Experiencing The Workplace

Because of the changes made by Asda House to my work experience there I have had to contact Standfast and ask if I can start a week later.. this is abit frustrating as due to their shut down and then my holidays I will lose that week. I also hope that they are not offended and think I am taking the other placement more importantly.. it's just that I want to be able to do both!!

I had my confirmation off Asda House of the final dates for work experience but I have just emailed her to clarify as the first Monday is the last bank holiday in May and I'm not sure if they work then. Obviously in store we are open but often this is different in office work so I have sent a quick email just to check whilst I am researching accomodation.

Final confirmation of dates from Asda House.. I replied straight away and confirmed that I want to do the two weeks and will be sorting accomodation shortly. I will book train tickets when the accomodation is sorted too.

Lesson Learnt!! I was just about to book my accomodation and trains for Leeds-  work experience at Asda House - when I found an email off Claire Sanderson in the design team which had slipped into my Junk Folder. The email was to say something else has come up and they need to rearrange for the following weeks!! This is obviously too good an opportunity to pass up so I have agreed but it has thrown a spanner in the works in that accomodation has now gone up £50 p/wk and the experience now eats into the time I had arranged to go to Standfast & Barracks! So I now need to: - find more accomodation /pay the difference. - rearrange with Standfast (I am worried about this as they are already doing me a favour) - get cover for my shifts in work for the new dates of the placement. -book train tickets. It is also abit frustrating for me as I had planned the experience to be a continuation of my year at uni.. now I feel I will relax for two weeks and then have to get my head in g...

Preparing for work experience at Asda House I have been looking for accomodatiin and rail tickets. These are the best available prices and times I have found so far for the trains: Luckily I have a rail card anyway so this has taken the price down somewhat.. I haven' booked the tickets yet as I am waiting to see what I can book with regards to accomodatiin.  I still don't know if I will go the Sunday night or Monday morning.. Sunday night will probably be less stressfull but it will depend on the cost. If it get the train on Sunday the times/prices will be: It's £10 cheaper but an extra night at a hotel will probably cost much more so I will have to see on balance.  So far I have only managed to find accomodatiin at the cheapest is £170 per/week mon-fri and it goes up to £199 if it' sunday-Friday. .

I have started to plan my presentation I have started simply by adding 15 slides and some simple information that I already know I want/need to discuss. I don't want to add too much information as people won't read it and will get bored. I want to keep the layout clean and simple too so it doesn't distract from what I am saying! It's still very much a work in progress but I feel much better for having made a start! I need to be on top of this module as I am going on holiday the day after the presentation!!

Keeping track and making sure I post regularly has been quite hard for me as I am not very good with technology and try not to spend all my time attache to my phone.. I created a spreadsheet to try and organise my posts whish is something I saw done at Standfast and Barracks. I write the name of my post when I write one and mark it off once it has been posted.. this also helps to keep track of what I have already written about. It also helps me see the date of the last blog and when I haven't blogged.