Miss Bad Penny is living a penny-ante and penny-pinching life in the Netherlands

It's about time

It has been a loooooooooooong time since I last blogged. Life has been okay - working Monday through Friday and bumming around during weekend. How's my "new" job?? I still feel happy (and not cranky) to wake up at 6.35am to go to work everyday, how's that?? I have been working for bit more than 7 weeks now and there's always something fun to look forward to at work.

First 2 weeks: Tried to remember everyone's name
(fun part: I kept forgetting and mixing up people's names, what's new?? I asked my coworkers to keep introducing themselves whenever they bumped into me until I could shout out their names once I see them. It took me 2 weeks to remember all the 50 people in our department and more than 20 in departments that I work closely with, not too bad eh??)

3rd week: HOLIDAY!!
(The greatest advantage of working in a school - loads of holiday!! But I was actually dying to go to work throughout the week.)

4th week: Had a bunch of appointments with new parents and students
(After I had been trained for weeks, I started interviewing new families. It was great fun because I gotta know more about the students and to communicate more with teachers in order to place the students in different classes.)

5th week: The due date of my first assignment to the teachers
(I needed to collect work from more than 40 teachers and many of them handed in their work last minute or late so this week was hectic.)

6th week: Was given several new assignments
(I needed to touch base with people from other departments, so more name-remembering activities. And more meetings...that made the week fly by.)

7th week: Loads of ad hoc projects
(I was tested on the strong multitasking skills mentioned on my CV. Every day was super hectic and I LOVED IT. Yes, weird me!!)

Coming week: 3 working days only
(Ascension Day/long weekend. Meetings lined up for the 3 days already, so the week gonna fly!!)

In case you still don't get it, I LOVE MY JOB!!!

Okay, enough of my job. One of the highlights of May was my man's birthday two weeks ago. We went to an Indian musical extravaganza - Bharati - that Friday. There were a little live band playing traditional Indian instruments, 6 live singers singing some famous Indian songs while making some gestures accordingly, a narrator guiding the audience through the tale, and last but not the least, LOADS of dancers in colorful costumes. I loved loved loved those traditional Indian costumes and the Indian dances. The combination of Indian dance and swaying long dress made me wanna dig out my exotic long dress and belly dance again...

Oh yay, my man is finally awake now so I'd better go start another lazy weekend with a big breakfast!! Plan for this weekend?? I planned to finish painting the window frame and to start painting the balcony but gotta postpone as it's POURING today!! "Maybe" playing some squash, then definitely doing grocery shopping, then...maybe a stay-in movie weekend??

By the way, I've been having houseplants since I started working. Ain't they blooming beautifully?? Does any one know the name of that blue "flower ball" plant??

posted by Miss Bad Penny at 10:09