Hello again, I should probably blog before I forget some of the stuff that might be of interest. If I forget anything I'll put them in a series of edits at the end.
Not much has occurred but I shall list the following:
Had a job interview with London Empire Academy. From the name and the well kept website I envisioned a rather large glass building with a few classrooms, perhaps a library, small quad, you know, school stuff. What I found, (after rushing like a sweaty lunatic between streets trying to find the location) was a very small 2-3 level building with little in the way of windows or general beauty, sat squat in the middle of a car park just off the entrance to the M4 motorway. Alarm bells were already ringing as I circled the building hoping beyond hope that the rusty entrance door at the front was a poorly situated back door, hiding the fact that a lush glass automatic door complete with flowers and polished signs to boot were waiting for me round the back. They weren't.
That said the staff were fairly lovely. The secretary guy was nice and the billboard at the entrance showed some lovely class road trips and some generally smiling staff members. The interviewer lady who I believe was the deputy was pretty nice too, although it was hard to keep focused when the cars on the M4 were whooshing passed right behind her head. The position was for an Admin job, 9 - 6 for £7 an hour. Not bad, and there's a lot of responsibility that comes with the job including regularly ringing the Home Office to check for updates. The place wasn't pretty but it was certainly legit and pretty friendly. It's been a week since I went and I've had no response. My opinion of them will be significantly lowered if I get rejected without so much as a 'too bad' email but I'm still holding out for some luck.
Also, do you guys choose to ask questions in an interview? I have here-to-for been told by smart people that to do so is bad as it shows you haven't done enough research and you lack basic knowledge. However I got the impression here that a question or two would have provided some much needed banter. My "I've read all I need to know on the website" remark got a smile but I doubt I stood out in any way. We'll have to see won't we.
Also there has been a charity 5 a side football tournament which happened yesterday, all the proceeds going towards helping those hit by the Pakistan floods. As I expected being the outsider in the group of us that went, I got lumped with the older team that needed an extra player. Being that it was all for a good cause I went with the flow and had a lot of fun with the guys, they were pretty cool. By far the highlight was match 2 of 4 in which I scraped us a win. We were 2 - 0 down against the best team in our group who had brushed aside my mates team. Somehow I pulled a goal back from a loose ball up front. 2 - 1. A few minutes after I was tapped a ball from the left which I hoofed into the left side from a few metres away, 2 - 2, we were well pleased. Finally, in the dying seconds we were locked in a tense mid-pitch battle. I was slid the ball. At this point I was knackered from running laps of the pitch and the sweat was stinging my eyes but I tried to keep my focus. I saw a gap and shot from half way and managed to slip it in the left side hard. I went NUTS! As did the team. But I found myself shouting "COME ON!" a good 4 - 5 times in the rush. Looking back I must have appeared quite the loony. But you're only young once, and that was a game to remember. We ended up just missing out on qualifying but it was a superb tourny none the less.
Not much else to say currently except it was lovely ALIA GANT'S birthday this week. Broke and unable to secure a present to top my family guy series I sent her last year, I have opted to send her a card and promises that future birthdays and celebrations will be met with superior present giving as soon as I get some dosh. I will tell you about my card after she receives it. Sufficed to say I love it so. She deserves it, she keeps me sane sometimes and the fact that she puts up with me at all is praiseworthy indeed. Happy Birthday Alia.
Spanish and French are going well, I have my lovely Spanish teacher from last year back in the driving seat which is nice, and french is surviving which is a bonus. Getting fairly hard to separate the two now. Now that I'm getting job hunting under control I should be able to focus a lot more on them.
My wombats ticket and poster have arrived; can't wait til the 28th to see them. I also possibly am going to Thorpe Park on Saturday which will be awesome. Rides galore. Also a comedian act next Tuesday and then the little case of my Birthday in early November. I'm not joking, by little I mean little. I asked for an early birthday present to be my family paying for french/Spanish as I am broke. How life changes, not a decade ago I was working towards the dreaded GCSE's and wishing for Xmas break to get presents. Now I PAY for 2 GCSE courses with my Xmas credits and look FORWARD to getting more work for dosh. Crazy switcharoony.
Anyways not much to go on as I say. But in the next 2 - 3 weeks there shall inevitably be fun tales to tell you of. I already have my wombats promotional poster on the wall winking at me. Things are looking promising.
Till next time,
Toodles.
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