So after Nick and I had a breakfast worthy of dinner we got to the office complex/park at 8 and met around 80 other interns socializing before the first orientation. The local office works differently from us in Seattle since uni students start attending week-long "myVACschool" trainings when they're still second or third years (out of 4 years). So we are training with students from ages 19-21 this week and we'll go out on engagements next week with some of them. It also turns out that these students can sign offers at any stage now and commit to doing "articles" (internship) for a three year period as soon as they get out of college.
We've been learing a lot about the career tools offered to employees and we've also been divided into 3 training rooms and 5-person business simulation teams - our team name is "Young Money" (YMCM) and we own a wine bar. At the end of the day we walked around the "Woodland Office Park" ,which is occupied by a ton of Deloitte buildings and over 3,000 D&T employees, and saw the springbok and giant guinea pigs. Supposedly they had Zebra before but they got a little too aggressive around people. I drove the Jazz home with Nick and guess what? The only excitement from all these street vendors walking between the lanes asking to get hit by car mirrors.
Random Side Notes: Turns out that Nick refers to our British English speaking gps as a "she" so we named her Jane. I'm also starting to pick up some S African traits like saying "yeh" after everything and drinking tea every morning and twice a day during office tea breaks. People are also pretty intrigued by Americans and Nick's new nickname is "Miami".
We've been learing a lot about the career tools offered to employees and we've also been divided into 3 training rooms and 5-person business simulation teams - our team name is "Young Money" (YMCM) and we own a wine bar. At the end of the day we walked around the "Woodland Office Park" ,which is occupied by a ton of Deloitte buildings and over 3,000 D&T employees, and saw the springbok and giant guinea pigs. Supposedly they had Zebra before but they got a little too aggressive around people. I drove the Jazz home with Nick and guess what? The only excitement from all these street vendors walking between the lanes asking to get hit by car mirrors.
Random Side Notes: Turns out that Nick refers to our British English speaking gps as a "she" so we named her Jane. I'm also starting to pick up some S African traits like saying "yeh" after everything and drinking tea every morning and twice a day during office tea breaks. People are also pretty intrigued by Americans and Nick's new nickname is "Miami".
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