I've just started my first week on campus and let me tell you... it hasn't come easy.
First let me explain what my job is..
Mon - Wed I am running between classes making announcements (At least 20), not just any old announcement, but a LOUD, fast and entertaining announcement in front of lecture halls filled with students! Then on Thursday I am giving 45 minute presentations with a partner talking about travel and volunteering opportunities overseas!
Does everyone understand this? (Nod head).
To get to this point all of the recruiters went through a 2 week training process starting in Sydney but the majority in Big Bear - California. Big Bear is 8000ft above sea level and being a Kiwi and always close to the sea it actually made it difficult to breath. And considering breathing is rather important especially when your running and yelling for 12 hours a day... we ALL got sick. I don't just mean we got the sniffles, there was Pneumonia and Bronchitis going around. I think overall 4 people ended up leaving training because they were too ill or realised that the job ahead was going to be a bit too intense.
And when I say 12 hours a day... it was actually more like 16... because on top of training we had homework. Homework yay!!!! We spent a lot of our 'homework' time complaining about things though to be honest, about how crap the food was or about how insane it is to be expected to train so much BUT, I hate to admit it, it was all necessary. I'm on campus now and my first 2 announcements were sooo shaky, even though Ive been practicing it for over a month.
Good news is, in my last round of announcements I actually got cheers and applauds by everyone in the lecture. Never before have I felt more like a ROCKSTAR! WOO!
Super amped.. but cant wait to get to bed tonight... the 5.45am start was killer especially being Jetlagged errrr
