Last day of work with the World Bank Group
Yesterday, Friday July 25th I finished work at the World Bank.It is strange looking back to the first week I spent there when everything was new and things were moving at a fast pace. Once I got settled and made friends with the staff I really started to enjoy my work. I worked with a nice team who were always willing to talk or help me with any problems I encountered. The flags of all the member countries of the World Bank are displayed at the IFC and one of my favorite parts of the day was walking past these every morning and realizing that in some small kind of a way I was representing all the people who came from these places. This moment always evoked a sense of pride and responsibility in me. The bank has the financial power to change the lives of millions of people around the globe and I am sure I will look back in a few weeks time with a feeling of gratefulness that I got a chance to work there for a period of time. In the afternoon my boss and people from our team went out to a nearby café to say goodbye and reflect and laugh about some of the fun we had over the last few weeks. I then went back to the office, tidied up a few things and sent an email around to the whole department thanking them all for their help.
It was strange walking past security for the last time, knowing my ID badge would be out of date by tomorrow and wondering when I would be back here again. I walked up Pennsylvania avenue to Farragut square and then towards K street where I met Ian, Clare, Neal and Judy at starbucks café to start planning and preparing for the Summer farewell party on next Saturday in the Hilton hotel. It will be our last night together and it is bound to be special. After our meeting we headed to Chinatown, got something to eat and then went to see the movie “Mamma Mia”. It was all ABBA music and a funny story line. We all had a good laugh and it was a nice way to celebrate the end of our internships.
