The time is 22:47 and my energy levels had a real work out today. The explosions in my stomach managed to numb all traces of nervousness. This morning I arrived at SAMRO (Southern African Music Rights Organisation) at 8 am, hoping to help Noel`ene Kotze (my supervisor) with setting up our work spaces. I was so anxious to start working because of being completely annoyed by the fact that I was no longer kept under pressure by Wits University’s academic demands. Having time in abundance is a blessing UP TO A CERTAIN PERIOD whereby it’s just too much time to relax and cook up little research endeavors on the internet that all point to one fact. Information is only consolidated through practical experience.
When I read Vorster Ramanyathi’s blog post on his visit to SAMRO, a part of me thought that he was being overly optimistic about the organization and its people. Well, that was prior to my personal experience of SAMRO as an intern there. It turns out that I was being a bit pessimistic about my experience there. I pictured a dodgy, isolated and quit working space with long corridoors and bad lighting. My reality was that there is not a single person that I met so far at SAMRO that lacked humility in any way. Noel`ene Kotze, Oscar Phophi and the rest of the SENA (SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts) staff made so much effort to make us feel at home. Noel`ene's chocolate cake and qute pink pencil gift just made my day:-) That really stood out for me. It is no wonder Alpha (One of SENA’s staff members) decides to carry on working at SAMRO after 5 years of being employed there. I hear that there are staff members that have been there for 30 years. This makes SAMRO such a unique organization-especially because of the picture painted by some of the World Of Work Internship Program’s guest speakers. The last thing I expected was feeling completely energized after work-especially after losing 3 hours worth of work probably because of my incompetence!! I could have listened to Oscar more carefully as he was training me. It was good that he allowed me to make that mistake. I did learn my lesson though.
Eish…Anyways, I get home and start cooking. As I carry on, I receive an sms from Jean Power (the WOW facilitator) that Judy Nkuna and I have been nominated for The Best Intern Award!! This just made the explosions in my stomach worse because I was already nervous about my performance at the World Of Work Training and Internship Program’s (WOW) graduation ceremony-that is tomorrow by the way! I'll be singing some jazz and one of my compositions. The explosions are coming back again!!! Hawu madoda (Ooh, my goodness!!)!! Ok. I’ll be alright… Ja… That reminds me- I should paste this article on my blog tomorrow morning. I don’t have internet access at home. It’s just a matter of time before I do though:-)
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embrace that girl, cause it won't last. unless you are trying to immpress someone. we know having studied a music degree does'nt always mean you have secured a good future.
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