New adventures await... in 5 weeks

I had an interview last Thursday, with Contiki. It was for a job that I applied for after being here for about 3 weeks. So way back in Sept.

When I walked in the other 2 guys (the other 8 were girls) were dressed as though they were going for a sales or accounting job. I was thinking "crap, either I've missed the mark coming in tidy casual or they have". When we eventually had to give our 5 minute presentation on some thing of interest to us in Europe, I ended up going first. From emails and from what was said prior to the presentations I felt that it wasn't so much what we said but how we said it.

I have to admit that when I got up I was more nervous than I would have liked, but gave my ad lib talk on where I have been, what I'm doing and where I hope to go. I tried to be jovial as well as include the other interviewees who were stone faced. (I guess they didn't want to laugh and support me) I don't think I hit 5 mins, but I felt I gave a fair representation of me. Once every one was done, we had to leave and call back at 1.15 to see if we had an interview. As I left I shook hands with one of the interviewers who said "we'll see you this afternoon" which made me think, either thats a generic throw away comment or I'm trough to the next stage....

So I had lunch with 6 others. 2 didn't get an interview which was awkward! but unsurprising, one girl was so nervous she had massive troubles thinking on the spot let alone talking.

So I went back for my one to one interview, I thought it went well.

And that was confirmed when I got home to find that I had been 'invited on the training trip'.

If successful then they offer you a job after, I'm sure this is just to cover them in case you leave every thing here (job, flat etc) then they find out that your crap and dont want you. You have no come back on them. Considering they have 30 positions and they take 30 people. Further more, there wouldn't be much time to retrain more people. So as long as I can do the required I think I'll be fine. Which thanks to camp and my work history shouldn't be hard to achieve.

So on the 26th of Feb (which is 3 months earlier than I thought it would be!) I'll go on the training trip to France for 2 weeks. Then come back to London for 10 days before taking placement in either France, Italy or Switzerland. ( I think) until Sept or Oct. When on return to London and budget pending I plan to do any more trips to see things in Europe. And hopefully a trip to Morocco. Before coming home!

So exciting times ahead, no doubt hard and challenging times. But I'm sure a learning experience all the same. Now I have only 5 weeks left in London (as a resident), so much to do and so little time!