green plastic watering can

Yesterday was pretty sweet.

and I just have to say it, because Steph, the rumors are true
WE WENT GROCERY SHOPPING IN FRANCE

[steph and i a month ago - looking forward to our internship
"oh what are you doing this weekend"
"oh i'll probably just go grocery shopping....in France."]

yeah, it happened - look forward to it Stephanie, look forward to it.

But on top of that, last evening we [we = large group of interns/employees (with our organizations and other NGO's)] went to a restaurant...or a guys apartment..or the back-end of a random alley...i guess thats all relative...anyways, we got Eritrean food [or Ethiopian food, depending on who you talk to] Essentially its this huge platter of a spongy sort of flat bread covered in lettuce, tomato, sour cream, meat, spinach, lentils, that you break off and eat and share. It's freaking awesome - Heather's camera should have snap shot of the food platter (we got about four platters) and of the random alley - I don't have those photos, but I will get a hold of them and upload them straight away.
The interesting thing about this group of interns/employees that seem to have created this mini network, is that they all work for these NGO's doing such interesting and important work. They focus on everything from human rights, to hiv/aids, the environment, global trade, development, etc in areas from all over the world. These people are all well traveled, well educated, well cultured, and are putting their talents to good use - they are passionate about what they are doing; helping to change situations, to fight oppression, etc. It's really something to be exposed to a group of people like that. And its not like everyone sits around and plays pretend philosophy club, but when their work comes up, when their master thesis, when an issue is raised..they speak about it with such passion and with such interesting opinions...I guess its great to see people loving what they are doing..

I also saw Harry Potter last night....
I hadn't read this book - I was told to stay away. While I could understand the plot being a touch weaker compared to the others, I have to say the most true thing I heard - in terms of criticism - is that the film doesn't necessarily flow so much as it jumps from one story point to the other. I thought the first segment was fabulous, and that the new characters who were introduced were very well played/directed.

In terms of work
I am still getting into the swing of things. I spent most of yesterday working on some rather easy web edits which could have, or should have, taken only a few minutes to complete, but rather took nearly half the day because I had to search my way through the mass amounts of content to find the pages/documents I wanted to link to. However, that extra time spent searching [and, of course, making ridiculous mistakes while preparing and uploading] allowed me to get to know the ins and outs of the website/cms a bit better. I guess until tyop3 is installed for the TWA site and Mike and I start to hash out transferring [or rather properly transferring, as I tried to write up the code without having the cms actually on the server in order to compare] the template - I guess until then - I'll just try to keep up with web edits and listservs and etc etc.

Today I cleaned my room and kitchen cupboard, started making things more organized and livable since it seems this foyer is where we are like 98%-sure-going-to-stay. It looks like a quiet weekend - which I'm happy with. Just a couple of days to actually get settled and do some work that has been lagging.

I got a plant to help liven up my room...
I don't have a plant name yet - so if anyone has some suggestions, then comment it up.