Practicum - Day 1

I began my practicum today at the Georgia Center. For this part of the practicum I am working within Guest Services as a bellboy. It went pretty smoothly. I shadowed one of the current bellboys to get a feel for everything. Guest services is the first thing people see when they arrive at the Georgia Center and the last thing they see when they leave so it is imperative to make a good impression. One minor bad experience with Guest Services could prevent a client from ever returning even if everything went right during the stay. Basically what my job entailed was greeting people, offering to take any luggage to their rooms, answering any questions, and showing them to their destination if need be. Since the Georgia Center also offers a shuttle, we would be the ones to drive the vans to transport any guests staying at the hotel. Everyone was very friendly and answered any questions I asked. The whole atmosphere was very laid-back.

Today's completed hours: 4
Hours left to complete: 41

Many Blogs and BEP

For two of my classes this semester (both within my major) I have to write blogs. One class is about event planning and the vibe I got was that the blog was a way to professionally bitch and complain about the people I will be working with. The other class involves me gaining 45 hours of volunteer work within a leisure service agency and I will have to blog about the activities I perform. I will probably have to reread both assignment descriptions before I begin (aka tomorrow) so I don't end up failing such lame assignments.

In other news, yesterday I won two tickets to meet the Black Eyed Peas this Thursday then see them in concert. Ludicris and LMFAO are opening so I'm pretty excited. I'm taking my boyfriend, Matt, and he was a little beyond excited as well. The whole story is pretty interesting. Matt was going to buy me tickets to see them for my birthday but we decided against it because the concert was in Atlanta and I didn't want to miss class so I would literally just be going to Atlanta for the concert. Prior to all this I entered into a sweepstakes online through a radio station to win a pair of tickets. I tried once but was denied because I wasn't 21 yet but the day after my birthday I entered (completely forgot until now) and apparently won. The guy called me Monday while I was in class so immediately after I listened to the voice mail. I'll admit I might have let out a small scream and then proceeded to hyperventilate. Needless to say, I canceled everything for Thursday and will not be attending class on Friday. I'm going to meet Fergie. NBD.