My Job & My School

So I failed to mention, I have a job. I work for SMI and started in March.  It's a company that has other companies pay them to take care of their stuff in stores (AAFES), things like Loreal, 3M, Twin Lab, Scotts, Ortho, Bicycle (the playing cards), T-Fal, Caphalon, Sony, all kinds of stuff. Each line (company) tells SMI "well this store has X amount of our product so we will pay you (SMI) X amount of dollars and we want someone to work X amount of hours in this store on our product, making sure that its on the sales floor, making sure the display is nice, prices correctly, clean, and so on". Then SMI tells me "Alana we are assigning you Citizen (watches), Precious Moments, Sony and a few other small ones and we pay you so much an hour and you get X amount of hours for each line, make sure it looks nice" 

it's perfect because for the most part I set my own hours, I only work part time (16 hours a week) and the people I work for are pretty cool.  The only days I HAVE to work are Tuesday's because I do Sony's new releases, where if Sony has a new release I go to all the stores in the area and make sure the product is out and you can see it, and I take pictures and send them to Head Quarters so they know that things are being done right by the store employees. I also do Cooking demos for Caphalon, which is fun as hell because i get paid to stand and cook and tell people how great the pans are. (which they are, if your looking for pans to last you a life time, with a lifetime guarantee get yourself some!)

So thats about it for Job, school is much less exciting. I'm Attending University of Maryland University College~Asia, which actually has several campuses on several military bases all through  Europe and the Pacific.  I settled on a major, I'm working towards my Bachelors History & Environmental Management (yeah I'm cool, I'm double majoring) with a minor in English. I havnt started any of the EM classes yet, I will have to take them on line because they arn't offered here, neither are any of the upper level History classes. If we stay here long enough (and i can pull at least 2 classes a term) I should be done with it in about 5 years and i can knock a few years off if for some reason i choose to drop a major.

if you made it through this you will be excited because my next post i promise will contain much fewer words and many more pictures.