I know I’ve been slack on blogging nowadays, but truth be told I haven’t booted up the laptop in days. I’ve been rather busy sorting out uni, readings, work schedules, doing more readings and working quite a fair bit lately. So I guess don’t expect as many updates as before, more like once a week cause I’m not home 4 nights of the week anyway.
I can’t help but feel my age these few days. I’ve been running around, going to uni, doing chores, working and studying for the past week and time seems to have flown by. I know I’m only 21 but I’ve just realised I don’t think I can step out of the house without wearing at least a bit of makeup just cause I look so pale, withered and have eyebags and dark rings around my eyes due to the lack of sun exposure and rest lately. And to top that off I feel old just cause I’ve started to wear stockings. Yes, stockings.
True, that stockings have made a come back in the fashion world and everything, but I’ve also realised that the clothes I wear are also starting to take on a more ‘matured’ feel. Like today for instance, I wore a black skivvy, grey wool smock dress and a grey grandpa cardigan with a pair of black stockings and black flats. I suppose I felt more grown up than usual just cause they actually felt like work clothes. Hard to explain but that’s what I felt like 
Grabbed dinner at Macca’s cause I wanted to try the new name it burger and there was this minor kefuffle at the counter. See, it was peak hour and there was a really long line. As in singular, ONE line. There were like 4 other people in front of me and we ended up waiting for like 15 mins cause the place was understaffed.
There were 4 registers, but ONE line so people just went to whichever register was manned when they gave their order. Suddenly out of nowhere, this old lady came and stood behind a guy at the cash register, unaware that people behind her have been waiting for at least 15 mins. Then when the guy in front of her was served, she was about to give her order to the guy when the guy behind her came up to her and told her that she had jumped the queue.
The both of them began to have a minor argument but in the end the lady gave up and went behind the long queue and said, “Are you happy now, mate?” to the guy she jumped in front. I ended up waiting for another 5 mins to be served and all the while, I could hear her complaining to some random guy behind her that “the registers were free, so I just queued up behind him and that guy told me to get back, that is some @$#%ing guy, getting his #$%^ing ice cream”.
I was so close to going up to her and saying, “hey look missy, we have been standing here for the past 20 mins in ONE LONG line and when someone just jumps a queue like that, everyone behind isn’t going to like it. I can see why you thought that there were 4 lines, but when that guy told you that there was ONE line, the least you could do was apologise and get back into the queue. I know we’re all hungry and wanting service, but doing that isn’t going to please anybody here”. But then, I didn’t cause I just wasn’t up to confronting a person today and I’m tired from running around all day at uni and just tired from running around all week in total.
Recently there has been a job opening in Nedlands to look after a person, and I’m seriously contemplating taking it. The e-mail doesn’t specifically detail any job demands, so I’ll ring the lady tomorrow to find out what the job entails and stuff like that. Have to sort out my work timetable and organise a better arrangement, cause I’ve been working 4 days this week and its really getting to me. Pray that I can get this job cause its so close to home and the experience will be wonderful and will really come in handy for pracs next year.
Speaking of pracs, the OT Abroad program for next year sounds really really interesting but the cheapest program will be in India for AUD$3900 and the most expensive, yet more attractive one is the 7 week placement in the Ukraine for roughly AUD$5000 which includes a stopover in Europe and a 1-2 week holiday somewhere in Europe after the placement. I’m interested in the China one which works mainly with kids and the Ukraine one which is the kids with HIV placement as well. The South Africa one is about setting up the OT department and that seems like a really good one to experience as well.. But seeing that the minimum cost is roughly $4000 including food, flights, expenses and accommodation, I doubt I’ll be doing those pracs. I’ll most likely stay in Perth and do all 1200 hours in settings around Perth.
We’ve got quite a few assignments this semester, with a few that involve site visits and locating a person in the community with a neurological disability that we have to interview a few times and document findings in a report. I’m kinda of dreading those assignments cause I have to figure out how to get to the aforementioned places for site visits and interviews and not to mention trying to fit everything around everyone’s timetables. I’ve got a test next week which I should definitely get started studying for soon.
Had our 1st ‘group’ facilitation thing yesterday where Emma and Jess co-facilitated a group for a piece of assessment for group counselling. It was definitely one of the more interesting and fun-filled pieces of assessments this semester. I was one of the 10 people in there as consumers of that particular group. I played me aka Margaret or Marge for short whose daughter had just gotten married to a US navy guy and moved to Illinois. The group was for independent older adults with depression, redesigning lifestyle. We had quite a lot of fun pretending to have different clients and taking on male roles and passing the teddy bear as a part of group therapy. I’m kinda looking forward to running my group in week 12 now 
Oh, just a reminder to anyone who has managed to read this far without hitting the close button on the screen, I’m working Friday, Saturday, Sunday this week and Monday next week so I won’t be home till Tuesday evening after classes finish at 4pm. Next week I’ll be working Saturday, Sunday and Monday but I’m not sure if I’ll be home on Saturday or if I’m going to cell on Friday or church on Sunday due to the amount of work that is lying on my table for me to get done. Already I’ve got something like 100 odd pages to read by next week and I have to catch up on those or else everything is going to accumulate and spiral out of control.
As you can probably tell by now I’m up to my ears in work and every second is so precious to me that I’m grabbing it with both my hands. And you can safely say that I’m going to bury myself in work and not dig myself out of it till summer hits. Whoever said the course gets easier as time goes by has got to be joking themselves.
That’s all from me now. I just spent and hour writing this cause I needed to get things off my chest.
Oh, and JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IS COMING TO PERTH AND I CAN’T GO!
