So tireddd

Thursday- It was tough to come back to work from Holiday, but it was nice to know that there was only two more days left. I got up early, and headed to work, in which I was the first to arrive. I checked my e-mails, and procrastinated a little to catch up from life back home, before anyone showed up at work. Once we Meegan arrived, we headed around town to pick up all of the charity buckets we had displaced for the Queensland Flood Victims. I picked the wrong day to where jeans, because I was dripping sweat through my jeans because of the heat at 9:30am. Womp. After grabbing all the buckets I headed back to the office to work on the EBAY auction package that we will be putting live on Monday or Tuesday of next week. We’ve created a $10,000 ‘Manly Experience’ package of gift vouchers, shopping, food, surfing lessons and more. Once we go live, I encourage everyone to bid, because after all it would be quite nice to get to Australia for gifts worth $10,000.  After I started the incentives and explaining what we are trying to do for the EBay auction, I had to type up a letter encouraging council men to send reviews of the Surfing Festival for the grant application I am working on. It’s nice to get positive feedback from my boss, when she does a quick edit of my memo skills, and gives notes in her e-mails that the language is quite good. J! After work, I caught my usually 5:25 ferry back home. It was definitely a slow walk, as my feet were at it’s peak of exhaustion and of the heat. I must add in a quick blurb that everyone is Sydney and Manly are loving my sister, Chelsea’s [Red-I] line. I have numerous people staring, nodding, and acknowledging my necklaces that I have been given from Christmas and her wedding. Let’s see if you can take Australia by storm with [Red-I]!!!!!!

Once I got back from work, I came back to a sleeping beauty on the couch—my roommate. I hung out and watched the news until we had a Global Experience get-together with our ‘host Mom’ Margaux. Every few weeks Global Experience gets together for treats or excursions courtesy of the agency. Last night we met up at one of the oldest bars at the Rocks, which is located right beside the Opera house. We had small snacks, and chats about work and what we’ve been up to. It was a nice girls night. It was past 10, and we were all exhausted so we headed back to the flat. Our host Mom thought we were going out, but little does she know we are working non-paid slaves. Lol just kidding…well sorta;-).

Friday- Today was Friday, and I got to work feeling a bit out of it. Mel is coming down with a cold, and I fear I might be catching wind of it as well. I got to work, and I settled in with my normal green tea and e-mails. I finally got a response back from an old academic advisor, which I have lost touch with over the year. I got to hear a little bit of how he’s doing in the South, as well as be asked a million questions about the hell I decided to come all the way to Australia. Lol. Little does he know that there were quite a few reasons!

Anyways, work today was pretty good. Meegan, asked me to put all the press clippings of the Manly Festival of Surfing into a Portfolio book. So for a few hours I was cutting and putting together all the press clips, and positioning them in the portfolio. I actually really enjoyed that. I was stopped briefly to run an errand, in which I ran to grab a quick lunch. Once I got back to the office, I had to put down my lunch, and go to a an APP meeting. Manly/Meegan is looking to design an app for a smartphone of a directory to Manly. We went through it with this IT guy who creates apps and products, which was really interesting. After the meeting, Meegan was telling me had another one in that I needed to speak up more and not be so quiet. Well, if anyone knows me I’m not very quiet. I get reserved when I go in on things blindly. The two meetings we had today I had no idea about, or what we were discussing. I had to go and hold the first meeting for five minutes, because Meegan had to do something in Council before we met. So I went in blindly, not realizing what we were meeting about, and he was asking me all these questions. I told him I was the intern and only been for two weeks. Yet, he still carried on with things I had no idea about. I held it together and made conversation—but it’s definitely a pet peeve of mine when I’m doing things that I have no idea about…..if that makes sense. Anyways, we were meeting with one of the business owners that it well liked, and has a lot of restaurants in NSW.  We went to Manly Pavilion which is an up-scale restaurant off of the Manly Cove. Now, Meegan dressed really cute vintage, and I dressed really cute vintage punk. Manly Pavilion is a really nice, and I’m dressed in a vest, linen pants and a bandana in my hair. I didn’t feel comfortable when it was all suits, and four forks lay out in front of me. I didn’t feel the part, nor want to be there when again I didn’t know what anything they were talking about. Still, I enjoyed the conversation and learned a lot about the restaurant business. I excused myself from the two bottle of wines, appetizer, and $50 meal to head back to the office after the meeting last a bit over 2 hours, and still going. Prior to the meeting, Meegan said I could leave early as these meetings run over. During the meeting I saw her keep looking over at me, as I took a hint that sometimes not everything is for my ears. I collected my things from the office, and headed to get an early ferry. I caught the 4:45 back and started to write this blog post on the ferry. So here I am finishing up at the flat, waiting for the roomie to get home. I’m exhausted and tired of spending money….this might be a night in. Hmmm…..z