Archive for January, 2007
Oxfam
I signed up for a voluntary job at Oxfam on Tuesday and have just
arrived back from my first session, and it was great! I brought and
application with a couple of references and then got started almost
immeadiately. First, I was shown round the rather large shop in
Broomhill, Sheffield, and I was given a health and safety induction.
My first job, along with another boy who had joined, was to take a
large group of donated items downstairs using the old fashioned
industrial lift. We carried them in but it was a bit of a sqeeze – the
other boy Tom decided to take the stairs while I manned the lift. It
was rather difficult to get the doors shut with all the stuff present
but I did it, and then travelled down into the basement, where the hub
of the operation was located. This did not go smoothly – I hit the
button, waited until I felt I’d stopped, and opened the door to a
brick wall. Eventually however I arrived and we began sorting the
stuff.
Shortly afterwards I was introduced to the till and how to work it. I
then operated this for some time with someone keeping an eye on me,
and eventually was left to it for about an hour, serving customers.
Then I signed off the morning shift, counted and organised the money,
and then left. I can’t wait until next week!
Mock results are in
I’ll be updating this post when I get my statistics results, and probably making another post to comment upon them.
- History A*
- Science A* Phys: 92% Chem: 83% Bio:
- French A*
- Maths A 75.5% – on target for a full A* on real thing
- English A 67/80 – 70 for A* – 38/40 on the writing part
- ICT A* 100/105 95%
- Food A (A* not possible) 86%
- Stats