Daily post March 31, 2008

Helllooo.........
The beginning of internship AGAIN.
Okay. Nikita send all of us a mail. It said,
Hi Syria, Shalom, Sunny, Umer and Makhsut,

On Monday and Tuesday you will go to the Guild Gallery to unpack all the artwork and help organize everything in detail. The address for the Guild is

45 West 21st Street, Suite #39, 2nd Floor, NYC 10010

(212) 229 2110- Phone number for the Guild

Regards,

Nikita.
So we went. Before getting there, we walked in the rain for like 3o minutes looking for the place. My feet were soaking wet. There was a puddle in my shoes. My toes couldn't move. I had to stick them up before walking. Anyway, we got to the place, me and Diana. Syira, Umer, Arma, Sunny and Macksut were already there. When we were just about to enter the elevator, they came out and said that Nikita called them and told them to come back to the office. So that meant, i came there for nothing. The place was on West 21st and our office is on West 29st. So we walked back to the ofice, in the rain. Usually we took the taxi but they said we had to talk. Okay, so we came back to the office. When wee arrived, i took off my shoes because they were soaking wet. We said hi to Nikita and Prachi but they didn't answer. Amina, the art director, mentor for Macksut and Umer, called Nikita and she was talking to the person. When she finished talking she said that we had to go back to the office. We didn't even take off our jackets yet. Anyway, we asked her if we had to go now and she said in half an hour. Meanwhile we were working. This is the funny part. Nikita was cutting some paper. And she asked Syira and I, "Which one of you is more creative." I said, "Syira." Syira and I were thinking that when Nikita said, "Creativy", she meant something really nice looking that Syira would make. BUT GUESS WHAT! She gave her and I 2 pairs of scissors and told us to cut paper. So we were doing that and Arma and Umer were stamping the paper. Ms. Aarti came and had a talk with Prachi..blah blah..I couldn't hear them.
A few minutes ater, Nikita told us that we had to go back to the gallery. When we were getting ready, she was telling us that we had to leave now, chap chap. it's an emergency. I asked her if we can have the money for the taxi. (she usually gives us the money) She said no that we don't need money. "It's just a matter of walking a few blocks" she said but she forgot to say that i was raining. Anyway, we walked back to the gallery. When we got there, we unpcked so many boxes. We had to be careful because there were art things in them. That part was fun. The woman Jennifer is nice. We talked a lot and she was asking us questions but we were working at the same time also. Ms. Aarti and Ms. Sherien came and were visualizing all the art we unpacked. They said, they would give us xtra credit if we write about one of the pieces of art. Then they left. Jennifer told us to go get some fresh air and come back because we were finished. We bought food and we came back. We ate. We bought water for her too. BLAH BLAH BLAH...At the end, she said we could go. We went back to the office and then we left from there. It was fun.
THE BAD PART OF THIS DAY WAS WHEN I ALMOST GOT HIT BY A CAR. ME AND SUNNY WERE WALKING TRYING TO CROSS THE STREET.I WAS THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING SUNNY TOLD ME. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, I JUST WALKED RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD. THIS BLACK CAR ALMOST RAN OVER ME. THIS AFRICAN MAN SAVED MY LIFE. HE PULLED ME BACK OR I COULD HAVE BEEN FLAT ON THE FLOOR. I HATE THIS. I'M CRYING..THE REST OF THE TIME, I WAS SO SHOCKED I COULDN'T SPEAK. I LOVE YOU STRANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!