The real world beckons
To continue from the last one, here's more email luvin...
More important announcements:
2) Less than 2 months left in Canada (and more importantly only 3 weeks of classes left FOREVER!). For those back home, I'm coming back at the
very end of April for my Grad ceremony on May 6.
3) After many sleepless nights deliberating over comes after these next 2 months (ie what am I going to do with my life post 17.5 years of
studying), this issue was cleared up literally in a day's flurry of events.
In January I applied for an AIESEC traineeship with DHL, and on Feb 11 after an early-morning email and late night phone interview, lo and behold I found I'd be off again for a 12 month stint in SINGAPORE come mid-May!!! I'll be working in the soon to be 2-person legal division conquering such things mergers and acquisitions, taxation issues, employment contracts and generally being thrown in the deep end (am I apprehensive? hmmm maybe!).
On the upside (I think), I'll be reunited with my brother Adrian who has been working in Singapore for the last 3 years - apparently I'll get the pleasure of walking his dog and cooking for him. great. And although both children are still away overseas Mum and dad will surely be happy to be able to visit us in the one place!
It's sometimes all a bit strange to think I'll be living in Singapore and a few months. I'd never envisaged going there mainly because it's a country I've been to a few times before. But my thinking now is that there is a lot more to find out about the country and I'm fascinated to learn more about this capitalist-oriented city state. I'm also aiming to pick up Mandarin there and yey I get to go on business trips (the first to Beijing at the end of May!).
Well that's all for now folks. I'm off to go count flowers. (every February, while most Canadians are still shovelling snow and relying on heaters to keep warm, Victorians are counting flowers as part of the "Annual Flower Count". Apparently the grand total is celebrated as a farewell to winter and as a welcome to an early spring – and goodbye to pasty white skin, hoorah for some sun!)
Take care everyone. Write back and let me know how things are in your neck of the woods!
xot
More important announcements:
2) Less than 2 months left in Canada (and more importantly only 3 weeks of classes left FOREVER!). For those back home, I'm coming back at the
very end of April for my Grad ceremony on May 6.
3) After many sleepless nights deliberating over comes after these next 2 months (ie what am I going to do with my life post 17.5 years of
studying), this issue was cleared up literally in a day's flurry of events.
In January I applied for an AIESEC traineeship with DHL, and on Feb 11 after an early-morning email and late night phone interview, lo and behold I found I'd be off again for a 12 month stint in SINGAPORE come mid-May!!! I'll be working in the soon to be 2-person legal division conquering such things mergers and acquisitions, taxation issues, employment contracts and generally being thrown in the deep end (am I apprehensive? hmmm maybe!).
On the upside (I think), I'll be reunited with my brother Adrian who has been working in Singapore for the last 3 years - apparently I'll get the pleasure of walking his dog and cooking for him. great. And although both children are still away overseas Mum and dad will surely be happy to be able to visit us in the one place!
It's sometimes all a bit strange to think I'll be living in Singapore and a few months. I'd never envisaged going there mainly because it's a country I've been to a few times before. But my thinking now is that there is a lot more to find out about the country and I'm fascinated to learn more about this capitalist-oriented city state. I'm also aiming to pick up Mandarin there and yey I get to go on business trips (the first to Beijing at the end of May!).
Well that's all for now folks. I'm off to go count flowers. (every February, while most Canadians are still shovelling snow and relying on heaters to keep warm, Victorians are counting flowers as part of the "Annual Flower Count". Apparently the grand total is celebrated as a farewell to winter and as a welcome to an early spring – and goodbye to pasty white skin, hoorah for some sun!)
Take care everyone. Write back and let me know how things are in your neck of the woods!
xot
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