Around the World

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Oh hey.

Yep. More of the same today. But today everyone was gone in Florida doing some measurements. They left yesterday after work and they got back at 4 today and still had to come back to the office! Craziness. What a quick trip.
It was nice that it was quiet. I worked in cad. It was great.

And my mom and I went and got pedicures after work! So fun! And we went to the diner and had a small dinner. I need to go to sleep. Whew!

Oh I snuk I few pics today while everyone was gone. (Holy cow snuck is not a real word! Weird. Say "snuck" all by itself. It sounds ridiculously funny. Do it!)

Vicente!

His sketches

The storage/work/break/lunch/conference room

My desk

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

More of the same.

Today was basically the same as yesterday. I got up. Went to the office. And worked on CAD.

I guess this really keeps my cad practice up! And I did get to work closely with Vicente today. He even asked my opinion for what he should do on a wall! He didn't like the answer....but it was cool to watch him work anyways.

I went to subway for lunch. Hoorah! And talked to my wonderful mother and my darling husband.

Then my mom picked me up from work and we wandered around the area. We even found the Empire State Building. Its really tall. ;)

My desk and cad. Yippee!

Empire State Building

Monday, May 21, 2012

First day of The Office.

So today was the big day! The first day of the internship.

And of course today it had to be pouring. Pouring rain so that my pants were soaked up to my knees. Cool.

I had my mom walk me to work! We had bonding time. Thanks mom!
And in the most awkward way ever I finally made it up to the office on the 10th floor.
You get to the top and the elevator door opens and then there are 3 different doors that say Vicente Wolf Associates on them. Bad news. SO lets pick door number 2! I ring the bell and wait....Wrong! A janitor walks out of door number 3 and says, "Oh! You want this door." Thank you Mr. Janitor Man! I walk in and hope someone finds me. My dear friend Maureen - who I have been emailing- comes to my rescue.

I get a great tour of the office. It has great big windows, but the office is a lot smaller than I was expecting. I don't really know what I was expecting, but I don't think this was it. On the far side of the office was a conference room where they have client meetings. There is even a separate hallway that leads specifically to the conference room so that clients don't have to walk through the entire office. (previously mentioned- door number two.) Then they have another office and then Maureen's office. She is the woman! Then there is the designer section. There are Vicente Wolf, 4 other designers and then me. My desk is kind of in the middle of it all. And then at the back there is the Material/Resource/Storage/Break/Lunch room. Good room.

Today I started out by cutting out tiny pieces of fabric and stapling them onto the POs for an entire residence. That was a lot of fabric! I only got halfway through and then the big boss pulled me away to do work for him. He gave me a floor plan that wasn't scaled. We scanned it in. Put the Jpeg in CAD and then attempted to scale it from there. Then I had to go over the entire floor and redraw it in CAD because they didn't have the original file. I have to finish that up and then start on the second floor tomorrow.

At least I am staying busy! It nice to have things to do. It was a long day though. I hope tomorrow goes a little better and I start figuring out how to do things. One day down....a lot to go.

Best purchase of the day

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Tiny Island

Today was a great slow day. We got up and went to church here in NY! It was a way nice ward too. With tons of visitors! The bishop even made all the visitors stand up in sacrament meeting....weird. But we had people come up and say hi-so it was swell.

We then came home and got changed and then headed down to Little Italy again! I just love that place :) We went to a little restaurant and had pasta for lunch. NOM NOM NOM! And we even got Eclairs to take home.

On our way home we decided to take the tram that is right by our apartment. The tram is one of those sky trams that runs on the cables. It ran parallel to the Queensboro Bridge over to Roosevelt Island. It is the tiniest Island! It is long, but not wide at all. And the weirdest thing is how the apartment buildings just run down the island. It was very beautiful and calm and so quiet! We got to sit on the waters edge and eat our eclairs. We reluctantly headed home to call it an early night.

Now we need to rest up for our big day tomorrow! Lindsay and I start our internships tomorrow in the big city! I am so incredibly nervous. Wish me luck!

Church

Lunch in Little Italy!

Tram

Queensboro Bridge

Tiny Island! Roosevelt Island

Saturday, May 19, 2012

I'm eating pizza everyday.

Lots of walking today!!

On this wonderful Saturday we started out to China town. Holy moly that place is carzy! It is packed with people and little asian ladies trying to pull you into their shops and wanting you to look at purses and watches. I don't want to! Leave me alone! Ya- not a fan of China town.
But then China town crosses over into Little Italy. Yay! I love love love Little Italy. I could go back there everyday. It reminded me of real Italy. I loved all the cafes and pizza places. Here we went to Lombardi's for lunch. It is one of the oldest pizza places there. And it was delicious! We got a pizza that was half pepperoni and mushrooms, then half meatballs and ricotta cheese. The meatball side was incredible! Aaahhh!! I love Italy!

Then we headed off to the Brooklyn Bridge. It was very awesome to see. All of the cables were fascinating. It was packed with people too. And all of the bikers get so mad at people! They are whistling and ringing their bells at people to get out of their way. It's pretty funny to watch.

Since we were so close to ground zero we decided to head over there. We had to do this big sign up thing and create an account to get these tickets to get into the 9/11 Memorial. We had to wind all the way around the site and go through security. It was pretty intense. Then we got in and it was pretty awesome. There are 2 large pools with 30 ft waterfalls that are placed where the 2 World Trade towers stood. It was very beautiful.

Little Italy

Incredible Meatball Pizza!

Brooklyn Bridge

9/11 Memorial

Friday, May 18, 2012

NEW YORK!

Whew! Finally made it to the big apple. I am here to do my summer internship with Vicente Wolf. Lindsay and I are going to live together in NY! Lindsay and my mom (yes I needed my mother!) and I have gotten settled in our little apartment on 60th street. We were pleasantly surprised by the area. We have a grocery store right across the street along with a Bed Bath&Beyond. Plus a liquor store right outside out door. What more do we need! Our place is tiny, but it is clean and super duper close to Serendipity. Awesome.

We spent yesterday finding our way around. We walked to our offices where we will be doing our summer internships. I know I will get lost. Multiple times. Bad news. We have to take the subway to Times Square and walk from there. I hope I can at least get there on the first day! We also got to go to Serendipitys. Amazing! Tiniest place-awesome design-so crowded. It has the most incredible frozen hot chocolate in the world. If you ever come to NY -your first stop is there.

This summer I am interning for Vicente Wolf. Well that's pretty neat! I am nervous to get started and I hope my brain doesn't let nerves take over and it remembers that I speak english and it understands what people are asking me to do. Bonus!

Today we visited the Guggenheim and it was fantastic! Then we walked all through central park and even got an ice cream and enjoyed the sun :) Then we crossed the entire park to see the LDS Temple. The prettiest building in the middle of all the sky scrapers. For dinner we walked down to Carnegie Deli and got the biggest pastrami sandwich your eyes -and definitely your mouth- will try to overcome. Delicious! Then we walked around Times Square and got to see the sites. So many great stores.

Spending the next 6 weeks here will be CRAZY! Lets see how it goes!