It has been another busy week here in London town. Not a great deal to write about though, it has all been a lots of boring housework stuff.
I spent a couple of days this week spreading handing in my CV to various restaurants and cafes. I have seen results though, lining up a couple of trial shifts and interviews. A couple that I have followed through to dead ends, but I have high hopes for a paid trial shift that I have tomorrow. It's for "Ripley's Believe It or Not" London museum. It's basically a freak show that displays a selection of the world's curiosities. A five legged lamb, shrunken heads, a portrait made of stamps, a meteorite, a Mini covered in sequins and Marilyn Monroe's bikini are just some of the items on display. It is an American franchise business (I seem to be cursed with working for these people!) and so is a bit of a money grubbing scheme. However, they are offering to pay me £7.50 an hour which is very good money for London.
I have also signed up with an agency called Admiral Group that send people out to various locations on a temporary basis. I've heard that they are pretty easy to sign up to and while the pay isn't very good you can pick and choose your jobs and hours to a certain extent. A good ace to have up my sleeve.
In other news, I was looking at moving to a different hostel. It is closer to the city, has its own kitchen and is also cheaper. I went and had a look at it yesterday though and discovered, that is was rather rough, dirty and well used. The roughness I could live with, but the condition of the bathrooms was a bit more questionable. I did the maths on it and found that while it would save me about £10-£20 a week, my gut just really didn't like the idea of living there. I like the hostel I'm at the moment. It is very clean, tidily run, well maintained, in a nice area, and I now have a few friends here who are also long-terming here. Taking all things into account I would much rather just stay here.
I've had to drop back on classes this week because the ££'s have become a bit thin, but with work just around I'm sure that I'll be back in business very soon. My first audition is also just around the corner. A company called European Ballet have an audition on Wednesday week and reading between the lines a bit, I think they are needing boys. Anyway, it is something to look forward to.
That's all the main news for this week. I'm off to do some washing now :-) Like I said, a week of housework.
Talk to you next week,
Rodney Cuthbertson
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