So NOW I´ve got a job :D

Let me update you a bit more about my job situation...and tell the good news! On Sunday I got a phone call from Oxygen, that is another clothing store at Market City. Since I hadn´t heard back from Giordano yet I did an hour-long trial there on Monday afternoon. The trial was fine until I heard they pay their employees only $5/hour + some bonuses if daily sales targets are exceeded. There´s no way I´d work anywhere with such low wages! Fortunately I got a call from Giordano later that day asking if I could start working on Tuesday. So I had my first shift there yesterday. It was all good :) My bosses Craig and Mel seem nice, and so do the other people working there. It´s quite many students working as casuals, just like me. It was a busy day; I vacuumed, helped to set clothes on tables, served customers and learned to use the computer system (not everything, but the most important things). Craig got us candy and timtams, which helped me to form a good first impression of him ;) I worked for 5hours before going to a lecture. I´m working again tomorrow and on Friday and Saturday. I´m happy to be working on a store whose clothes I like. The first time I shopped at Giordano was at the Singapore Airport, and I was even given discount so I could have these two tops I liked. I´ve also bought quite a few items from Giordano stores in Sydney. The clothes are good quality (you can actually wash them several times without ruining them), pretty classic design and within a good price range. I got a long-sleeve T-shirt for free to wear at work, and I think I´ll purchase some more tops, as well :) (We´re expected to wear Giordano tops at work. For bottoms we can go for anything we like.)

I guess that´s enough about my new job... I haven´t done much apart from that and studying, though. Today was our last Olympic Games lecture and we got our literature review presentation marks. The presentations took place last week and the week before, and were allowed to last only for 7min each. Unfortunately they only count 5% of the total subject grade, since I got a perfect score of 5/5. I also got nice feedback saying my powerpoint presentation was good (structure & photos) and that I´ve got a strong and positive presentation style :) It was nice to get a good grade for a chance, after screwing up on some other exams/assignments. So now I´m all done with Olympic Games (we don´t have final examination) and my total subject grade is around 75%. To be honest, the subject was more demanding and time consuming than I thought, but actually ended up being my favorite one! I hadn´t learned about the sports industry before, so I found it interesting. I also enjoyed going to the Kuring-Gai campus every Wednesday and coming back to Chinatown to have lunch with Keiji before my Finance tutorial and lecture. Today we ran into Carla outside the shuttle bus and she joined us for lunch at this food court. I ordered combination laksa (a kind of Chinese soup with noodles, meat, prawns, fishballs, chicken and everything: I could´t even regocnize half of what I was eating lol) which was delicious :P

Allright, I think this is enough about telling about everything and nothing... I´m just in the mood I could keep writing this nonsense for hours, but I guess I´d better go downstairs to have some dinner and watch House and Medium. So Adios!