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Week Ten

This week was much more different than previous weeks.
My boss and his team had a workshop program somewhere in the outskirts of Rome. Thus I did all my work remotely. I was in charge of finishing the infograph, which took so much more time, effort, and energy than I had expected. I had had a solid idea on how to go about it, except it did not work. I was forced to try multiple ways. Through this trail and error, I found that the best way to present the information was via a Prezi presentation. And that's what I did. I'm not the biggest fan of Prezi, so figuring out how everything runs took its time. Through the difficulties of this task I emailed back and forth with Erica to iron out some of the wrinkles that popped up. She was very kind and very prompt and she was very helpful. Finally after much, much work, I had finished the infograph in a way that flowed and made sense.
Since I wasn't in the office this week, everything I did for my internship seemed off. I was in the IC but instead of doing work for classes I was doing work for my internship. Another thing that was odd, was that since I didn't have to commute, I was able to get much more done than I do in the office. It's amazing how much time and energy is used via Rome's public transportation.
In the end, what still amazes me about the company in which I intern is that regardless of if I'm in the office or not, the majority of the work can be done remotely yet things run smoother when everyone is in the office.
I hope that next week their out of town programme is finished and I  can go back and work in the office and feel part of the team again :)



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