I am currently sat in a silent office – the silent office which may or may not become my next place of work. Before I go on, I’ll just say that even if I don’t get the job, I’m glad to have spent today here. Because they have a tea menu. Did you get that? An actual menu of t Leaf  T teas which are available to drink in the office… If you haven’t already tried tea by t Leaf  T then where have you been? I’ve only lived in NZ for 9 months and I’m already in love with their teas (and I’m English which makes me knowledgeable in the area of what makes a good tea..ahem). t Leaf Ts are available to buy everywhere, and most cafes (the lovely cafes anyway) sell it. On top of a tea MENU (I can’t get over that, working here would be a little bit of heaven), they have a gumball machine full of giant Jaffas! GIANT JAFFAS!! And you don’t even have to put a dollar in the machine for it to cough up a Jaffa, it’s free!!! And ON TOP of all that, they have bathrooms here instead of toilets. As in real, shower and bath containing rooms. They even have rubber ducks on the side of the bath.

Today is like when you go to babysit at a neighbour’s house which you’ve never been in before, and they tell you to help yourself to anything in the fridge or larder and you discover that they have all your favourite snacks. You’d babysit for free if they asked you to.

Except usually you don’t have to sit a test prior to babysitting. That was the only unfortunate part of today. The test. Oh dear, the test… It had three parts – I had to talk about which three advertising media I would use to target two specific audiences and why. I didn’t want to make sweeping generalisations about the audiences I was given so I kept it short and sweet. Then I was given a table of data which I had to chart in both Excel and Powerpoint. I’ve not had purpose to use Powerpoint before but I managed to create two charts in it anyway. In fact, I was given a PC to use when I am so used to my Macbook that just trying to convert back to using Windows was a test in itself. The test was given to me as a Word document which I had to save as a new document within which I’d answer the questions. I couldn’t even locate the ‘Save As’ command. Yes I am a ‘tard. I had to open a second copy of Word and cut and paste the test in to it, then save it like that…

Aside from the test, everyone in the office seems very nice – a large part appear to have lived/worked overseas and I chatted to the Receptionist who, like me, is a migrant with a Kiwi partner; who, like me, has recently moved here (like me she even lived with the inlaws for a while) and she has recently started to work in the company after months without a permanent position (like me!) - it would be good (if I get the job) to have this in common with someone… I don’t know why, it just seems like a good thing.

Now everyone has left the office for their staff lunch and I’m trying to occupy myself. I’ve been shown where client files are so I can look at bits and pieces about the company, but without actually having a job here I feel I shouldn’t be nosy. It’s tempting to look at their pitch documents, but that would be my personal integrity gone! So I’m sat on the internetz instead, refreshing my Facebook homepage and telling y’all how it’s going without actually knowing anything yet. It’s been 1 and a half hours already (I think they said they’d be away for 3) and the phone hasn’t rung (EDIT, it just rang). I’ve only had to answer the door once to a courier, so this isn’t too taxing really – the nerve-wracking part is out of the way at least. I don’t think they’ll be testing me with a fake-phonecall either… Or will they (EDIT, it wasn’t a fake phonecall)?!