27 July, 2008 in Church, Work by Aonghas

Goodbye Denis!

It was more or less a typical Sunday for me today. I didn’t fall asleep during the sermon that many times I don’t think… although I can’t really remember to be honest. After the service at Sunday School, we were talking about personal body image and how we perceive ourselves. It was a pretty interesting conversation though I don’t know if I said everything I wanted to say.

Today I didn’t have to start work until 2 o’clock (I usually start at 1:30pm) so I had more time to eat lunch and not have to worry about the time. At lunch we had pork buns and sticky rice; the buns were separated into separate bags – because usually they have a vegetable bun and a pork bun in the same bag. I sat down at a table with Hamish and while we were eating, Sherman came over to sit with us. I hadn’t talked to Sherman for a long time and he was interested to know how I had been over the last little while. I told him about school and how everything this year has been really busy. I talked about going to Atlanta for the robotics competitition and he seemed quite interested (well, I think he was…). He then told me about his work at the hostel and his intentions to do further study in Christianity. Later my mum came over to our table and we continued our conversation for a little bit longer until we had to go.

When I arrived at work I was greeted by Rosaria, one of the new girls. I remembered that Denis had transferred to work at Cotton On Newmarket, because he usually worked with me on Sundays. I didn’t even get to say goodbye to him properly. Oh well, I’m sure we will meet again the next time I feel an urge to buy some clothes from Cotton On Newmarket. Make sure you come to visit me sometime too Denis! Rosaria’s shift finished at 2 o’clock so I was going to be working the rest of my shift by myself. The four hour countdown began.

One of the things I like best when I’m working is when friends and whanau come to visit me. I like to keep a list of the people who come to visit (and hopefully I’ll add the grand visitors list to my website soon). Before I actually started my shift I met Zhan Curtis who was buying something at the counter. I had to stop and think whether or not Zhan still went to our school; I didn’t want to ask him and embarrass myself if he said yes. I think he does still go to our school though… yeah, let’s go with that. Nobody else who I recognised came in to see me for a long time after that, so I spent most of the time trying to rack up the store and make it look tidy. There were a few boxes of stock in the changing rooms which I didn’t know if I was supposed to do or not, but upon closer inspection I noticed that most of it was sale stock and we don’t have the sale stock on the floor at the moment. Anyway, halfway through my shift Kriza came into the store. Kriza was one of the supervisors who was working at Cotton On when I first started in December 2006. It was really good to see her again after such a long time. We had a short conversation and she told me that she was doing her honours year of her Food Science degree at Auckland Uni. After Kriza left, the visitor numbers started to grow! Great! First it was Serenne who came in, then I met a Korean girl called Jenny (who used to learn violin from Mrs Green with us) before Ari and Elina came in to visit. Apparently it is Kento’s (their younger brother) birthday tomorrow so they came to the mall to look for a birthday present for him. Gees Ari, took you long enough to come visit…