today is a very good day.

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I got up at 6:30 this morning to make it to my trial shift at the sandwich bar by 7. I made it just on time and actually had a somewhat enjoyable shift. You get all the drinks you want and a sandwich for free each shift. But by the time i was leaving at 10:30 i was tired, and already understood the till better than the woman training me (to be fair-she doesn't normally work there, she is the owner's sister helping out while they need staff.)

Then I had an hour to go home, change into office appropriate clothes, tidy myself eat and climb the massive hill up to george street where I had an appointment with a temp agency. Simon may take issue with my emphasis on the scale of the hill (though i am not actually exaggerating-it is a really big hill), but he is a sporty boy who has been climbing it for months- i am a lazy girl who hates hills. But i digress. I got the appointment and after a brief bout of confusion over the fact that the buzzer to get in was labelled with the parent companies name and not the people i had an appointment with, i was pleased to find an elevator meaning i would not have to climb to the fourth story.

I had to fill out quite a bit of paperwork and then take two tests, one on MS Word proficiency and a typing test. I passed both very well (47 words a min with 97% accuracy for those interested). The interview was actually quite nice as the woman was very relaxed. They offered me a full time job at 6.20 and hour plus holiday pay- which I get even if I don’t take a holiday- and the position will last my entire stay. It doesn’t start for 2 weeks so she is going to see if they have any short positions for the mean time, but all-in-all very good.

So I went to meet Simon at Bella Italia (which mom/beth/pat all know from London) for a rather good lunch and a celebratory bottle of wine. Simon had gone to factotum (the flat company) while I was at my appointment and found out that we did get the flat! So it will be ours from the 13 of august at the regular rate (saving about half on the festival price for a few weeks in august!). This is all very good news.

So then I went to my second interview and politely told them I had been offered a full time position else where and would not be needing the part time job. This happened after much being lost-ness due to the fact that the only directions I had were ‘MIS reception in old college’ this is basically the equivalent to ‘some obscure office you have never heard of that is on campus’ but I did find it, obviously. Now I just have to go tell the people at the sandwich bar that I will not be working there either. Although I do have two weeks to kill, and rather than leave them in a lurch I might offer to help them out for the duration (they are VERY short staffed). But that depends on what the temp agency lady tells me when she calls tonite with my job details.

Ok that is plenty for now!

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Comments

[Brianna]

Nothing but up!
Congrats on the soon to be new job! I wish I could type that fast with that much accuracy. From your blog it sounds like you are adjusting quite nicely back in your Scotish life, well except the hills. What is it with GB and its hills. Nothing but hills and stairs. Just goes to show how lazy Americans really are.