New beginnings

The weekend was fun like I thought it would be. I thoroughly enjoyed returning to cardio kickboxing. East Bay Waltz was great too; I saw some old acquaintances and met some new ones while dancing the night away. The Ghirardelli Square festival had delicious chocolate and great music.

I began my new job today. I had a good first day filled with orientation and project assignments. I'm excited to start my projects. I also got started on my paper for my Employee Recruitment, Selection and Placement class.

busy busy this weekend

Lots of activities are happening this weekend. Friday afternoon, I am attending an event at my previous place of employment and that evening I am going to my first cardio kickboxing class since London. On Saturday I have class and then I am going to the first ever East Bay Waltz. I hope to brush up my old moves, learn new ones, meet people with common interests and have fun. Sunday afternoon I am going to the 14th Annual Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival and Monday I start at my new job.

What I've been up to

Hi Readers,

Sorry I haven't posted in a while; I've been very busy. I am reviewing 500 pages of text and 50 pages of lectures to prepare for my final exam in my Essentials of Human Resources class on Monday. I went to many cardio kickboxing classes at my gym. That is a workout; and at first all the moves seemed so complicated but I am a fast learner and now it is just fun and athletic. Yesterday, I went out to eat a dinner followed by an hour and a half of a lovely comedic film, which I recommend, entitled 500 Days of Summer. This afternoon I went to the PEERS' River City Picnic dance. Here is the "Congress of Vienna".

On Tuesday I am going to SwingGoths and on Wednesday I have a presentation for my other class. After that things will calm down a bit I hope.

On the work side of things I am still volunteering at UC Berkeley's Health Services Center doing HR Assistant work. I also found another volunteer job and I am helping the firm to create a recruiting strategy for their professional and student jobs.

Oh well, see you when I see you.

Older people flocking to Facebook

Are older people using Facebook more? A new study by online marketing firm iStrategyLabs says they are.

It is great to see older people embracing technology. Peter Corbett, chief executive of iStrategyLabs, told the Chronicle that the influx of older users could be attributed to job networking during a struggling economy but I hope this is a permanent change instead of a recession-inspired fad. When there have been elderly people in my life that have not used modern technology such as past colleagues, bosses, my parent's and their friends, etc. it felt like it took longer to accomplish the littlest tasks. I hope the new Facebook users will have a good experience and branch out to other forms of modern technology.

On another note, I had a busy week. In my HR essentials class I was very pleased after learning that I got an A on my midterm. I am keeping up in my reading and am currently studying Total Rewards and Compensation, Variable Pay and Executive Compensation and Managing Employee Benefits. I'm starting a new recruiting project at my volunteer gig. And while salsa class ended this week, I finally got to try my dance steps out in the real-world by attending Shattuck Down Low's salsa night and learning some new moves and waltz is still going strong.