Settling down in NY

Hi all,

as many of my friends, this has been my first week of internship. I started on Monday 13th and I arrived NY the day before (sunday). And here comes my first advice, try to arrive at least a few days before your internship starts to settle down in your new home. I couldn't come before because I was working in my home country (Peru) in a 5 weeks internship, and I just finished the to work on Friday 10th. Thanks God, I already had an apartment, which made things easier, though I didn't see it before (only from photos). Thanks God again, it is much much better than I expected... It is gorgeous :) I am so happy with it!!! Well, I arrived and just had time to buy the basic things.

Sooo the first day arrived... Citi wanted to welcome all the summer interns, so we all met in one of Citi's building in Manhattan. We were around 200 summer interns from different programs (Finance, Human Resources, Investment Baking, Consumer Banking and other that I don't remember now). After this welcome, all the Consumer Banking Interns moved to our building in Long Island City, Queens. We had two days of general training about Citibank and Consumer Banking. On Wednesday, each of us moved to our areas to meet our bosses and group. I met my boss, who has a great and long experience in Credit Cards. Though, he is pretty new in Citi US as he has been working in Australia and China for Citi for the last 4 years. I am very happy because I am sure I would learn a lot from him. I already know about but my project, which is analyze and propose a new strategy for a existing business credit card. It seems really interesting and will keep you posted about it!

This week has been about know the company and group where I am, and I really enjoyed it. However, what I enjoyed most is the group of SA (Summer Associates) of my group. We are 16 interns from different universities and backgrounds. Definitely, we are a diverse group, there is people from China, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Philippines, Peru (me) and US. We are a rally nice group and we get along really well, this is why we already had a first happy hour and we have named a Social Chair to organize social events each week. I think that by the end of the summer, not only I would have learned a lot about banking but also earned really good friends!!

Keep you updated in the next post, hope you are all enjoying the summer!!

Shila