Sydney Day 2: Electric Boogaloo
So I wake up extra early in the morning at around 7am due to some construction going on in the building, now I know why my room was so cheap. Anyway, I try to go back to sleep but never really manage it, I get out of bed just before 8am and I feel really really nervous and sick, like I am going to another graduate testing centre or something.
I get in the shower and try and calm myself down, I get out still feeling the same so I have a cup of tea in an effort to wake myself up/calm myself down (dunno how that is suppose to work) and also because I know it is the only thing i'll stomach at the moment. I get dressed, pack up and watch the BBC News all at once (man I love 24/7 news channels). I go downstairs to check out of the room and dump my crap in one of their storage rooms, I walk outside and it is overcast, sunny and hot and humid all at the same time, I think some bush fire had happened the night before or they just had some killer smog this morning, i end up taking it easy walking up the road to where I had to be for my graduate thingy walking behind these people all the way who end up to my surprise going to the same thing I am. I get to the foyer of the building and sign for my little name tag thing and get told to proceed to a floor way up in the building. I go past the security doors which are like train staton turnstile/barrier thingos but have plastic windows that move sort of like windscreen wipers, I thought they were cool. I get in the elevator with the people I must have look like I was stalking, they look at me all shifty like, they other workers in the elevator are in casual clothes because it is Friday, I suddenly feel overdressed and like a kids who is going to school for the first day and has all shiny new clothes or something.
I get out of the elevator and routed into this beautiful room with food and breakfasty type things everywhere, I want to eat but for some reason I am drawn immediately to the balcony outside where a majority of the graduates are all mingling. The view is stunning, even with the smog/bushfire this building has some of the best views running south to west of the city over darling harbour. I start looking around for the other sole grad that is suppose to be starting in my division with me, my division has the smallest intake of grads (2) in the entire corporation, which is followed closely by the legal department with 3, most other departments have at least 20 to 30+. Some people jump out of the crowd and remember me from one of the graduate assessment centres, they then acost me for my story about how I got to be in department "A" when I was at the assessment centre for department "B", they listen and are shocked that I was offered two positions and was allowed to choose between the two, I felt very lucky and also a bit embarassed telling the story. One of the guys was telling me his story about how he really wanted to get into the division I was in (we'll call that "A") but didn't and then got offered a job in the other division ("B"), I later found out that day from my manager that he got offered that divison ("B") in the end only because I chose not to take the B offer and took A. I felt embarassed again but also happy that my choice directly helped a person I knew get a job he really wanted! Huzzah!
Ok later I'll continue this story....
I get in the shower and try and calm myself down, I get out still feeling the same so I have a cup of tea in an effort to wake myself up/calm myself down (dunno how that is suppose to work) and also because I know it is the only thing i'll stomach at the moment. I get dressed, pack up and watch the BBC News all at once (man I love 24/7 news channels). I go downstairs to check out of the room and dump my crap in one of their storage rooms, I walk outside and it is overcast, sunny and hot and humid all at the same time, I think some bush fire had happened the night before or they just had some killer smog this morning, i end up taking it easy walking up the road to where I had to be for my graduate thingy walking behind these people all the way who end up to my surprise going to the same thing I am. I get to the foyer of the building and sign for my little name tag thing and get told to proceed to a floor way up in the building. I go past the security doors which are like train staton turnstile/barrier thingos but have plastic windows that move sort of like windscreen wipers, I thought they were cool. I get in the elevator with the people I must have look like I was stalking, they look at me all shifty like, they other workers in the elevator are in casual clothes because it is Friday, I suddenly feel overdressed and like a kids who is going to school for the first day and has all shiny new clothes or something.
I get out of the elevator and routed into this beautiful room with food and breakfasty type things everywhere, I want to eat but for some reason I am drawn immediately to the balcony outside where a majority of the graduates are all mingling. The view is stunning, even with the smog/bushfire this building has some of the best views running south to west of the city over darling harbour. I start looking around for the other sole grad that is suppose to be starting in my division with me, my division has the smallest intake of grads (2) in the entire corporation, which is followed closely by the legal department with 3, most other departments have at least 20 to 30+. Some people jump out of the crowd and remember me from one of the graduate assessment centres, they then acost me for my story about how I got to be in department "A" when I was at the assessment centre for department "B", they listen and are shocked that I was offered two positions and was allowed to choose between the two, I felt very lucky and also a bit embarassed telling the story. One of the guys was telling me his story about how he really wanted to get into the division I was in (we'll call that "A") but didn't and then got offered a job in the other division ("B"), I later found out that day from my manager that he got offered that divison ("B") in the end only because I chose not to take the B offer and took A. I felt embarassed again but also happy that my choice directly helped a person I knew get a job he really wanted! Huzzah!
Ok later I'll continue this story....
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