Log #6

Last week, I worked at the Taipei International Convention Center for assisting a four-day conference. It’s a working group meeting about the transportation belongs to the economies of APEC. My job is to cooperate with the chair for minor meeting on certain field and to operate the Power Point if the economy need to do a presentation. At the first day, I was assigned to help the “Side Meeting on Women in Transportation.” I was so nervous that I was shivering while talking to the chair. Thanks to my partner who is clever and patient. Things go smoothly as the first experience. There were an Opening Plenary and a Closing Plenary on 4/25 and 4/28 perspectively, and my job is to standby in the meeting room. In the end of the conference, the staff had to arrange the room for the next meetings. Everything on the table had to be organized in one line. We spent the whole night to settle all the stuff like glasses, bottles of water, candies and name cards. We had to make sure they are all clean and the numbers are correct.

        Next two days, expert group and sub-group meeting went on from 8 o’clock to 5 o’clock. During that time, I got a chance to observe how an International conference was held. There was an agenda to follow and each of them get well prepared. Each time they had a discussion or after a presentation, the chair had to summarize and gave comment. Sometimes, if they didn’t arrange a meeting, they would discuss with certain economy on a private room. During that period, we were free and we could take a rest. Luckily, the hotel prepared some snakes for the coffee break and we could bring the rest of the sweets home after the work.

Last day in the afternoon, we went to have a Technical Tour according to four aspects, including land, aviation, maritime and intelligent transportation. I accompanied them to see the Electronic Toll Collection System at Freeway Bureau. It’s such an amazing experience that we had a good time to observe how the machine operate and how humanity deal with the big data. Finally, by joining this event, I not only met some new friends but also learned the attitude of service. We, as staff in an International occasion, we created a good image of Taiwan. We all made an effort and did a good job.