Cafe Style Interview

Pre-interview:
2:18pm - Interview soon, a bit nervous. Thank goodness its a relaxed interview. What questions will I be asked? and how on earth am I going to answer them?

Post-interview:
3:30pm - Oh, well that wasn't so bad, it was actually quite nice.

4:45pm - I had my interview today (Wednesday) with a couple of really nice women. It was really relaxed and I felt really comfortable. We talked about things like culture differences, stress, family, study and a few other things. I truly feel that I answered the questions the best that I could.

Now that the interview is done I am really hoping things can continue to progress.

Interview time

Pre-interview: Today (Monday) I got a call from one of Au Pair Link's Wellington personnel to arrange a time for me to have my interview :) and I am so happy that it is this week, Wednesday to be exact.

Thankfully we are meeting in a little cafe. I'm one of those people who does better in a relaxed situation than in a very formal one.

Honestly I can't wait to have my interview so that I can (hopefully) enter the 'matching pool'.

The Big Clean Up

Ok, so in my application I put down that the earliest that I could fly into America is June 4th 2012 and I know that gives me plenty of time to do things but.....

Guess what I have been doing for the past two days.....? Cleaning, sorting and binning.

I have gone through almost every item in my bedroom and put each thing into one of four piles: keep and take with me, keep and store, not keep/sell and rubbish.

The keep and take pile consists of clothes, shoes, toiletries and books of various kinds. Naturally it is the smallest pile.

Next comes the keep and store pile. Now neatly arranged into boxes, there are currently four boxes and two sports bags of things to be stored, probably at one of my parents houses..... shhhh ;D

More than half of my stuff is currently sitting in boxes and bags and has been given the label of NOT KEEPING! It's sad to see so much of my stuff going but I realised that I don't really need it.

And last is the rubbish pile, sitting by my door waiting for me to take it to the landfill, which will probably be tomorrow... Surprisingly it is actually the biggest of the four piles :O

I know that its ages until I should even be thinking about this but I think that this is a good thing to get out of the way because it means that I don't have to think about it later on and have it stress me out. It also makes it easy for me to move in the mean time (if I have to....).

I am glad I have managed to get this done before the weekend... :)

Almost Finished!

So this week has been a quiet one for me due to having surgery on Tuesday and having to rest since then. I'm not allowed to work for the next six (6) weeks so that gives me heaps of time to complete my application.

I have just scanned almost all of the documents I need onto the computer and I have just realised that I only have two forms left to scan and then I've got all the forms done.

I am just waiting on my second childcare reference and the medical form, and I need a couple more photos and then its all done.

I can't believe that I have almost finished my application already!

Application Changes

Ok so as I said I have paperwork that we want to have completed by the end of March. I started filling in the form that was used for the application to be an Au Pair in the USA and I was almost finished when I got an email from Au Pair Link saying that their USA Partner agency has just introduced an online application this week and that I have to fill it out there.

So I clicked the link and it took me to the online application and asked me to login/set a password so I can save my work. I did all that and then got on with answering the questions and ticking any boxes that I needed to.

I have completed Part 1 of the application and most of Part 2. Currently I am stuck on the photos section. I have clicked the upload new photos link and it says click the browse button and select media. Ummm.... what browse button??? Its not there and I really would like to start uploading some of my photos.

I have some really cool pictures that I want to use but the online application just wont let me. GRRR...

So for now I'll just put a couple up here..

This is me and my cousins baby in 2008

This is me and my nephew Nikora-Sharne in 2011

And this is me and my nephew Nikora-Sharne when he was newborn

So there we are.

A New Choice

Unemployment sucks!

We all know that having a job is a very important part of growing up. Well I have been struggling in the job department and I started thinking that I needed to look at a few more options.

I have wanted to be an actor for many years now and here in New Zealand I know that the industry just isn't large enough, I've worked in Hospitality and Customer Service but I don't feel like that is my true calling.

Over the past couple of years I have done quite a lot of babysitting and one of my friends mentioned that I should try making a career out of it.

So I started Google searching full time babysitting jobs and one of the results was a website called Au Pair Link. I checked it out and saw that it was the exact thing that I was looking for.

I searched the whole website and saw that they offered overseas placement, and that they have placements in the USA.

After a couple of days of thinking I decided to apply with them and see what happened.

Well that was last Friday that I applied and today I got a call saying that we are going to try and get my paperwork all completed and in by the end of March. :)

It's so exciting to finally find something that I am good at.

So now I have so many things to get sorted....