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My Gap Year Journal
sweetiepi:
--- Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on January 31, 2019, 08:46:21 pm ---Heeeyyaa
So I had my first day of work today. It was pretty good except I'm pretty tired and my legs hurt from standing up all day. I haven't been this tired since the time I stayed up till 12 finishing an Engineering assessment.
Anyway. I feel like eating icecream. I'm going to go eat some ice cream.
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I know the feeling of standing up all day- that's me when I have back-to-back labs. I'm really glad work was good! ^-^
Treat yo'self to that icecream, you deserve it!!! :)
Caitlynk_22:
HEY EVERYONE!
LONG TIME NO SEE! Anyway, I have much news. Is that a real sentence? I have no idea. Right let's continue.
So I've been working for what 3 ish weeks? It's going well. I've met the three of the trainee's from the past 3 years and it's been pretty great. I must admit it is quite a bit of hard work. My boss doesn't like it when we just stand around doing nothing so she always makes me clean when there's nothing else to do. The other trainee's said that I only have to do it once but the store is so big! I also worked my first saturday on the weekend which was fine. I actually quite enjoyed it, there were more customers and my boss let me sit around (there wasn't much to do and ppl were in and out all day) because there was only the two of us there that day.
Anyway, I get paid every friday which is pretty good. I love Fridays because my boss buys us all afternoon drinks since there's a coffee shop down the street. I ask for a strawberry milkshake every time. It's great. I really like talking to my co-workers, they might be older than me but they're really nice to talk to.
I've also started doing Tafe and I have to do this boring compulsory WHS assessment. I even had to email my assessor to ask her questions about it because I didn't understand how I should set it out. Tafe assessments are so different from high school assessments. I don't know why I didn't understand what I was supposed to be doing when I looked at it. Maybe I just didn't read it properly. So I finished the first part of it but don't understand the second so I had to email my assessor again. Ugh. I feel so stuuppidddd. I feel like high school assessments are way more direct but I guess it's something I'll have to put up with.
Also! It's my 18th birthday this Friday and I am so excited! Finally I am turning 18. It's only taken a whole fricken year of being younger than all my friends which is a little frustrating.
I'm missing my friends a lot too. I try to talk to them every day (almost) but I feel like I'm being annoying. Even when its a short conversation I'm happier. I'm going up to visit them at Maquarie in March so we can kinda celebrate my birthday together. They said they're actually really excited for me to visit. I'm excited too. It'll be my first time driving through the mountains alone which might be slightly scary but i've done it lots with my mum so it should be ok.
I feel like this month is going really quickly. I feel like this YEAR is going quickly. Honestly, I think thats good because I can't tell you how excited I am to go to uni next year. Even now that I'm working and earning money, I'm like 'Just wait till next year! It'll be a year full of firsts!'. The other trainee's said that the start of the year will go quickly as will the end but the middle will go slow as because you're just doing the same thing over and over again. One of them also said I should go on a trip but I need all the money I can get for next year.
OH! I'm also getting used to standing up which is great. Yaaaaaaaaayyyyyy I still use every opportunity to sit in the singular chair behind the front counter. I don't know how they do it >_<
They also have a microwave so I can have left overs from dinner. I swear my boss is so jugdey about what I bring in for lunch. Geezzz.
Anyway. I'm going to have some lunch. Today's my Tafe day so I'm at home trying to attempt to do tafe. Wish me luck.
Isla77:
Hi Caitlyn!
Just wanted to wish all the best for your gap year, it already seems really great! So happy for you that you are enjoying your job at the bookstore, I'm sure the experience will be invaluable for you. I took a gap year too last year and starting uni soon :)
What TAFE course are you doing? I did my cert 3 in aged care, getting extra qualification through TAFE is really nice.
Happy birthday in advance for Friday :)
Caitlynk_22:
--- Quote from: Isla77 on February 19, 2019, 06:52:05 am ---Hi Caitlyn!
Just wanted to wish all the best for your gap year, it already seems really great! So happy for you that you are enjoying your job at the bookstore, I'm sure the experience will be invaluable for you. I took a gap year too last year and starting uni soon :)
What TAFE course are you doing? I did my cert 3 in aged care, getting extra qualification through TAFE is really nice.
Happy birthday in advance for Friday :)
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Thank you!
I'm doing a Cert 3 in business. I'm hoping it will help ease me into uni next year. Fingers crossed everything goes well.
Good luck for uni!
Joseph41:
--- Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on February 19, 2019, 09:31:04 pm ---Thank you!
I'm doing a Cert 3 in business. I'm hoping it will help ease me into uni next year. Fingers crossed everything goes well.
Good luck for uni!
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What's TAFE like for you on, say, a weekly basis? Would love to know more about what it's like.
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