Wednesday, 9 April 2014

Spring on the 8th floor

Wednesday was another beautiful day.  The morning was clear and crisp and made me want to keep walking by work and head back to the lake for the day.  I went to a seminar at lunch on risk communication during crises that was really interesting.  I love when people can just stand up and speak eloquently for a hour about a topic with no notes.
UNAIDS from above.
I took a break in the afternoon to go up to the 8th floor for a little dose of the mountains.  I didn't take a picture of the Jura on the other side, but you can really tell that the snow is melting up there. I am going to miss the mountains when I'm back in flat Ontario.  Although, I will be happy to see Lake Huron again.  I hope it is melted by then!
Hello mountains!
This evening I went for a drink with my friend Julia from my foyer and her intern co-worker at IP watch. It was an interesting group of IP journalist interns and landscape architects, and I got a chance to practice my French.

I also checked out of the foyer tonight, with an inspection by Therese.  I "passed" and got my deposit back. It was a pretty slow and painful process to go through each of the items and fill out all the paperwork. Therese always insists on speaking to me in English, even though I have a much easier time understanding her in French.  The laundry closes every day this week at 7:30 pm, so I may have to wait until Barcelona to do washing...

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