All my serious work! :)

As promised, this post will be mainly pictures. In all of my blogs, I know it sounded very serious. It seemed like Millie and I never had any fun and only worked day and night. That's true to some degree... We did get a lot of work done and worked A LOT, but we also messed around quite a bit! :)

This was during our second weekend there when we went site seeing! After we toured the palace, Mr. Messafint thought we should stop for coffee! Millie got a great shot of me with the coffee!

During one of the nights we made our dinners, a cat walked up to Millie's door, but then left, so I tried my cat-calling skills to get it back. It didn't work...

We take working in the lab very seriously. Especially when I'm mixing up a chemical that burns your skin.

When we were at Andreas' house for the barbecue, Millie kept taking pictures, so I decided to pose with my best model faces. I thought they were all pretty good:)

During our lunch of tibbs in Debre Zeit, I one day, I didn't think she actually got my face in the picture... I was wrong...

Let's just say I was really amazed by how small the seeds were and had no idea how I was going to plant them without losing them all out of my hand at once...

And here's another shot of us working very seriously and safely with toxic chemicals! (There's always time for selfies right?)

I was so excited to try the burgers Andreas had brought us! (As I'm sure you can see by my facial expression)

Does this tree look big? I think it looks big...

We were so excited to finally be in Soddo!

We were just about to leave the house in Soddo and Millie was taking pictures of the room, so I tried my best to get out of the way. In all honesty, I had no idea she took a picture of me! I thought I blended into the wall pretty well though!

I was just so excited to have bananas! And we were really close to each other in the back of the truck...

I absolutely had to do this pose. Edwin did this in front of the elevator in the hotel that we went to the top of to see the view of Addis. I couldn't resist when I finally got the opportunity. I had to poke a little fun...

This is one of Millie's favorites because it looks like I have a mustache?

Just casually posing while Teklu and the seed producer walk right by me coming out of the field...

Millie cracked up when she actually looked at this picture later because of the little boy in the background just staring at us like we were crazy...

I felt the need to do this after discovering seed pods... Victory!!!

While waiting to teach Tekla how I hand pollinated the flowers, Millie and I had a long time to just wander around the Zwai field, and I found my walking stick!

Millie told me she would take some of my senior pictures for me, so I gave her one of my best poses!

This was one of those times again I had no idea she was taking pictures...

Let's just say I got my inspiration from Mike...

Uhh... I was trying to take a picture of the mountains in the background and as Millie walked by me this happened instead... :)

This tiny tree in Soddo was just too cute and short not to take a picture with! I feel I might have been slightly more excited about it than Millie...

We were waiting for coffee one day, and somehow Teklu got stuck with the shortest seat!

This was when we were getting our pictures taken with Tigist to send to Lisa under the "Working with Colleagues" section, but right in the middle of it, Tigist got a few phone calls and had some things we needed to do. For the bottom one, I didn't know Tigist was right there...

As I keep saying, this internship has truly been amazing, and I know I will be talking about it for the rest of my life. I enjoyed every minute of it, and as you can see, Millie and I made sure to enjoy ourselves every now and then:) That's just a handful of our "interesting" pictures. If you want to see more, just talk to me, comment on this, or send me and email or anything!

I have made so many memories here, and I never will forget them. I couldn't have asked for a better internship site. This has been truly amazing for me, and I can't believe it's over... My last day is tomorrow, and then my plane leaves at 10:40 pm. It will definitely be tough to say good-bye to everyone I've worked with and met during my time here. I will truly miss them all so much. They have helped me out, driven me places, made me feel welcome, supported everything I did here, asked about myself, made sure my 4th of July was something I will remember, and so much more. I will never be able to thank them enough.

Since today was my day off, Millie and I made sure to do all of the things we wanted to do that we will miss here! We made sure to have tibbs in case we don't have time to get them after work tomorrow, ate samosas with Tigist and her daughter, tried to get juice and Bilo's, but they didn't have any, and so much more! I also went on an hour or so walk around the campus just to take my last few looks of it because I know I won't have time to do it tomorrow!

Tomorrow Millie and I have to bind our reports. We got them printed out today, so we just have to put the binding and covers on them and then they're done! Then we have to go to the bank and get our paychecks. Lastly, (and what I really don't want to do because it's going to be sad) we have to say good-bye to everyone. We have our Monday Morning Meeting tomorrow since we didn't have work today because of the holiday, so I'm hoping I'll be able to get a group picture with everyone! I just can't believe it's been 8 weeks and it's time for me to head home. Wish me luck on my travels back! Thanks for all the support during my entire time here!

My overall experience

Overall, this whole internship has changed my life. I am at a lack of words to describe how much of an impact my time at ILRI has had on my life. It has taught me to be an independent person, as well as hardworking. Every single task I performed was extremely tedious and required patience. Not one job was completed in the period of just one day. Each and every task contained multiple steps, and each step took a long time to prepare and carry out. Dr. Jean was talking to me one day about the importance of science and how much work it requires and I’ll never forget what she said:

“Science is a lot of intricate work. You have to be very meticulous when doing anything. If you don’t have the patience or dedication to carry out all the tasks required, then don’t come into the science field. There’s a lot to it and it’s the basis for everything; if you don’t put forth all of the effort, your end product won’t be accurate, and that data isn’t reliable. Don’t make that mistake. Work hard, complete all the steps thoroughly, and do everything yourself; don’t tell others to do it for you. You’ll get the best results if you do things yourself with some help.”

There are so many things I learned here; I learned not just science, but about myself and the culture and nature of another country and its people. Having the two different Canavalia sp. grow in Zwai and Soddo, I was able to travel to both field sites in order to visit them and observe the growing environments of both plants. The field sites are very different from each other when it comes to irrigation, soil types, how and where plants are planted, and so much more. On another occasion of traveling, I interviewed nine seed producers that are growing forages through the FeedSeed program. On the questionnaire I created, my questions ranged from their highest education level to their seed yield to how they got into seed production. Hearing each of their stories was truly inspiring. All of their stories were so different, and yet, I could find a connection to all of them. For most of the seed producers, seed production was their way of making it through. They had no choice. It was all they could do, but on average, they only grew crops on less than 8 acres of land. This was how they were trying to make their way through life.  I couldn't believe this. These interviews with the seeds producers really helped to open my eyes to the way of life here, and for that, I could never thank them enough for sharing their stories with me.

I was so amazed by how welcoming and friendly everyone is on the ILRI campus and everywhere else I went. During my first week here, I was running as usual when a woman passes by me (also running) and asked me if I wanted to run with her. I couldn't turn her down because that would be rude and she seemed to really want a running partner. Even though I had already run 3 laps on my own and was about to be finished, I agreed to run with her. I ended up running/power-walking another 5 or so laps! I was so dead by the end, but I enjoyed every minute of it. Why? Because I was meeting people and the two of us talked about so many things. She was as interested in me as I was about her and the culture here. She let me ask her any question I wanted about her and her personal life. I couldn't believe how open she was to me. A stranger. (Correction: a forengi.) 

On another occasion, my first Saturday I went to the Zebu to hang out for a bit while the women could clean my room and a man, named Befandu, walked up to me and asked if he could sit down. He's very well known here. He comes to the Zebu almost every day, Dr. Jean knows him, and he works at the World Bank. We started talking for a little while, then asks me if I would like a macchiato. Again, I don't want to be rude by turning it down (and I absolutely love them), so I said yes. We talked in there for a couple of hours, and again. He was totally open to me as well. He let me ask him any question about himself as well.

It truly amazes me. During our field visits a few weeks ago, we traveled through and to many towns and cities. In most of those areas, the people were so excited to see white people. They loved Millie and me because we were teenage white girls, and they also loved Lei because they all could tell she was Chinese. As soon as they saw us, they would all get the biggest grins on their faces, wave as big as they could, and of course shout "forengi!!!" They were all amazed by us.

Funny/cute story: Tigist took Millie and I shopping again yesterday because Millie had a few more things on her list of what she wanted to get. On our way to one of the places, I look out my window and see this early teen (not really sure of the age, but younger than me by 5 or so years I'm assuming) skipping/dancing down the sidewalk singing a song to himself. I see this and immediately start laughing and grinning so big. He catches a glimpse of me doing this, and starts skipping/dancing towards the car! He stops right by my window. Smiles the hugest smile I've ever seen. His whole face was lit up! And he blows me a kiss! Then he skipped/danced off and kept looking back at me to see my reaction! It was the funniest, yet sweetest thing I've ever experienced! :)

I never thought I would enjoy lab work, but after this internship I learned that it really is interesting. All my life I would rather be outside than inside. That still is the case, but in a slightly different way. I knew that in order to be in the fields, there had to be some work done in the lab as well. During this internship, I was able to do both. It was great because before this, I just knew the field work. Now I know both sides. There's a lot of work done in the lab before any seed or plant gets sent to the field! I never knew so many tests had to be done before a certain species was able to be planted in the fields! I was able to see every step done, from germinating seeds all the way to seeing plants grow in the field. 

In the beginning of the internship, I helped plant germinated seeds that would later be planted in the fields. This is one of the first steps.

The planted germinated seedlings

A week before that I helped measure out the plots that various forages would be planted in. The measurements had to all be correct so that the spacing for the plants were all the same and so the plants were the correct distance from each other to prevent cross-pollinating or contamination. 

Putting in the posts to mark each plot

Measuring out the distances for the
plots
(sorry it's sideways)

I was able to watch some planting being done using a tractor on the big plot on the bottom field in Addis. I also got to assist Solomon with planting in the back plots behind the Genebank.

Now I get to see the plants start growing and they look great! I was able to both assist and watch with just about every step!

Bottom field in Addis

Back plots behind Genebank

Also, being able to produce seeds from my hand pollination on the Canavalia sp. that's located in Zwai was amazing. I've never felt so good in my entire life. I've never said this before, but I really am proud of myself. Honestly, when Dr. Jean first told us about our projects, I never thought I would be able to get any of them to produce seeds or flowers. That was only in my dreams; I never even imagined that I would be able to do it. I did all of the tests and observations I was supposed to do in order to figure out the problem, but I never fathomed I would actually solve it! Never did I imagine myself accomplishing so much. Everyone who's talked to me about it has told me how huge of an accomplishment this is. It's been growing in Zwai for 10 years now, and never has it seeded. On top of that, Dr. Jean has had numerous people do research, study, and try hand pollinating it just to try to produce seeds, but nothing ever worked. I was finally able to do it! It's such an overwhelming feeling to know that I have actually helped out the ILRI Forage Diversity Genebank in my 2 months of being here. It's an amazing feeling, and it has made me realize there's a lot I'm capable of, and never underestimate myself. I really hope that the Genebank and Tekla (the main person who will hand pollinate it from now on at Zwai) will be successful in producing more seed pods!

Millie and I did our seminar on Friday afternoon at 3. That day is a total blur. We went over it with Dr. Jean in the morning, she suggested us to add a few things in, and by the time that was all finished, it was already lunch time! Lunch lasted a while because it started pouring rain outside, so no one wanted to walk out in that. We didn't get back to the office until after 1:30, and Millie and I were to head to the Seminar Room at 2:15 to hook everything up and make sure everything works. Because people here function off "Ethiopian time," we didn't start our seminar until roughly 3:10 or so. We finished within about a half an hour, then questions, and then we were done! Everyone said it was great! No one knew how much work we actually did and were amazed by everything we did during our time here! It was so great! They all said they loved our presentation as well! We kept it full of information, but lively and interesting! It was super! :) 

After everyone left, Millie and I decided it would be a good time to hand out our gifts to everyone. We told Dr. Jean we had to head to our hostels really quick, and she 'yelled' at us saying, "You're not done with work yet!" We all just laughed! We told her we would make it quick and be back in a jiffy! We were wrong. We stopped at Tigist's office first to give her her gift. We stayed there and talked to her for a while, but then told her we had to keep going if we wanted to get to everyone before the work day was over, but would stop by again after work to see her! Our next stop was Teklu's office since it was the closest. He invited us to sit down and talk for a while, so we did for a couple of minutes, but then told him we had to leave. As we were leaving the building, we ran into Asebe! This was great because we were going to give him a gift too! He was confused at first because Teklu had just called him telling him we were in his office and invited him to come over too. Looks like we were heading back to Teklu's office with Asebe! When we got to Teklu's office, Asebe came up with the idea that we should all go to the Zebu for some coffee since that's what we do every time we go out to the fields! Also, Asebe and Teklu picked matching hats for their gifts! How funny is that! Now they can match when they head out to the fields together!

The Dream Team

Well now that my last weekend here is coming to an end, it's all starting to really hit me that I'm about to leave. There is a holiday that's either supposed to be tomorrow or Tuesday, but it hasn't been officially announced yet. It's the end of Ramadan, so we get the day off as a holiday. So that means I only have one real day of work left! 

Tomorrow morning no matter what, Millie and I are meeting with Dr. Jean to print out our lab reports for ILRI. That's one less thing we will have to worry about after tomorrow! I just can't get over how quickly this has gone by. I feel like I just got to ILRI and still have to start working on my project. I can't believe that it's all over now. I have mixed emotions right now. I'm sad to be leaving the ILRI team and staff in the Genebank. They have all been so great to me and extremely supportive and welcoming to me. I will definitely miss the traditional food here. I have grown to love injera, tibbs, wat, firfir, and so much more! Also, just experiencing a totally different culture from what I'm used to has been so great. It's made me realize what I like about the United States, as well as some things I don't care for too much. On the other hand, I am looking forward to seeing all of my family and friends again. I left just 2 days after school ended, so I never really had time to just breathe and process all the changes. Actually, I'm very excited to see them all again. Everyone I know has been so supportive of me during this whole internship. I couldn't thank everyone enough for making this whole internship memorable and truly a life-changing experience.

Tomorrow will be my last blog post about my internship, and it's definitely going to be my favorite one to put together! Just a warning, it's going to be packed full of pictures! :)

Working on the seminar!

I accomplished a huge amount of things today, but it's not very interesting to talk about really, and I couldn't take pictures of it, so I'll keep this post nice, sweet, and short!

After 2 hours of working this morning, I had the outline for the presentation, the slides about my plants completed, 3 paragraphs for my conclusion typed, finished editing my field maps, and checked on the plants in the greenhouse I cut 1 month ago to root and then later planted in Zwai! I feel pretty accomplished! I think that if I keep working this hard tomorrow, I'll be sure to have everything completed. I really don't want to have to work on the seminar on Friday because that's just too close to when we're presenting. I want everything done, and then maybe just revising the presentation on Friday. 

By the end of the day today, I finished my lab report!!! I am so happy! The final product is 62 pages! I never thought that was possible for me! It's crazy! I can't believe how long it is! When Dr. Jean first told us about the lab report and gave us a previous student's report, I was dreading it so bad because hers was 44 pages! I though coming up with that many was going to be bad! Nope! I have a solid 62 pages! Tomorrow I plant on reading it over one last time before I turn it in to Dr. Jean to print it off. I hope it's what she wants!

After I finished my lab report, I set to work on more of the seminar powerpoint. By 6 tonight, I have a good majority of it done! I just have to add in Millie's information and pictures about both of her 2 plants, and then a little bit more information on some other slides, and it's complete! I definitely think I will be able to finish it tomorrow! Since I have my lab report out of the way for the most part, I will be able to spend the majority of the day tomorrow working on the seminar! I am so happy! 

It was sad though. This morning when Millie and I stopped by before work to talk to Dr. Jean, she asked me if I wanted Asebe to bring back any flower samples from Zwai since he was there today or if I was done. I didn't want to say it, but I told her I was done. I couldn't believe it. Everything here is coming to an end. Millie and I got our laundry done for the last time today. It is my last Wednesday here. Okay! Done thinking about it all! Onto happy things! (Or just my lunch haha)

Again. I didn't get injera for lunch. I think I'll get it tomorrow because I only have so many more times to get it! Instead I got baked fish with assorted vegetables (cabbage, zuchinni, carrots, and a few others) and potatoes with a garlic sauce drizzled on top of it all! Deeeeelicious!

The fish was so good today!

Also, Mike left last night to head to Washington, D.C. and New York last night! He said he's going to be there for about 3 weeks, so yesterday was the last time I would see him! Because of this, I decided I needed to take a picture with him! He's really great and funny, so I'm going to miss him quite a bit! Also, I loved how he always wore his sweaters like that! I've never seen him actually wear it! They're always tied around his neck like that!

Picture perfect!

For dinner tonight, Millie and I went to the Zebu again and ordered some tibbs. I didn't take a picture because it looks the same here just about every night and there's no point in taking a bunch of pictures of the same thing every day! We both wanted flavored Ambo again, but this time we ordered a pineapple flavored Amdo AND a new one! Apple flavored! It was so good! It really tastes like apple cider, so I loved it so much! Yumm!!!

Also! When I walked into my room after work today, I had new flowers! These ones are very beautiful! I'm still really curious why I'm getting flowers in my room now... Oh well! I love them because they're so gorgeous!

So pretty:)

 Lastly, while on my run this morning, so many of the guards yell: "Good for you! Keep going! Good you're running! Nice job!" and so many other things like that! I finally decided to take a picture of one the the guards who yells all of those things to me every day! He was very happy to take the picture as you can see! :) A few times, he actually ran a little with me! It was only a couple meters, but it was still so great. We were both laughing for a while at that. Good times! Going to miss it!

Perfect pose!

Exactly one week left!

Today was so productive! I got a LOT of work done!

I'll start with my lab report! First of all, it's a solid 59 pages long! I didn't that was possible for me to do! (But I'm secretly extremely proud of it:)...) Millie and I finished organizing all of the information from the seed producer interviews today, so I was able to add that into my appendices! I just have to add a few more charts we made that still need to go in, but other than that the seed producer information is all done! Check that off my things to do! Also, I finalized the field map of both of my fields! They're not actual pictures. It's an excel document that shows all of the plots and their numbers. Today, I figured out all the plot numbers that contain my plants and labeled those into the maps! That actually took quite a bit of time! It required me going into Dr. Jean's office and asking for the plot numbers, so like always, I came out of her office knowing a million more things than I came in there for! (Which I love so much don't get me wrong! I adore it!)

Even though I came into her office just to ask about the plot numbers, I started asking more questions about the Canavalia plants! She told me there were way more than just 2 Canavalia accessions in Zwai! I was thinking there were only a few more, but she ended off listing off over 5 others! Also, what I found weird was all of those other accessions I didn't know about were all the same species! They have different accession numbers for testing purposes. I asked Dr. Jean why they had planted so many of the same species, and she said that a few years ago, one of the institutions they work with in Mexico was planning on doing a study on that species of Canavalia, but never ended up doing it. ILRI had those planted just for the Thesis because the plants need time to grow for at least 2 years before testing is done on them. Now that that test was never done, there are a bunch of Canavalia ensiformis just growing in the Zwai field! So if you know anyone that wants to do any testing on Canavalia ensiformis, just let me know! :)

Tomorrow I just need to finish up my Conclusion, edit my last couple sections, and then I'm done and ready to turn it in! Can't wait! :)

In all of the other time during work, Millie and I went exploring the campus! Or at least kind of... Not by choice. We had to get our Clearance sheets signed by various people, so we wandered around campus trying to scout out where to go. For most of them, I led because I think Millie doesn't like to embarrass herself for walking into the wrong place:) I would walk into a room and say I needed such and such signed for clearance, and they would tell me: "you're in the wrong place. Go in this direction, turn left, walk 20.5 paces, walk into this building, down the hall and 2 doors down on your right. Got it?" Uhh...... sure....... Try to follow directions, and end up walking in the wrong room again, but only off by one room or so! It was so confusing! I honestly haven't ever been in half of the building I had to go in today for signatures! Thankfully though, Millie and I got all the signatures before the end of the work day ended! Woo! Now we just have to turn them into Tigist tomorrow morning so she can file for our last paychecks!

Tomorrow Millie and I plan on starting putting together our powerpoint for our seminar on Friday! It's already set! 3:00 PM Friday afternoon! :) We still have to come up with a name for it. My idea was: "Millie and Kayla's Adventure with Plants and in the Fields," but Millie wasn't a fan... I thought it was good... :)(Totally kidding. We joked about that earlier.)

For lunch today, I got Durham cutlet and macaroni noodles with a garlic sauce on top And a side of mashed potatoes! Can't beat that! Yumm!!!

Delicious!

For dinner, Millie and I went to the Zebu again. Still not feeling like cooking... We ordered a hamburger, fries, and farmer's salad to share. We literally share everything! Even drinks sometimes! :) The burgers here are very strange though. There's so much bread! The top bun was over an inch thick!

Very good hamburger! Just a lot of bread!

Just as good as last night!

While we were waiting for Tigist to get to her office this morning, I noticed this really neat plant! It reminds me of the girly camo pattern... I don't know. Call me crazy maybe... I thought it was still cool for a plant to have leaves like this!

Aren't they cool?!

Just thought you all would appreciate me posting a picture other than the food I'm consuming...:)

A great start to my last full week!

As I said in my blog from yesterday, Millie and I made cookies again for the staff in the Forage Diversity Genebank for our Monday Morning Meeting! I personally think these were some of our better cookies! The banana slices wouldn't stay on top, so we used some of the chocolate spread, or a different brand of what's supposed to be Nutella, and then placed the banana on top of that.

I was so surprised when we walked into the meeting room carrying them! Everyone was so excited for our cookies! Before today, I thought everyone was just being nice and eating them so we wouldn't feel bad about ourselves, but this morning, I could tell everyone was excited! They even said (jokingly I'm sure) that after Millie and I leave, everyone has to take turns and make a treat for the meetings every week! That was Temeselew's idea, so I take it he's the first volunteer? :)

This morning Millie and I decided to go to breakfast again this morning. It's so tough going there sometimes because you have to have the exact amount of money. It costs 60 birr per morning you go, and you have to have that, or you're stuck going the next day and paying for both days. To make this easy, Millie and I both handed them 300 birr to last us the entire week! At first he was hesitant to take it, but after we promised him we would show up every morning, he accepted it and smiled. Then him and the manager both told us to have a great day and they'll see us tomorrow! :) Yes'sir you will!

For some reason we took forever at breakfast this morning! It was almost 8 by the time we got back to our hostels to get our things for work, put the bananas on top, and finish up getting ready! Our meetings start at 8:30 sharp (which doesn't exactly follow the whole "Ethiopian time," but oh well! haha) We both had to hurry in order to get there on time! We made it with a couple minutes to spare, which was good! Because we were rushed this morning, I didn't get a picture like I promised, so sorry! I really wish I took one because they actually looked good!

I felt really bad. I didn't have enough time to was all of the dishes this morning before work... I washed all but one. It was the biggest dish too. I was really hoping that the women who clean my room every day wouldn't clean it, but that didn't happen... It was really strange though... When I got home after work, I found something really strange by my stove...

Notice anything strange???

There was a stick by my burner! I have no idea how it got there! Sticks don't just show up places. It couldn't have blown through my window... But I don't know how else it got there! Maybe the women got mad at me for leaving a dirty dish... Who knows!

Work today was really good! After the meeting I immediately set to work! My lab report is due before I leave and our seminar is this Friday! It's crunch time! Right away I started some work on my lab report while Millie worked on making some charts based off the interviews and the seed producers' answers. Later that morning, I headed off to Dr. Jean's office to ask her for some documents for my appendices. I needed quite a bit of documents and I knew she had them and could give them to me digitally so I didn't have to retype everything. I went it just to ask for a few things, thinking it would only take a couple minutes, and ended up staying just short of an hour! Dr. Jean gave me the whole load down about the finance of how all of ILRI functions. Very interesting, I'll admit! Just not my complete interest... I did get all of my appendices added in today, so now I just have to edit and tweak everything and add in my conclusions/suggestions and then I'm good to go! 

Now it's food time! I decided to have injera for lunch today! I was craving something different and since I haven't had it for a while, so I went for it!

Meat, lentils, and potatoes and carrots khat with injera!

For dinner, Millie and I went to the Zebu. Neither of us were really feeling the whole cooking thing tonight, so that would do! We ordered the Farmer's Salad and a serving of tibbs to share! To drink we both got the pineapple flavored Ambo, which was good! I love that flavor so much! The salad was very tasty this time! Usually there's a lot of cabbage, but this time there was an even amount of everything! Also, the dressing was good! It was slightly sweet, but loaded with flavor! Even the tibbs was delicious! I'm always satisfied with tibbs. It's always good! Tonight it was slightly spicier than it usually is. I think they added some of the spicy chili sauce in with it instead of putting it on the side like it usually is. Despite both Millie and my constant sniffling because of the spiciness, we finished both dishes in no time! :)

Mmmhhhmmm:) Deeeeeelicious!

We were handed our sign-out sheets today... That means we're officially leaving soon... Tigist called tonight to tell me that tomorrow we need to start getting it signed. She's hoping we get it all signed by the end of the day tomorrow, but if not, by Wednesday morning. She can't file for our payments until we turn those in. I feel like it's the last day of school again... Having all my teachers sign me out again. Except this is professors, finance workers, and many more. Half of the people who have to sign, I've never even met them or been inside the building! It's needed to to this though because otherwise I won't receive my last paycheck. And that's given to me in American dollars! How super! I have no idea how much it is though. I don't really care either. That's not what this internship is about. I didn't think I was supposed to get paid for this, but it turns out I am.

I just feel like this week is going to fly by! I mean Monday is already over! Also, I can't believe Dakota Olson is leaving his internship in Mexico already! It's all going by so quickly!