Wine and cheese

This afternoon at work, the cluster I work in had a little snacks and drinks party/ "meeting".  I still can't wrap my head around the idea of having wine at work, but I sure did eat a lot of cheese, and other treats!  The WHO headquarters organisational structure is impossibly complicated and acronym-laden.  After nearly 4 weeks, I still can't tell someone the name of my cluster, department and group without looking it up.

My cluster is Health Systems and Innovation (HIS), department is Health Statistics and Information Systems (HSI), and group is Surveys, Measurement and Analysis (SMA).  I usually just tell people I work in "health equity monitoring", because that is my project and what my supervisor and his staff mostly work on, but that isn't even a real department.

I have been watching some Olympics events this evening, catching up on the women's hockey win against the US and Denny Morrison's silver in the 1000m.  I've got to say that long track speed skating looks like such an incredibly painful sport.  You can really see the athletes suffering on the last lap and some just seem to hit a wall around the last curve.  That's why I found Denny Morrison's performance so impressive, he looked so solid right to the end.  I'm still working on figuring out how to stream Canadian coverage, but at least I was able to watch today on RTS (the French Swiss station) and not in Swiss-German!

(very copyrighted picture that is not mine) Go Canada Go!

French class was much better tonight, we debated the pro-EU Ukrainian protests, a topic I know at least a little bit about.  I also had a coffee before class so I wasn't so sleepy.