it has a straw which I was drinking out of and the security guard said, no drink drink, and I continued, until she made me take the top off and was like I told you to drink and then she saw the straw and everything became clear. Then we tried to register for the conference with the forms our boss had handed us before she ran off to the meeting reminding us what room it was in as her coat flew behind her. So we tried to register but couldn't, and then the security guards made sure we didn't get into the conference so we returned to the office to do homework etc. and our boss didn't return until later, later being 5:30. She asked what happened and when we told her she basically told us we should have just snuck by the UN security guards and that we all learned a lesson. Unfortunately for her sneaking by intergovernmental security forces is NOT in my unpaid internship job description.
Wednesday work involved more homework all day long but more importantly OUR FINAL CLASS WITH KOTT! and TURNING IN MY 25 PAGE PAPER!!! HORRAY!!! To celebrate we thought we would try the free champagne bar again. However apparently when the next day isn't a national holiday it's not nearly as crowded. This means 7 GSG members and maybe 10 other people? What is this the best kept secret in Geneva or something?
Thursday at work we found out our boss was taking Friday off to make her long weekend longer (DAY OFF FRIDAY!) then she asked us when we came into the office not to let strangers poke around as we've had issues with spies... (what?) apparently they're convinced that certain governments have spies coming to check out our stuff-and apparently they have a decent case.
Since I had Friday off (or I just came in really late and left really early) I planned on meeting Melissa and Brenda for lunch. Then we went to Starbucks and Melissa's dad met up with her!! I finished another paper and relaxed the rest of the evening with beer and pizza on the roof. Then we had heard about a club that was supposed to be low key with good music so we thought we'd check it out. Music good, atmosphere good, creepy older men offering to buy you drinks bad, only about 20 people inside bad. Do people in this city EVER go out?? But we stayed for a couple hours anyway dancing.
Saturday morning I went to a cafe with Grace and we did homework for a while. Then we got some Kebab and walked over to the Jet d'Eau and saw it up close and personal. The weather was AMAZING, so we stopped in an ice cream place that looked good-it had a line out the door, and we both got banana and chocolate ice cream which was some of the best ice cream I've ever had: Arlecchino. http://www.larlecchino.ch/4598.html <-- SO GOOD! Then we stopped at McDonalds to do a little bit more work (it was cheaper than Starbucks and on the way to the grocery store), and did our weekly grocery shopping. Since it was so nice a couple of us decided to play Beer Pong outside which was fun, the weather was beautiful. Afterward I was so tired I fell asleep by 10:30... whoops!
Best Discovery: Arlecchino
Most Excited For: Monday Sight Seeing
Ready to: Eat chipotle and see everybody again
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