Life as an intern

So I know I haven't updated in a while, as lately I haven't been on any exciting international trips or thrown any parties. I have however started my internship at an accounting firm. It's an audit internship, so I've been assigned two different clients for which I will be doing financial statement audits. My first client is located in San Antonio, so this past week I stayed in a hotel in San Antonio in order to work on that client. It was definitely an interesting experience.

However, having to drive to SA did have its perks. For one, I got to meet up with my boyfriend who I hadn't seen in 3 weeks! He's still in school in San Marcos, and I am now working in Houston so it's hard to coordinate our schedules and see each other, even on weekends as he works in a museum so usually works on the weekends, whereas I work long hours during the week.

I arrived Sunday night so he came and met me in San Antonio. We walked around La Cantera, a very nice shopping mall which was close to the hotel I stayed in. I bought some tops from Ann Taylor & Banana Republic, then we were both hungry so we went to dinner. I have an app on my phone called HappyCow, which shows you all of the vegan & vegetarian-friendly restaurants in your nearby area so I used the app to find a great pizza place that made vegan-friendly pizza with Daiya cheese. The place is called Fralo's Art of Pizza, and although we were in San Antonio it actually says it's in Leon Springs, TX. It's a nice place right off the feeder with indoor & outdoor seating. We chose outdoor as it was a lovely evening and there was live music outside.

We started off by ordering a bottle of Starborough, a New Zealand sauvignon blanc.
I decided on the vegan pizza with daiya mozarella, topped with zuchinni, spinach, mushrooms, and fresh garlic.
Sean opted for a very non-vegan pizza which consisted of double cheese (I believe parmesan & provologne?) with Italian sausage and green peppers.

We were both very happy with our orders.

And also very happy to see each other.
All in all it was a great night out.

The next morning I started work at my first client.
The work consisted of going through endless excel spreadsheets & data... I worked on auditing the cash & capital assets of the company. That's all I'm going to say about that.

Living in a hotel for a week was a slight adjustment as well since I'm very used to preparing all my own meals. I went to Whole Foods on the first night and bought myself a good selection of fruit, veg, bread, snacks and spreads to keep in the fridge. I ate cold oatmeal with a banana most mornings, ate lunch out everyday with my team, and for dinner ate the veggies I had bought from WF.

One of my latest obsessions/new toys is this loose leaf tea maker I purchased online from thenecessiteas.com. I also bought some of her homemade loose leaf teas (a black tea called Mint Chocolate Chip & a green tea called Cinnamon Bear). I must admit I went to Teavana later in the week and bought four, yes FOUR more flavors of loose leaf tea because that is how much I am loving it. I've used my loose leaf tea maker every day several times a day since it arrived. It's a wonderful thing.

In the picture is a rooibos tea called Zingiber Ginger Coconut from Teavana. I also purchased a two herbal teas: Caramel Almond Amaretti and Honeybush Vanilla. And a white tea called Youthberry. All delicious.
There's two ways of making the tea in it. I'm not going to bother trying to explain all of it, if you really want to know the details you can watch the video here. The tea infuser has 3 parts: the lid, the infuser/strainer in the middle, and the glass container on bottom which is actually a layer of glass with a layer of plastic over it, so you don't even feel the heat of the tea when you're carrying it. Excellent design.

It also features a cool very zen-like design on the top of the lid. I'm very happy with this purchase. It was about $25 I believe and like I said, I've used it several times a day every day since I got it in the mail. It's already paid for itself.

I left San Antonio last night and am back in Houston for three nights, I go back to SA again on Sunday to work on the same client again next week.
Like I said though, driving has its perks as our mileage reimbursement is more than generous.

I took this picture of the sunrise on my last morning in San Antonio over loop 1604. It was of course much more amazing in person, but I wanted to capture it.

So I hope everyone has a great weekend. I'll leave you with one final thing which my boyfriend picked up for me in San Marcos and gave me when we met up.... very exciting... drum roll please...

My diploma from Texas State University!
Double major in Accounting & Finance!
Yipee. Nice to have the actual piece of paper.

That's all for today folks.