Several exciting things have happened in my life lately. Due to a [painful] lack of internet access I've been unable to inform the blogosphere of these exciting developments. But fear no more, I am alive and well. Very well, in fact, and this is why:
1. I've moved into a house in Victoria Park, which is 10 minutes from university, a 5 minute walk from the river foreshore opposite Perth city centre (fantastic view), directly across from a gigantic park which has men in white playing cricket* on it all day every Sat and Sunday, and a 10 minute walk from an enormous cafe strip famous for its cheap asian food. I'm a happy camper.
*The cricket, apart from reminding me constantly that I am not in the United States, causes Rob to wake up on weekends at 7:30am and then shake me awake wake to tell me, excitedly and very wide-awake-ly, that the sound of cricket bats hitting cricket balls is coming through our bedroom window and it's time for a new day.
2. I'm employed for the full 20 hours allowable on my visa. I'm working for Careers@Curtin, which is the careers office at my university. My job requires me to help organize and advertise employer seminars on campus where big companies send their execs to come talk to Curtin students about why they should work for their big company* after graduation. It means lots of poster hanging, event managing, coordinating employer demands, and baby-sitting men in suits while they are on campus. Not soooo different from PR, really. It's a good job, it pays well, and I can run straight to class at the end of the day.
*Big companies in Perth means resource companies. Mining companies, Petroleum engineering companies, Western Power, Water Corporation, and engineering firms. My hopes for finding a job with a PR consultancy that represents companies other than those that deal in rocks, gas, petrol, water, or electricity are diminishing. I say "consumer and enterprise tech" and people say "what? like mining and surveying technology?"
3. Classes are kicking my butt and I'm enjoying it immensely. Most everyone has prior work experience. And many are working full time while studying. Curtin is 42% international students so most of my class are half international. International = Asian. Class discussions are fantastic, and I'm doing group projects with students from China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and the occasional European. I'm the only American [not just American, the only North American] in my entire program. And I love it. I had some minor wavering as to whether a masters in marketing might be more beneficial in the long run but I'm steering back towards PR now that I'm writing supply and demand, export/import, foreign investment papers. Blech.
As you can see, life is going well. The only complaint- my house has no internet. Which is why my blog has been drastically deprived of attention lately. Soon that will change, as I'm on the case and my life without internet hardly functions properly. I'm a complete addict and proud of it.
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