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April 14th, 2025

Week 4 of my internship here in Auckland was productive. I did my normal morning tasks of reconciling accounts and journal entries and preparing invoices to be processed, but in the afternoons, I worked on going through the criminal watchlist and making the draft for the unclaimed money policy and I was able to finish both! My bosses were happy with my work and tomorrow I will be given a new task to work on. So far everyone on the team has been very friendly and helpful when teaching me new things. Even while performing the same tasks, I receive […]

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April 14th, 2025

From After Work Adventures to Sunday Funday: My Fourth Week in the Little Red Dot

Hello! We’re halfway through Singapore—can you believe it? I find myself constantly thinking the days are crawling, but the weeks are flying by. So while 26 days doesn’t sound like that many, there are still so many things we have planned to finish. After Work Adventures The Witch’s BrewTuesday night after work, Lauren and her parents were gracious enough to invite us all to happy hour. A no-brainer—so me, Maddie, and Stella accepted the invite. The Witch’s Brew was exactly what you’d expect—imagine magic-themed drinks with smoke pouring out of them and food that lights on fire before you eat […]

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April 13th, 2025

Week 13 in Asia Pacific

This week moved at a slightly slower pace. The focus shifted more toward work and less on adventure, though there were still some highlights. Monday through Friday felt like one long loop: eat, sleep, work, repeat. Most of my time was spent completing the tasks assigned at my internship. Since I’m working at a real estate company, my responsibilities have mainly involved market research, data entry, and assisting with client interactions. One long-term benefit I’ll take away from this trip is learning how to cook for myself. Before this trip, my cooking skills were limited to making sandwiches and eggs. […]

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April 12th, 2025

Eating spicy

This week I’ve gotten more used to my work environment and got a good start on the accounts payable aging report. I’ve gotten all of the Excel functions to work and just need to work on the Excel macros. The videos I’ve watched have been pretty helpful and I’m starting to get the hang of using the more difficult Excel functions. This week consisted mostly of me eating or learning to cook. I work from home every Friday and I got a bit bored eating at the mall near Orchard. I ended up going to Suntec City to visit a […]

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April 10th, 2025

Week 12: Minecraft and Hiking

Last week, I was trying to reevaluate how I spend my time after work and I was getting to a good understanding of how much time I have left after I leave my job. Well my job moved me to a different client and now I am out of the hotel from at least 7am to 7pm. So it has been reevaluating my reevaluation. I did not think I was going to go watch it but being on Tiktok made me really want to see the Minecraft movie. I have been playing minecraft since I was at least 10 years […]

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April 10th, 2025

Week 11: Work and Cats

This week was not as eventful as I wanted it to be as work has taken up a good portion of my time. SInce being here, I wanted to get used to working a regular corporate job and valuing the time I had leftover in the day. I usually get off work at around 5:30 to 6pm and it takes me around a half an hour to get back to the hotel, so most of my day is spent in the office. It usually takes me an hour to eat, cook and cleanup so now I am left very little […]

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