Day 1 was all about team building and having fun and we did just that. I can already tell I will have a great time at work and after work with this group. They are all outgoing and enjoy being silly (the men too; there are only three of them). It's tradition every year -- each Reading Partners office creates a video welcoming the others to the new year. Our video was to the whole network from CA to DC. We decided to do our video as if we were all a part of Reading Addicts Anonymous.(Get it!?!?!) We were each a different city or state that Reading Partners was located in such as Sacramento, Twin Cities, NYC, North Carolina etc. As Jess panned the room with her Iphone, we each introduced ourselves as the state or city we were acting as while wearing or holding something that represented it. I had South Carolina and I was pretending to eat a peach. "Hi, my name is South Carolina and yes....I'm a Reading Addict." "Hi South Carolina!" says the group. I can't wait to see it!
Tuesday through Friday were tough for I had trainings to do online as well as getting myself familiar with SalesForce, a platform we use to organize donations from organizations etc. It's a whole nother world to me because of language I don't know and the protocol I have to learn as well. On top of all that, the person who had my position last year left before his full year was up. As an AmeriCorps member, you're required to serve a full year unless something urgent happens and in this case the person joined the military. Also, the Development Manager, who is supposed to be "in charge" of me and train me quit unexpectedly and therefore the Executive Director has been doing that instead. She's super supportive and I already love her, but she's swamped every single day and I'm just glad she wants to be there for me.
Plus, I know more problems!? Yes, for whatever reason I didn't have access to email until Tuesday afternoon. The National office in LA had been sending me important emails since early August that I hadn't gotten till then. So all week, I was playing catch up with paperwork that needed to be done and office programs that I needed to learn my way around. Then there was an issue with getting into these different programs and setting up an account and all that. Then there was an issue of getting my own computer, meaning a computer without someone else's passwords already saved. One computer locked me out completely after trying to reimaging it (setting it back to factory settings). Another computer would only let me into my email and Sales Force, nothing else. Finally tried another computer today and the WiFi won't turn on. Crazy huh!? I guess the computers are boycotting my presence? Maybe it's just cause they are all Macs. (I'm not a fan of them either).
Oh, well. Monday will be a new day and possibly a better one. This weekend, I'm going back to Colorado Springs for the Wulfs are throwing me a "You Survived!" party. lol It should be a fun weekend!
Below are pictures from my office. Don't I have such a magnificent view! So glad we are on the 7th floor and not the basement!!
Until the next installment of Ruth's escapades! See you later.
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