Money can't buy everything...

But it can buy lots of nice things!

I got a job finally! I'm working in a small hotel in the city, I'm mostly working Food and Beverage, but i'm also doing some reception work and also some housekeeping things, it's a very small hotel with only 34 rooms but that means I get expereince across all departments.

The people there are generally very nice, if not a bit cliquy, but nothing I can;t handel. My shift usually starts ar 7am, which is a killer if I went out the night before. I have to catch the 6:10am train or the 6:02am train on the weekends.I finish at 3pm which is good becuase it give me time to look around the city and shop! =D Guests are not always the nicesst, but we deal.

At least now my family aren't complaing I'm not doing anything productive...

Saving up to travel, more on that later.

Back to the Grind

Three weeks late, my first week back at Uni!

It was nice to get back to uni my chair was staring to get a permanent imprint of my butt. All my classes are new and they are Accounting and Management for Entrepreneurs, Leisure Industry Enterprise management, Leisure and Tourism Marketing and Accommodation Operations Management. How fluffy do they sound! Fancy names does not equal fancy subjects, for instance, Accommodation Operations Management involves making beds. Two of my lecturers are not the most riveting people, and I have a 8 hour Monday which from week 8 is a 10 hour Monday, but I’m not really complaining gets it all out of the way for a four day weekend! Tuesday I have one 1 hour Tute and Wednesday is 11 – 4 but with 2 tute and one lecture that usually finishes early.

After some confusion with the enrollment, my friend Qantas is now doing my course, which is fun, more people to talk my nonsense too!

The assignments are space nicely and I’m going to Queensland on September 26^th MY BIRHTDAY!

Relax take it easy...

So i've been on Uni holidays since the end of the June, hence all the blogging. My holidays have been very interesting, relaxing and fun.

So I have been on a quest to find a job, and no luck yet, but it's not for a lack for trying, people just don't want to hire me =(

No lose thought it has given me time to do other things like, get my hair cut. It's been awhile and I was out int he city with some of my mates when Steph asked Sam and I if we wanted to be 'hair models' at her mother's salon. So Sam and I took a trip to Brunswick and sat down to get our hair cut, by trainees, they weren't really trainees, they had been cutting for at lear 6-8 years, they were just learning new techniques, the girl that was cutting my hair was really nice, knew what she was doing and made my hair look great, layered all the way around, and short in the front, well short for me, it's about the same length as my face, it's what I call short. It's really good I'm wearing my hair down a whole lot more. Exciting!

I got my Uni results back, and guess what I passed everything, not well, but I passed, two B's, one C and one D. The D was for the subject i had most trouble with on the exam, truned out ok though! Need to not leave things to the last moment this semester!

I've also been driving alot with Dad, since Gary went back to Malaysia, he has been the only one to take me driving since mother gets a little to scared for me. It's been good he took me on a really long drive to Kinglake, where the devastating fires were in January. The roads were really narrow and windy, and the all i could see was black burnt tree it was very sad. I've also been generally driving around, leanring how to park it's been good, but dad gets annoyed and frustrated, but I don;t let is get to me, or else that would probally make it worse.

Life goes on....

Ooh Life goes on things will be OK,
Ooh Horhay's gone
Tomorrow is a brand new day,
Everyone makes a couple mistakes,

Somewhere along the way....

Life goes on, after all this, after school. Most people are scared because we have never known a life outside of school, of structure, of bells and classes and learning. We never stop learning, so that's one less fear.We have been institutionalised for so long, that we won't be able to stop. I don't think we have been sheltered, so to speak, some more so then other, but we have been protected, rightly so, this is our first step into the life we see all around us, but have not quite been able to grab on to.So we have to take this step. It's so defined. School for 13 years then bang. No mid-way. I don't count Uni, it's part of the rest of life.

We all think, oh what's it going to be like? I won't see my friends everyday!
Although we don't like to admit it, in 15 years you are probably not going to be friends with some of the people that you are now. Although there are always exceptions. It's not because you don't want to, or you don't like them, it's the time issue, and the things you have in common, maybe now you are thinking, but we have things in common now. Do you really? Is your common interest right now, School.

Things will be OK. I don't know that, but I can damn well hope they will be. At the moment the future it not looking too bright, what with climate change, over population, fuel shortage and the economic crisis. Hopefully we will have better these problems, so we can live the way we dreamed we would.

Everyone makes a couple mistakes. So what if you do, just pick yourself up and try again. Mistakes are there so we can learn from them, improve, and not repeat them. Without mistakes there would be no progress. Progress is good.

Somewhere along the way.

I have enjoyed this year immensely, although there are things I would defiantly change, if i had the power. It's been good. Memorable. I'm not scarred of what is to come, I'm cautious, I don't like making mistakes. I don't like falling. But if you don't fall, I won't learn how to get up.

So my first step forward onto the way with may bumps and potholes and turns
Be more decisive.
Take control.


I wish everyone the best of luck with their exam and their futures whatever you may choose to do.

clooimx

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Now playing: Benj Pasek & Justin Paul - Along The Way