Helping People Help Myself

Apart from finding out an office space, office key, telephone connection etc etc all by myself (with help of IT help desk who basically doesn't show up till I really harass them.....and I don't have such French skills yet), I started working on the department's annual report. Of course it's impossible to review each project because of more than 160 on-going projects that the department is currently managing; however, reading brief monthly reports gave me a good idea what/how the department did/didn't during the year. Underestimated to compile all monthly reports' the data/information into the one file (or small things took too much time as indicated in the beginning), I'm only done with half by now at 7pm (not bad!?) Tomorrow I'll join the management meeting in the afternoon (luckily I don't need to share my work yet!)