Well. I'm tucked up in bed right now with about 3 glasses of water using every last muscle to type this entry. Not because I'm ill but rather is a duel between tiredness and a sugar coma (and I still don't know which is which).
Today was the first day of New to DMU 2017. Some of you might remember my entry where I spoke about it (if not you can read about it here) so I won't go into the full ins and outs about what it but rather what I got up to.
At half past 9, myself and 6 other ambassadors were instructed to guide 30 aspies and their parents to a room in Hawthorn. The catch? None of us was HLS students and Hawthorn is the DMU equivalent of a Labrinth with more corridors than a Harry Potter dorm. Needless to say what seemed a simple task turned into a full operation.
After this, I was with the parents settling any worries that they may have. I then had to explain to 60 odd nervous parents and Leanne exactly what a dirty pint was. Clearly, I, have been subjected to them more than some other folk.
After lunch, we were then left with the job of escorting 30 aspies to Bede Halls with no idea of flat lists and ensuring we got rid of all the parents. This turned into 3 groups of parents doing to age old 'I just want to look at the flat'. Parents, there's this thing called Google Images and Bede Halls really isn't that exciting to the point that you have to follow your child there, especially given that most of the aspies aren't even living there. Needless to say, I, had to go for the subtle 'you have X number of minutes to activity Y. Parents, you have to be off campus by this time'. I honestly need to be a parent even if it's just to understand their plight a bit better.
After this, we finally got to give out the keys which lead to one poor ambassador as he called someone the wrong name. That, someone, didn't like that very much and snapped at the poor bloke whilst I was there like 'bugger. I did that earlier. Double bugger.'
After everyone finally had a room and the parents left, we then had the trip to Tesco. Which turned into one bloke being passed around around every ambassador because he was male and it turned out he was in the female's flat which for 7 aspies who weren't told this in advance was very confusing. I am also proud to say that not a single person brought booze whilst they were in there (trust us we checked. We ambassadors planned to split the contraband for Fresher's week.) and I think everyone was in the budget.
We then got back to Bede where we had a healthy eating workshop with a quiz and bingo. Who knows if teaching doesn't work out, maybe I could be a bingo caller. Heard Gala pay quite well. Then it was on to the cooking.
I was in a flat with 7 males and this flat was on garlic bread duty. This, of course, was being made from scratch however the one particular gentleman had decided to use 5 bulbs of garlic in the butter and I only realised this when my mouth started to burn due to the sheer strength of it. Needless to say, I advised this student to maybe add a little bit more butter before we started to spread it. Extra garlic aside, the cooking was a success and everyone was well fed.
After this, myself and 2 other ambassadors took a group of students to Doorstep Desserts when we got to eat free pudding. It's a tough job but somebody has to have the free cookie dough.
Needless to say, today has been a very long day and I am very grateful for the 1 pm start tomorrow so I really need to catch up on my sleep before the shift. Especially given that I'm probably not going to be done to 11 minimum, however, I get money, I enjoy it and I get free laser-tag and pizza. Let's be honest, there are worse shifts out there.
I shall hopefully get more photos tomorrow and I've been a bit rubbish with the camera today.
Until tomorrow,
Toodle Pips.
Kelly
Today was the first day of New to DMU 2017. Some of you might remember my entry where I spoke about it (if not you can read about it here) so I won't go into the full ins and outs about what it but rather what I got up to.
At half past 9, myself and 6 other ambassadors were instructed to guide 30 aspies and their parents to a room in Hawthorn. The catch? None of us was HLS students and Hawthorn is the DMU equivalent of a Labrinth with more corridors than a Harry Potter dorm. Needless to say what seemed a simple task turned into a full operation.
After this, I was with the parents settling any worries that they may have. I then had to explain to 60 odd nervous parents and Leanne exactly what a dirty pint was. Clearly, I, have been subjected to them more than some other folk.
After lunch, we were then left with the job of escorting 30 aspies to Bede Halls with no idea of flat lists and ensuring we got rid of all the parents. This turned into 3 groups of parents doing to age old 'I just want to look at the flat'. Parents, there's this thing called Google Images and Bede Halls really isn't that exciting to the point that you have to follow your child there, especially given that most of the aspies aren't even living there. Needless to say, I, had to go for the subtle 'you have X number of minutes to activity Y. Parents, you have to be off campus by this time'. I honestly need to be a parent even if it's just to understand their plight a bit better.
After this, we finally got to give out the keys which lead to one poor ambassador as he called someone the wrong name. That, someone, didn't like that very much and snapped at the poor bloke whilst I was there like 'bugger. I did that earlier. Double bugger.'
After everyone finally had a room and the parents left, we then had the trip to Tesco. Which turned into one bloke being passed around around every ambassador because he was male and it turned out he was in the female's flat which for 7 aspies who weren't told this in advance was very confusing. I am also proud to say that not a single person brought booze whilst they were in there (trust us we checked. We ambassadors planned to split the contraband for Fresher's week.) and I think everyone was in the budget.
We then got back to Bede where we had a healthy eating workshop with a quiz and bingo. Who knows if teaching doesn't work out, maybe I could be a bingo caller. Heard Gala pay quite well. Then it was on to the cooking.
I was in a flat with 7 males and this flat was on garlic bread duty. This, of course, was being made from scratch however the one particular gentleman had decided to use 5 bulbs of garlic in the butter and I only realised this when my mouth started to burn due to the sheer strength of it. Needless to say, I advised this student to maybe add a little bit more butter before we started to spread it. Extra garlic aside, the cooking was a success and everyone was well fed.
After this, myself and 2 other ambassadors took a group of students to Doorstep Desserts when we got to eat free pudding. It's a tough job but somebody has to have the free cookie dough.
Needless to say, today has been a very long day and I am very grateful for the 1 pm start tomorrow so I really need to catch up on my sleep before the shift. Especially given that I'm probably not going to be done to 11 minimum, however, I get money, I enjoy it and I get free laser-tag and pizza. Let's be honest, there are worse shifts out there.
I shall hopefully get more photos tomorrow and I've been a bit rubbish with the camera today.
Until tomorrow,
Toodle Pips.
Kelly
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