A day as an intern

I mentioned in my last weekend post that I had started internship and would be writing about it soon. So here it is

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My alarm went off at 5:00 am. I turned it off and woke up later at 5:17 am. I quickly got ready and by 6:02, I was walking out of the house.

my face still looking swollen due to insufficient sleep

Work starts at 8 am but I have to leave extra early if I want to get a car and get there on time.
My first headache of the day is making it to the roadside. On some lazy days, it takes me up to 30 minutes but when I’m going to work, I put all laziness aside.
I made it to the roadside 15 minutes later. Crossed over to the other side and waited for a car.

On some days, I could wait for 30 minutes and won’t get any. So the next option will be to walk to another station which is about 7 minutes away where I’m sure I will get a car.

Today I was quite lucky. In about 5 minutes, I got a car. I got seated and took out my phone to write my previous post. It was going to be a long ride and that would probably be the only convenient time to do it. A guy sat next to me and was constantly looking in my phone. It was so irritating. At a point, I had to stop and just and stir into the traffic.
The journey didn’t seem so long probably because I was busy writing.
I got to my stop and it was 7:38 am. I still had to walk about 5 minutes to get to the office.

forgot to mention I work at DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority)

I got into my department and no one was in yet.

So I just put on my coat which is a requirement for all staff except those in higher positions. I didn’t want to start any work yet so I just scrolled through my phone and replied a couple of messages.

I started this internship a week ago and I had been tasked to enter some data into an excel sheet. I set a target to make 200 entries before it was time for lunch.

About two hours later, they brought in National service personnel (NSS). These are fresh university graduates that have to serve the nation by working in these institutions for a while with a little allowance.
They brought 3 of them to the cubicle I was in because that’s where data enters is done. Our supervisor asked me to take them through the basics since I was the one with experience.

It was quite an exciting and humbling experience. Who would have thought I would be taking my seniors through what to do at a workplace.
So I quickly took them through and all that was left was to supervise and attend to them when necessary.
And that’s what I did for the rest of the day since they took over my work.
At lunchtime, I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to eat so I ended up with a drink and some doughnuts.

I was attending to one of the personnel when I got a video call. I was wondering why this particular person would call me when this person knows I might be busy. I answered anyway and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
So I rushed out to confirm and I wasn’t wrong.
My baby was right there looking all fly.😌

@zzzinnn literally the sweetest!

This is literally one of the best surprises I’ve received!
We spoke for a while and it was 4:00 pm, time to go home. So I went in and grabbed my purse and we walked down to the junction where I would get a car home.
On my way home, my head was in the clouds and I was smiling subconsciously. A guy I was sitting with was looking at me till I realized why. So I had to straighten up my face and try to think of something else.
I met an old friend from high school in the car who thought I was going to see my cousin at school.
When I got to my stop, it was 5:23 pm.

I walked behind these school kids and they were giving ‘junior high school love vibes’ 😂.
Reminded me of how fast time flies. Like I was literally their age just yesterday.

I got home at 5:41 and no one was there. I went straight to take a shower and do some pending work on my pc.
My cousin came in a few minutes later and guess what, she had gone to get new piercings. This is the same person that people are assuming she’s in school and studying because their exams starts in a week. I totally forgot to take pictures of the piercings but it was funny cause she was in pain. Beauty is pain right? Reminded me I have a pending piercing to do but I wasn’t ready to pay that amount for it so probably won’t be doing it anytime soon.

We waited a while till my sister came back with her friend who I wrote about here and her friend’s mom with some food😁.

We ate and I watched an episode of All American season 5 and that was a wrap.