Monday, 10.04.2017

Today was the day.

The first day at our internships started.

For all of us, that meant navigating through the London Underground on our own. Since we had explored a lot of London the week before and had practiced riding the subway, it was not a big hurdle anymore.

For me, today was my first day at London Duck Tours at Waterloo Station. Since they were not expecting me yet, I got to go on a sightseeing tour with London Duck Tours to get an overview of what my company actually does.

They offer a very special type of sightseeing where you explore the city from the road and the Thames on amphibious buses - also called 'DUCK'.

After the tour, I went back to the office and completed smaller tasks until the end of my workday.

Since we are all placed in different companies, I will also tell you a bit about my first day at Elizabeth House in East London.

Elizabeth House is a social institution that mainly takes care of children from socially disadvantaged families and provides them with a structured and entertaining program for a small fee after school or during holidays.

When I arrived there at 9:00 a.m., things started right away because the children are dropped off or even picked up by employees at this time. Although I work in the office and had to do mostly filing yesterday to tidy up the mess a bit, I still feel like I'm working with the children because the office doors are left open here, so you hear the playing children all day and also get a visit from the little ones from time to time.

The colleagues here make a great effort to make the children have a nice day and they are also a well-coordinated team among themselves, so I can only say that although it's something completely different compared to work at home, it's definitely interesting to experience.

Let's see what the coming weeks have in store for us!

Teresa & Vanessa