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First days of school suck, especially if you don't know anyone in your class.

The first few days are always awkward; where do I sit? Who looks nice enough to talk to me? Did that person just give me a weird look? I knew I shouldn't have worn these psychedelic coloured pants.

I knew there would be some sort of group related work for this program, so I was nervous about starting over and making new friends. So, I figured I would just listen to Tim's lectures, do my work and go home.

However, to my surprise, I did connect with three particular ladies that make coming to school a little less annoying and a lot more fun.

I quickly realized that the three ladies, Sam, Sadie and Luisa, were in the same boat as me. None of us knew anyone or had any experience in the public relations field. Soon enough, small awkward "how are you today" moved to inside jokes about topics we had created throughout the first semester of school.

Embarking on a new experience like this program is both scary and exciting. Scary because I don't know what I'm really getting myself into, but exciting because I'm making real friends (and yes, learning valuable knowledge!) that I can see myself hanging out with long after we graduate. So, the moral of this story is that no matter how scared you may be about new things, always accept them with open arms. We cannot move forward in out lives if we don't take the first step. Try it for yourself, you will learn something new about yourself, and meet some cool people along the way!

 

Sadie, myself & Sam (at our weekly 4 hour design class!)

myself, Luisa, Sadie & Sam making our finest professional faces!

Welcome to my blog!

My name is Amanda; I’m a 22 year-old public relations student at Mohawk College. I graduated from McMaster University last year with a degree in Communications and I’m extremely eager to start my very own blog!

A little bit about me to get things rolling here: I'm currently in my final (let's hope) year of school and I am so excited to start working in the field of public relations. My work experience stinks of a customer service junkie; I worked at a grocery store for 6 years, a summer of marketing for a window cleaning company, and am currently an office assistant at a hair salon and a field representative for a marketing firm called Infield marketing.Yes, I've had my share of horrible customers but the great customers make up for it.

This is my first attempt on “blogging” (minus my humorous attempts on Twitter) so bear with me here! My goal with this blogging assignment is to *attempt* to organize my thoughts about my education, family,friends, food, music and everything that makes me, me. This intro is just establishing what I wish to accomplish, I guess you could say my CommunicationsPlan…okay enough with my PR dialogue here.

I think the best way to introduce myself to the blogging world is through a good old mission statement. I would say we are all our ownorganizations—we are our own spokesperson for ourselves so why not have a mission statement? It would be helpful to read everyone’s own mission statement to be able to relate to new people. Sounds okay? I’m going to try to give it ago now.

My mission statement: To use my communication skills to connect with people—either people who share the same interests as me, or people who are just interested in learning something new. We are all walking spokespersons of our own brand and a blog is a great channel to get our personalities out into the virtual world.

So hopefully I can get my own brand across with this blog,and meet some interesting people along the way. Keep reading, I’ll post something tasty next J