Jan 16, 2012

Today was my FIRST day of work at AECOM! Woo, it's like the first day of class and I was nervous/excited. It was the first time that I woke up early...like at 6:45am to get ready for my "real" job! Dev and I carpool and we get to work around 7:30, there was hardly any traffic because today is MLK, I guess we don't get this holiday off. =/ I walk up to the same place that Dev works, but then get re-routed to the other building to meet my team leader, Brian. Dev walks me over and then the day begins!

It's just like the first day of class, I meet some of my co-workers in the office, there are about 7 people, all are engineers. My desk is the first desk in the office, basically where you would see a secretary. When I get in Jim is setting up my computer and Brian takes me around the office and introduces me to everyone. They are all really nice and most are from the mainland, so I guess they put all the mainlanders in one office on the "other side." haha. Pretty much right away they give me small tasks to do, like make a invitation for a "office blessing" that we are having on Wednesday. I even jump right into a meeting, they are having a 2-day event next week, so they have a lot of work to do before then. I guess they really need me then! I think it's going to be a challenging job, but i'm ready to finally feel like I'm using my brain. hehe.

Lunchtime roles around and Devin meets me downstairs :) We get to eat lunch together now! We grab some korean food and then head up to his break room, because ours is really small and there's room for about 2 people in there. haha. I meet a bunch of his co-workers...and I guess mine too. It's probably going to take me awhile to figure out everyones name and face, but hopefully I'll get the hang of it.

I then head over to the "other side" and help with a ppt presentation they are putting together. I guess they wanted some help making it look "nicer" then what they were used it. We'll see if they like what I come with. It takes sometime to get used to going back to a PC, I've been used to using a MAC for the past couple years! Most of the engineers are in meetings for the rest of the day and I finish up the ppt until the end of the day. I print out where I get and then head downstairs and finish my first day of work! It seems to go by pretty quick considering I was doing work most of the day. And then I head downstairs to go home!

Dev's family is taking me out to dinner tonight because I finished my first day of work. :) I was excited, but also made me a little sad because it made me miss my family back at home. :( We go back to the house real quick to change and then head out to CPK. The wait was REALLY long, we had to wait about an 1.25hr so Dev and I go to Ross! haha. We finally get seated, it's Grandma K, Bryce, Uncle David, Auntie Jojo, Dev and I and dinner wasn't too bad. Well, we were starving by the time we got to eat, but I was happy after; happy and tired.

We then came back home and went to the driving range, I guess we wanted to be exhausted by the time we went to bed and I was. Haha. It's time to get BACK to the grind~!