First Day!!!

Hello!!

So today was the first day working with World Wide Workshop. In the morning, I seriously had NO idea what to expect. I got to 110 Greene 15 minutes early (didn't know how long it was going to take to set aside to much time) and waited as Idit and Shannon walked in with a box of delicious pastries (yuuuummmmm!). After everyone walked in (late because of course the trains were messed up which is nothing strange). We spent quite some time introducing ourselves and explaining why we were interested in WWW and what we've done with computers. A common thread between all of us (young and old, newbies and veterans) is Idit's energy and enthusiasm when she gives presentations.

Our conversation led to Facebook and MySpace, which we were reluctant to talk about at first, probably because we didn't see a connection or maybe because we cannot image someone not in high school or college with one of these.

After all this information thrown at us at what seems high speeds, we did some mindless work and help the move from the old office to the new. Then came the moment we were all waiting for: playing with the XO computers!! We played around with the network and tried to chat with the other XO computers. At first there were three or four robin computers so the room was filled with "Who's Red Robin?" Thankfully Itay (sorry if I spelled it wrong) came to our rescue and taught us how to change the names so finally instead of talking to Red, Green, Blue, Red & Blue Robin, I was talking to Jadry, Leslie, Rebecca and Emily. After unsuccessfully trying to save a city in SimCity and after failing miserably at the slider puzzle, it finally came time for lunch.

The hardest part of the whole day came after lunch. This part has proved to be so difficult that at 11:25pm I am still trying to figure it out. As interns at WWW, we have to create a Wiki so that we can edit, monitor and stay in touch with the rest of the team. After getting the basics done, I was trying to make mine stand out by adding a background image. First I tried using previous knowledge but that proved to be useless since Wiki uses CSS instead of HTML, which is what I know. Then I tried googling "How to put background image on Wiki page" but nothing I copied and pasted worked!! Finally I became so frustrated that I asked my friend Aixsha for help. Right now as I write, she is trying to figure out the million dollar question. But there is still no success.

Since I am leading a double life (camp counselor by day and WWW intern by late afternoon) the next time I will be back in the office will be Monday.

UnTiL NeXt TiMe!!!!
~Leticia