On my new job....
So this morning I got up at 4:45am, rolled out of bed, put on my "Bodyworks" pants, t-shirt and polar fleece and walked my ass the 30 min. over to the Bodyworks gym where I'm the new "morning cleaning technician". I have to be there by 5:30am. I got there at like 5:20 today, which was good cuz it actually meant I got finished a little early. Anyways, I work 5 days a week, Mon-Fri from 5:30am-8:30am. Yes, that means I'm gonna be getting up at 4:45am every week day for the rest of my life. And by rest of my life I mean until I die and move on to a new job or something. Basically I'm a cleaning lady. And I do my cleaning while there are people in the gym. This means that I feel like a maid and I find the toughest part of my job feeling like I'm still worth something while cleaning up after people with other people watching me do it. I think I'll be fine with it if I just disappear in my own little world while I clean.
When I arrive in the morning, I head to the women's locker room where I vacuum and mop the floors, clean mirrors, wipe counters, clean toilets, replace soap and toilet paper, clean out 5 of the 10 showers, and dust the area. Then I go over to the nursery (which they call the creche) and I clean the two bathrooms there and vacuum and mop and wipe tables and high chair things. I also vacuum one of the aerobics studios. Then I go to the staff room where I do the most difficult part of the job for me. I wash the dishes of the rest of the staff. Usually there are people in there eating while I'm doing this. For some reason I find it very demoralizing, but they thank me, and those that are there sometimes do their own dishes. I also vacuum in there and the hallway and the offices of the management people. Oh yeah, I take the trash out of all of those places too. It's strange cuz I have 3 hours to do all this, but today I think I did a really good job, and I was done in 2.5 hours. Of course, I had to wait around for the management offices to be opened cuz they can't give me a key to those and they don't get there before about 8.
I'm trying to decide if I should go out tonight or not. I could, and I kinda wanna get out and do something fun, but I still have to get up at the ass-crack of dawn. I also have studying/reading that I should be doing, but I have done a decent amount of it already.
I'm in a really strange mood. I think that I'm tired from getting up early (which will go away as i get used to it), combined with the job being a bit tough for me mentally, combined with a basically kinda lonely feeling, i kinda want to just curl up with a pillow and cry. Which is why I want to go do something fun so that I don't sit here being bored and lonely while doing work. *sigh*
I really do like it here in New Zealand, it's just really hard to meet people. I'm too shy to talk to them and there's only like 8 people in my classes, 4 of whom talk to me, but most of them already have all of their friends.
Next week is our holidays. We have a 2-week mid-semester break. Anne and I are renting a car and driving up to Rotorua (hot springs and nightlife) and then over to Waitomo (glow worm caves and blackwater rafting/caving trip), then up to Hamilton where Caroline lives. From Carolines we're then going over to Raglan (relatively famous surfing beach) to surf for two days. Then we're going back to Hamilton and then we're driving back to Wellington Friday morning. I am supposed to do this training for a conference I'm volunteering at on friday from 4 til whenever. we're supposed to have pizza and beer, this might be a chance for me to bond a bit more with some of the people in my class. The next week after that we still have no school, but I have to work again, so I'll be getting up at the ass crack of dawn again and then sleeping all day (hopefully). I'm working on getting a bike on trademe (The NZ version of ebay). I may have found one for $15, but I gotta see how it ends up. If I get one, then I can sleep til 5 and still get tehre around 5:20 to start my cleaning. That way I can also make it home for breakfast and lunch every morning. Yay!
Think that's it for now, I've got no idea if we're doing anything tonight...we'll see....
*sigh*
just cuz