Day 19

Things have been incredibly busy here in Auckland. I haven't even had a chance to go sightseeing! Someone asked me if I had done much sightseeing and I said "Yes- I've been downtown a few times" and then I realized... Wait a minute... I haven't seen anything! (With the exception of Skytower which I see... 7 days a week... And the bridge, which I saw by accident... Missed the motorway exit.)

My SECOND week of work is almost over. I can't believe it! I've been doing a lot of training and exploring. F&P is HUGE!! Coming from the itty bitty office in Irvine, I had no idea what to expect. We have two main buildings that are broken down into blocks and color coded so that you can find things/people. I am in the orange block with the rest of Quality. I sit in the same pod as Paul and Lewis... NO PRESSURE! My co-workers are pretty cool. Some of them are kind of goofy, but then, so am I! The Customer Care team is from all over the place! A few people were born and raised in New Zealand... South Africa, Fiji, England... Pretty cool! So I've been reading procedures for all different divisions of the company. I've gotten to spend time in the OSA and RH investigations labs and will be going into the Neonatal lab (and possible the OSA Interface lab) next week. It is pretty cool! I get to rip stuff apart and do electrical tests and what not... I've also been learning how to do my own job (go figure!), which is pretty interesting. The Customer Care department gets to work with all of the various groups, so I get to meet all sorts of people. Pretty cool. And I'm not tired of the cafeteria food yet!!

On Monday we got to work and noticed a squashed car in one of the three reserved parking spots in front of the Stewart building (right outside of the window near my desk). It was big news in the office! Jonti and I made a game out of watching people's reaction to the car as they walked into the building. It was good fun. In the middle of the day Mike, Lewis, and Paul (3 of the 'big boys' at F&P) went out and stared at the car. It was extra awesome because the window was down so it got filled with rainwater. Poor broken car.
It got towed away this afternoon, so that's a bummer...

I really don't have much to say beyond work. I haven't done much other than trying to get situated and working, so I don't have any stories. =/

Paul had a great idea to start a monthly dinner club, so Jonti, Katie, Paul, Jon, and I are going to be dinner club! The last Sunday of every month we are going to visit each other and cook dinner. It should be a lot of fun, but there is pressure to make something good! I'm pretty sure it is going to get out of control...

Friday may or may not be a bonus round for the Quality team bake off. Jonti keeps telling people that I bake good cookies which sucks because now I'm going to have to bake good cookies! I hope there isn't actually a bonus round this week... It would be wrong not to participate. >__< Maybe I will pretend I don't know and wait for the next bonus round?? Ideas please...