Week 3 at Swimming WA

I had a bit of a back-to-back this week. I am now in to my normal Monday routine, after doing a make up day last Friday.

The timing was probably a good thing. The other staff are more familiar with me, and it gave me the opportunity to complete some tasks we started on Friday. I was especially keen to see the newsletter in its finished form.

Clare was running a little bit late this morning, but it gave the chance to meet some of the other staff.

Simon is my boss. He is the Executive Director of Swimming WA. I had been hastily introduced to him my first week. He has a great sense of humour and helped to set me up with a lap top computer, before Clare finally arrived.

Today we had the newsletter to complete. There were more articles to write and upload, and much editing to do. I feel like I am an expert on WYSIWYG now!

Writing the President's message was interesting. Clare explained how we write the message and give it to the president for approval, just like the assessment we did last semester where we wrote a speech for the mayor.

Clare wrote the bulk of it, but had me add bits and edit it. She assured me she would not take offence to any of my editing, and very much appreciated my writing ability and input.

I was given a lot of space to form the newsletter in to what I felt looked good, with very little inteference from Claire. I enjoyed the creative freedom and the confidence I was gaining.

I also had to make a some phone calls to coaches to interview them about the recent junior championships. I felt confident and really enjoyed the task.

Clare once again thanked me and talked about what we will be doing next week. We will start working right away on next month's newsletter and put together some media releases on the Open championships on the weekend.

Loving it!