Competition Law

My first internship, well, people wouldn't technically call it an internship since it only lasted 3 days, but in my head, this was still my first one. I was visiting India over the summer, and we were living in my uncle's house in New Delhi. I showed a lot of interest in practicing law, and my uncle was a lawyer, so this was perfect. He and I always got along perfectly ever since I was small; he is probably the reason why I am so interested in this field. So I asked him a couple of months back if I could possibly shadow him while we stayed at his house, and he was more than happy to show me his day-to-day life. On the first day, it was a 1-hour drive in peak New Delhi traffic in the morning, so it wasn't the most ideal way to start off our day. He called one of his co-workers during the car ride to discuss my assignments for my time at the firm. I had to research about ketchup. I know ketchup sounds super boring, but it was pretty interesting the more I looked into it. Did you know India consumes up to 13,800 tons of ketchup annually? Anyways, after we arrived, I greeted all the lawyers at the firm and got assigned my job for the next three days over a Google Meets video call. So time passes, and lunch rolls around. I have been eating Indian food in America for the past 4 years. That feeling of eating butter chicken from an award-winning restaurant in India was truly divine. I ate so much to the point where I slept on the car ride back to the firm, and I slept for the rest of the workday. My uncle didn't like me sleeping in the office, so I had to go sleep in his car. The next day, I had finished most of the research I needed to do, so I spent most of my day editing this website and emailing lawyers about my interview questions. That day for lunch, we ate chole bhature, which was also amazing, and surprisingly, I didn't sleep on the way back to the office, and I edited my website the rest of the time there. That evening, we went to the mall to meet my mami, and we had a ton of fun at an arcade and a delicious dinner afterward. The final day, on the car ride to the office, my uncle told me that I needed to have a speech prepared since it was my last day interning at the firm. That had me stressing because I had a bunch of other things on my to-do list, and on top of that, I needed to make up a speech by the end of the day. So I started my day off by interviewing every lawyer at the firm, asking them questions, and publishing briefs on my site. At lunch, we ate at Qureshi's, and after lunch, I edited my website some more. By the time 5 pm rolled around, I found out that half the co-workers had already left and that my uncle was just bluffing about the speech. So then I got called down and was handed a certificate. They took a picture of me and my uncle, and we headed back home. These 3 days have taught me so much more about law than any school club or extracurricular activity I had done before, and I am forever thankful for my uncle giving me this opportunity.