I interviewed for another job a few days ago but have not heard back from them yet. I am assuming I did not get it. It was a temporary job until the end of the year, working only two days a week but if I had gotten it, I could work three guaranteed days for the rest of the year and then do one off's like this one on the other days if needed. It would have been a good deal, although it is working for 8 hours a day and I am not sure I am ready to do that anymore. Too much work being onsite for that long. I like the fact that I move around and do other jobs, although I hate the driving everywhere so it was good and bad. But since I have not heard from them, I am assuming the worst.
Looks like I am not going to get all this done today. Might leave it and come back to it tomorrow. I was going to try to finish and then do another entry tomorrow but this thing is just about to end now and I do not want to be here for another hour just doing this. Maybe I will go get some lunch and do it there or maybe I will just leave it until tomorrow. We are going to have to see. Either way, I am leaving it now and it just finished. Really, really strange that it ran that fast but it is complete so nothing else to do.
I am still typing even though I said I was leaving. I am hoping I do not have a lot to say and can finish this entry today. I am going to talk about Maeghan and her school and while I think there is a lot to say, maybe there isn't. She is back at school and that's about it. Nothing more to say. Doesn't seem like a lot. I suppose I can start making things up and adding them. Who will ever know. Certainly not the vast audience that reads this on a daily basis. Or all those people who don't actually read it. I am not sure which number is bigger. I think I had a view last month, so the audience is growing.
Maeghan was going to go to school in Caboolture this year. She signed up and paid for the class so she was all set to go. She had to go up there for orientation and to test how long it takes her to get there. I think she did that on a Thursday or something and the class was supposed to start the next Tuesday, so not a lot of time before she was starting.
When she got there, she could not find anyone to meet with. The story she tells is that someone, her old teacher, saw her wandering around and asked if she was there for orientation. She said yes and the lady took her to some room. No one was in there either. She waited for about 15 minutes and then someone came in and asked her what class she was there for. She told them Child Development or something, whatever it is she is taking, and they said they would get someone to come and talk to her.
Another 15 minutes and then her old teacher and someone else came in to tell her the class she was registered for, and had paid for, did not have enough students to have the class. In fact, she was the only one registered for it. They said they needed at least 15 people to hold the class. This class is the one that gets her her diploma. After this class, she has a degree in Child Studies or whatever it is. I should probably know that. They told her there were several campuses where the class was being offered but none of them had enough to continue either. In the end, they offered to let her go to the class in Southbank, where she has always gone. That class had enough people in it. She said yes. Secretly, that is where she wanted to go anyway so it was not that bad a deal.
I am going to have to finish this later. These people want to go to lunch and they are waiting for me to leave. This being a bank, I am not allowed to be here on my own. Not sure why as this is the headquarters and not an actual bank but I can't be here on my own, so I have to leave. I will get back to this later. At the very least, I have to put in the closing lines but there is more to the Maeghan story so I will need to make time for that.
Going now.
Ok, I am now at Guzman and Gomez, or as I like to say, Guzzy Guzman. Having lunch, typing with one hand, hoping not to spill my burrito on my computer. Not the best but I usually go to McD at the train station and I did not really want to do that today. An average burrito, two average tacos, and water to drink. Not that you can get much better, I am in Austria where they think bolognaise sauce can substitute for taco meat, so I get what I can. Now that I think about it, we might have tacos for dinner tonight. Not sure if I have the stuff and I definitely do not have the lettuce so maybe not. I don't have the lettuce because lettuce is scarce these days. KFC and Hungry Jacks no longer server it as it is too expensive. KFC puts coleslaw on theirs and I am not sure what Hungry Jacks does. It is around $9 a head these days. They say due to the flooding that wiped out the crop but you never know. It could be they just want to raise the price from $3 a head to $7 a head and we will all be relieved when it comes down to that, forgetting that it used to be $2 at some places. But who am I to conjecture on that. Let's get back to the typing.
I am using two hands now, finished my burrito, so I can type a lot faster. Only spilled one bean and it landed on my shirt, so we are all good. I am hoping it does not start pouring down rain in the next few minutes, it has been off and on today, because I have to walk back to the train station. And since they already had a box to pack the computer in, I have to carry my packing box and packing material back with me on the train, so I cannot open my umbrella on the way. It's raining now, so I will type slower and hope it stops.
So Maeghan is back to Southbank this year, and this class lasts for a whole year. Most of the classes are just 4 to 6 months but this one is the final class so it goes longer. There are enough people in the class so they have to split into two groups. Not sure what that means but she is in group A and the other group is group B. Strange thing about this class is that she is only one of two Australians in the class. Maeghan says all the others are from other places, like India, Pakistan, France and several other places. I have no idea why. And most of them are much older than she is, although there are a couple her age but I don't think she has spoken to them yet.
As I said, this class gets her a diploma. She can then take another class that will last two years and gets her a degree in whatever it is she is taking. I thought that is what a diploma is but she says no. Maybe the other class gets her the equivalent of a Masters or something. At some point, I probably need to find out but for now, once she completes this, she can teach classes for the kids or teach classes in what she is doing or lots of other things. So it is a very good thing. Probably going to be hard, but she can do it. Nothing has been hard for her.
She also tells me that the last six months or so of the class is actually working in a Child care facility. She has to find it and apply but then she will assignments that she has to do, like take care of a class for a week with no one else to help, teach the kids something in a classroom environment, do all the paperwork for something, lots of things she will have assignments to do. It is all up to her to get them all done and what order she will do them. Whatever facility she finds, they will have to agree to it. She is going to try to find one close to us or one that has a bus stop near it. The one she worked at before does not have any way for her to get there. The nearest bus stop is too far away. She also tells me that she might have trouble finding a place as some of them do not allow people in wheelchairs to work there. I have no idea why and that seems discriminatory to me. We will have to see what happens when she starts looking, which I think she should be doing now. Biggest problem I have with it is she will not be paid, or they are not required to pay her. She says they might offer her a job and she can do her school work at the same time but I know nothing about if that will work or not or how they coordinate that. It is going to be an adventure.
I think there is more to say and there is more on William but sitting here is not comfortable and I cannot type anymore. So I am going to end this entry now. I think there is enough here to be satisfactory. I will be making another entry tomorrow to that is a good thing.
So until next time,
Later
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