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October 02, 2005
Wake me up, when September ends...
As you can gather from the horrendus post title, not *that* much has happened recently.
I'm currently in the process of buying a laptop, a few issues with the Visa card, but hopefully a phone call on Monday can sort those. Its rather odd dealing with businesses in a country so big, due to the time zones involved the company on the east coast, me on the west, they are open from 5am-2pm local time to me :) - adds a layer of complication :s
Had my first job interview yesterday. It was with "Intrawest" - the big corporation who own most of the mountain operations here. It was only "stage 1" (general behavioural check) but I passed, and so I must ring back tomorrow and organise my next interview. There are only two or three stages so I may have employment rather soon.
Things are made a little complicated in that (a) I've been put down for a job that I didn't apply for and (b) its the same job Ben and Sophie have applied for :s
"Guest Relations Host" is the job in question, its a fancy way of saying "customer service bloke", who answers all questions people have about any aspect of the holiday. I wanted to be the "Ski Pass Admin assistant", but we'll see what happens.
Finally a few more observations from Canada - more things which make you realise the UK is actually quite a nice place to live.
1 - The Post Office / Post being delivered to your door.
Over here (if your lucky) you get a mail box at the entrance to your estate. If your not lucky you must hire a box in the post office for 5GBP a month and collect your post from there.
2 - Bank Account / Free use and interest
Over here you are charged to use your account - either a monthly fee of about 3GBP or about 25 pence for ANY withdrawl from your account (that includes cash machines and using it in a store).
Also interests rates don't exist. 0% on anything under $10'000, and about 0.1% on anythin over that. "Savings accounts" have an APR of about 1.5%. Laaaaame :)
3 - Supermarkets don't sell alcohol
3b - Off-Licences don't open on a Sunday. So no chance of getting some beer for your sunday evening meal.. grrrrr :o(
4 - No Decent Bacon or Cheap Cheese, says it all really
Anyway, I don't want to make it sound like I'm hope sick, because snow is forecast for next week !
Good to hear freshers week went ok for those people in Nottingham
Posted by edwardnorthridge at October 2, 2005 08:38 PM