so I'm sitting in a cubicle on the 5th floor of the China World Trade Center (Tower 2) on a tiny little Dell laptop they lent me that is soooo much faster than my old Toshiba so I've taken quite nicely to it. This is such a random job.
So I showed up yesterday morning and they're like hey! um. everyone's at the conference so you can settle in here (a conference room) and we'll try to get you a computer. That's it. no instruction or anything... and that's where I sat until about noon when the computer actually came. That was 3 quality hours of listening to Harry Potter on my iPod. Then we went for lunch and met with some of the team members (there are only about 9 in total) and met Calvin Xu (the guy I'm working for) for the first time. He's a friend of my dad's from Pace Global where they used to work and could have sworn he'd met me before, but he hadn't. He then suggested that I attend the conference so they usher me in and give me a headset so I could listen to the translator (ok that was kind of cool) and I got to listen to hours and hours of people talking about greenhouse gas emission reductions. This could have been really cool, unfortunately I was really tired and the translators had especially dull and uneventful voices. After a coffee break I got much better. I wrote down a few highlights from the conference on my notepad... let's see...
oh, this guy was talking about the gas their generators use or produce or something but he kept on talking about "coke" and how they're working on producing "coke" and how "coking" is so important. I was very confused. Turns out he was talking about cooking gas. go figure. um what else. Oh, someone was trying to emphasize going through the government to get their support but the way they pronounced legal made it come out as illegal ("eh-legal" i guess) every time and that amused me greatly.
ok it was funnier yesterday, seriously. and i was really tired. i must not have wrote it down in a funny way :P
Oh so I didn't mention what CHUEE is. I've been working on editing their website all day so I think I have a handle on it now. So China asked the IFC (International Finance Corporation.. the private sector arm of the World Bank) to create a new program/finance initiative based on energy efficiency or renewable energy. The IFC created CHUEE (China Utility-based Energy Efficiency Finance Program) organizes energy utilities, energy efficiency equipment and services suppliers and financial instituations to create networks that support energy efficiency. basically. I've been reading about it all day and it's all starting to blur together.
Anyway, I don't really have a set task here. Calvin mentioned I could look over the website to see if it needs editing (the english site is kept up by the in-office staff) and so I've decided to increase it's skim value (hehehe, yay comm school!) I spent today on the FAQ. (and catching up on some tv... oops.) it's so hard to stay focused here. it's me and 2 secretaries plus a 'real' intern while everyone else is traveling to different sites for the conference.
soooo yeah. I'm stalling before I leave since Maryam moved into a new apartment yesterday and there's no internet there yet. It's a really sweet apartment though. it's now a 25 kuai taxi ride away (roughly $3) which isn't as nice as being able to walk, but oh well. It's a nice place to hang out. I should probably leave soon, though. It's like me and one other person... and that's Calvin's personal secretary so she probably has real work to do. I think she's writing a speech for him right now.
Sigh I guess I should get home. I even ran out of shows to watch. Recently I've caught up in Heroes, Grey's and Gilmore Girls. (thanks fanpop.com!) so I guess I should just go. Blah.
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