One Day of Work

I've been putting off writing all week bc I kept telling myself I'd just write on Sunday for the whole week. Well, today pretty much came and went without any time to write. So I don't get to write all my highlights. However, I did want to write about one:

Last Monday I was in the BUNAC office looking at the wall posts for jobs, and I saw one for a one-day event. Fulbright (the scholarship people) were hosting a US College Day where about 90 US universities come and set up a table while the UK students wanting to study in the US come and check out what's available. Bama wasn't there... I checked. But they just needed a few extra hands for the day. So I e-mailed the lady in charge and said I'd love to help out. Made 54 pounds out of it! So that's about half a week's rent I earned right there. :) Hey, it's better than nothing!! It was all in a hotel, and all I had to do was help set things up and take down later, as well as just general helping during the whole thing. I stood outside in the courtyard directing people who looked lost, and I helped the speakers who gave a lecture every 30 minutes set up their PowerPoint and helped with crowd control. It was easy money, and the people were really nice. I networked the heck out of everyone but didn't really have any luck. Oh well. At least I made 54 pounds and met a new circle of friends. Most of them were American even. Afterwards we went to the Fulbright House and ate snacks and drank wine as we just chilled and chatted.

I guess I'll keep going a little bit further. That evening was a baptism for a Russian girl that I went to. Got to chat a little bit with her. Found out this evening that the bishopric was actually looking for Russian speakers to help her out. I'll have to let them know. There is a guy here from either Russia or Ukraine. I didn't really understand which he said. He loves to talk to me in Russian, and it's nice for me to be able to practice again. He did serve his mission in Ukraine but finished before I got there. It was fun when the 3 of us got to chat bc it was pretty much half in Russian, half in English, and I don't think that phased any of us. I think she prefers to speak English, but she's still at the stage where she's struggling with it.

So I came home pretty exhausted from that day!!

Job searching is still going and hadn't really been fruitful, but the people in the ward are just extremely helpful! It's surprised me how much they've gone out of their way to help me. One girl passed on my CV to her brother, and also came to me today with the name and phone number of a missionary couple in the area who are employment advisors or something like that. I didn't even know those existed! But she made it a point to write it down so she could pass it to me. Another girl doing the same thing as me gave me the business cards of a couple temp agency agents and told me to try calling them and mentioning that I know her. So that's my plan for tomorrow morning. So I haven't found great success yet, but I've really been supported!

And I'm having way too much fun with the YSA in the ward. There's so many that I keep meeting more and more every activity. And there's always something going on. There's a house near my hostel with 7 really social YSA in it that we usually congregate to. It's the party house. So loneliness has definitely NOT been an issue for me.

Alright, I'm seriously late for bed. Good night. And ROLL TIDE!!!