Perfectly Busy

Aussie phrase of the day: spat the dummy = yelled, "He spat the dummy."

I must have so much energy to write lately because I am free! Free of the odious tasks of writing uni papers. Not so much free in terms of time, though. So what have I been doing since returning from my trip last weekend, since I have talked of little else since I have been back. Besides uploading photos and blogging every night, I'm actually quite busy with work. Everyone seems to be really interested in my job, so I will try to elaborate. I work about 20 hours a week (the max I am allowed on my student visa) over a period of three days as a receptionist at Ford & Doonan Air Conditioning, a fairly large company with various branches around Perth. I work in the back office of a showroom with several cheery salesmen. The showroom consists of several models of ducted air conditioning systems. The air-cons in Australia are a little different to those we have at home. The don't just have a large box with a fan outside their houses, but they also consist of a wall-mounted unit inside the house as well. At this point it all gets a little complicated to explain why there is an indoor unit as well as the outdoor unit, but it has something to do with recycling of air. The job is pretty unglamorous and consists mainly of clerical duties such as answering and directing phone calls, collecting and sorting the mail, ordering office supplies, and entering data.


As mundane as it sounds, I actually really enjoy what I am doing and the people I work with. Maybe it's merely the fact that I am making money and it feels good to know that I am going to be able to stave off my mounting debts, but I look forward to going to work and I always feel good when I am there. Every time I go in it is busier than the time before and the spirits are high among my colleagues. There's a happy comraderie that I miss from the early days at Baby Banz. I am perfectly busy.



I am also beginning to pack up my room. It's only two weeks until I am home! I can't believe how fast these few months have gone. This weekend I went to the beach and got my first sunburn, but only a little here and there and on my eyelids. Never in my life have I gotten sunburned on my eyelids! It's been around 100 degrees the last few days and I'm trying to get by without a fan until I get back in January. I don't know how I'm going to bear this kind of heat for the next few months! I hope the next place I live has an A/C! I'm going to be really happy to get back to some cooler weather.