So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye...

Today I finally got my certificate for completing the twelve-week Poached Creative Writing and Communications training programme. Today is also my very last day (at least for now) with Poached Creative.

It's been five months since Jess, Jeevan and I sat in a meeting room in Wood Green library for our first session. I'm sitting here trying to think of everything that has happened since I started. Six writing & comms trainees and two design trainees have walked through the doors of Poached, which conjures up images of walking through dry ice pre-transformation on Stars in Their Eyes, only without Matthew Kelly.

Chris Warburton is currently loving his work experience for What's Up Information (read his blog here). And...(drumroll please)... I got the voluntary position with Save the Children!

It's been a couple of weeks since it was confirmed that I had indeed got the job. I had thought that I would be doing an on-the-job training internship: picking up skills from working alongside professionals who would coach me further in writing and communications. This doesn't seem to be the case with Save the Children: they want me for my expertise! During the interview, I had to demonstrate that I increased visitor numbers to a website, so I cited my Dad's website and the use of Twitter as an example.

I'm looking forward to starting but I'm also a bit apprehensive: Am I up to the job? Will they like me? Will I somehow find a way to screw this up for myself? Once I've got the first day out of the way, I'm sure I'll be fine. I've had lots of encouragement from family and friends and they believe in me, even if I sometimes don't!

Onwards and upwards then...