My First Day at Work

Last week I started a new job at a small company. I was so nervous the night before that I couldn't sleep. I changed my shirt three times in the morning and arrived thirty minutes early.

My manager, Bu Ratna, showed me the office and introduced me to everyone. I forgot most of the names immediately. Someone gave me a desk near the window and a computer that took ten minutes to start.

The work wasn't hard, but everything was new: the system, the words people used, where the coffee was. At five o'clock I was more tired than after a whole week at my old job. But I went home smiling.