Important News!!!!

Dear Yaso,

Well. Thank you for your lovely letter. I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will speak to your points in a second letter, in which I'll tell you about what's going on with my life generally since I've been back.

I just wanted to share this with you. And I haven't shared it with anyone except my parents!! I've been waiting to tell you so I can post it online. Cuz, you know, I'm so into celebrating myself and how awesome I am and everything. lol.. (for everyone else: that was sarcasm).

So remember I went in for the interview last week at National Union of Students (Scotland). And I told you I didn't get the job on Monday (Jan 16). Then, I told you I wrote back for feedback and was waiting on the feedback. The girl who interviewed me wrote back that night and told me to call her the next day. So, I called her the next day in the morning (Jan 17). She was going to go over the feedback from my interview but asked me if I would be interested in an internship type position for 3 months with possibility of extension. We talked about what kind of job it would be and she asked me if I could come in in an hour.

So we hung up, I told Mike I have to leave asap. I ate breakfast and got dressed quickly (and STILL looked good lol) and left.

I met with the interview girl and she told me A LOT of good information. I took notes. I felt VERY encouraged. We can chat about this in detail if you want lol. I'll get to the point.

Then I met another member of staff to talk about the internship position. We talked about it. We hit it off. And she told me to let her know by today.

I emailed her last night telling her I would take the job.
She told me to come in Monday at 10am.

And that's when I start my new job!!!!

Position: International Education Assistant
Hours: 36/week
Wage: £6.08/hr

Not the best wage... but it's something. I'll take it. Cuz it's an ideal position.
I get to work on policy, student engagement, event organising, admin work, and many other things.
I even have possibilities of travel to other countries. There's a training event in Brussels that I can partake in if I wanted to.

Plus there's a possibility of extension and I can build my network! They really like me there and are impressed with my CV :D They're gonna do everything to support me and develop my skills as needed.

I'm SOOO excited and SOOOO happpyy!!!!

Persistence works!!

I cant believe I was crying one day cuz of this and out of frustration and the next day everything changed!!!

I have a job!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Now, I got so used to applications for jobs that it's weird not having to do any for a while.

:) :) :) :)

- Kris