work experience day 1!

so ..... yeargh. im working in ________ (dont mention it yet for fear they can google this blog) :D

so i arrived about 20 minutes before my shift starts so to avoid getting lost, etc. after i walked through the ENTRY DOOR, i almost giggled. it was funny. i had to put my bag through one of those machines that they have at the airport and can see all the contents of your bag! the people looking after it were dressed in police uniform so it was cool.

walking into the reception (with my bag) i saw a lady in front of me, also waiting. turns out today was her first day too cause she got transferred from another local court :) she said that engineers got paid really well (after i mentioned i wanted to get into medicine or engineering when i grow up).

walking into the office, i got introduced to Kay who was to look after me (she's super nice and likes chinese food). the person who filled out my work experience forms REALLY looks like a cartoon guy. seriously. like. SERIOUSLY. im not sure if this is the guy but it's one of those things where i cant pinpoint it but i just swear he looks like him.

but i will temporarily not attach it :)

so first i had to make sure that all these sheets had spaces and that the current date was on it so the magistrate could write on it. then ... we went to 'call over'. from what i saw the registrar was simply asking the person if they plead guilty or not guilty but Kay told me that it lessened the burden of the magistrates so that they could concentrate on determining whether someone was guilty or innocent. so i think that's probably why they sorted out when hearings would be and in which court, etc.

afterwards we got to eat morning tea :D i ate morning tea in the smaller lunch room which had a fridge and sink and one table with .... three or four chairs. there was a guy already there and Kay and I sat down. Kay began eating slices of ham while i began munching on my apple (i later ate my biscuits). then i noticed that the guy had the .. meadow lea butter with text on it that said 'property of ______ (i forgot his name). DO NOT TOUCH.' and i got amused. also, he took out a bun and sliced it in half and begun spreading the butter on it. he used quite a bit and wasnt as paranoid as me so didnt spread it to the very sides. then he TOOK VEGEMITE OUT AND SPREAD IT ON TOP OF THE BUTTER. in a thinner layer cause vegemite is so salty. BUT OMG HE ATE BUTTER WITH VEGEMITE!!!!! that sounds quite gross.

anyway. so then another lady called Hannah (i think) came in and begun talking to Kay about ford cars that look like bubbles and Kay said that those cars are very good. then she asked me what i wanted to do when i grew up and what my parents worked as and somehow we landed on the topic of rice. Kay said that once her friend told her that unlike asian stereotypes, they eat rice AFTER they eat vegies. i said no ... we eat rice during eating our vegies >.> and that maybe she was talking about when you're still hungry you go get more rice. yeah and we kept talking.

then i went and had to print out new coversheets for cases that had all the columns of the table filled out. paper based systems omg. BUT THERE WAS SO MUCH PAPER IN THERE ... like your wrist to elbow height stack of paper for like one day (sometimes more, sometimes less). then i had to arrange them in alphabetical order.

then i had to find some cases that were missing and not in their correct pile (hence sorting through several stacks of wrist to elbow high sheets until Kay found the booklet while searching with me). i also had to manually add some cover sheets onto some cases and rewrite the defendant's name and offence on it. also photocopied and scanned a teeny bit.

omg i swear i had so much to say but now i forgot them all. oh yeah, they use the same clocks as we do at school. also, the lunch room is awesome cause the upstairs one is huge and there are magazines! i read about a serial killer who killed 70 something girls in 20 or 30 years. great way to spend my lunch :D also when i was looking through the stacks of paper the stack in 23/11 went missing. she asked if i had accidentally shoved it in with another date (cause it's very important that they're in the right dates) and i said that it was already empty ... and i felt bad :( cause i was scared she thought i did it cause i was new but i was quite sure i didnt. but i cant say for sure. but IM SO SURE.

and and and cause in the morning it was cool and the temperature inside was similar to that of outside i didnt notice they had on aircon. so in the afternoon when i walked out i was suddenly hit by the overwhelming humidity and like 30+ degree weather. but i cbb taking my vest off cause my bag was annoying to open and the station was only 10 minutes walk away. oh did i mention that in the morning i caught a train 4 minutes later than my usual train ... AND MY TRAIN WAS EMPTY. LIKE FIVE PEOPLE IN EACH CARRIAGE. ASHG;PDFHG;SJHGDF. it's what happens when you travel in the opposite direction to the city during peak hour in the morning. IT WAS THE SAME WHEN I CAME BACK. and they were all nice air con trains (just tangara though). but OMG imagine it was like that every morning when we go to school :') wouldnt that be nice.

this post is getting really really long. im so sure i had so much more to say. but i forgot. how sad. well, no photos provided cause i didnt wanna go snapshotting my workmates. coolies :D hope you guys all had fun!