August 2010
1 post
No Blood Lost
Some of the scariest moments in life are only scary because you are on your own, and the prime example of this is today when I sliced open my thumb. Of course it wasn’t as bad as it seemed at the time but I didn’t know that, all I could do was freak out because I didn’t have a clue what to do. I even contemplated going next door to ask… glad I thought that one through.
I have...
July 2010
2 posts
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Brain Splatter
It’s the end of my first week and I feel like my brain is about to explode. There is a lot to learn working in the hotel industry and working at recpetion is not as easy as people make it out to be. Not only are you the main person guests will rely on, but you are responsible for taking bookings, quoting prices (the correct ones), and there is a lot of administration and finance to...
June 2010
1 post
5 tags
Cumberland, not just a sausage!
As Thomas Edison rightly said “genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”. Being a student however, usually means ninety-nine per cent partying and one per cent thinking about studying and there is nothing genius about that.
The jump from 1st year to 2nd year is like jumping from the top of one moving bus to the top of another going in the opposite...