Narmeda+(wio)

My Timeline

We were unfortunately evicted out of our motherland, Bhutan where we were born. We were in exile for eighteen years in Nepal as refugees. I studied up to class ten in refugee camp and graduated from Kalimpong College, India in 2004 where I studied english, economics and political science as my major subjects.

After completing my degree I worked as an assistant teacher for one and a half years at a private school in Pokhara, Nepal. Besides my teaching duty, I was given a responsibility to supervise and control the students during the Tiffin hour, which I actually enjoyed the most. After that I left my job and simply stayed at home caring for my baby.

Again two years later I returned back to university for my further studies. Unfortunately, I had to discontinue my university education because my process to come to Australia had begun. We were categorized for Australia. It was a matter of excitement after I heard this news. It was in fact a very pleasant moment. As soon as we completed all the steps of our procedure we eagerly waited for the date of flight. A week later, there was a notice about our flight that was confirmed for 15th of March 2009. We knew that we had to wait for seven days to fly to Australia but it went in a flash. I was quite worried that the English language, vocabulary, etc. would not be sufficient to communicate in context of Australia. Then my family and I started our journey towards Australia. It took five days to land here. We came to Adelaide first and stayed nearly for two months.We decided to shift to Hobart because our extended families were already here, so we came to join them. After a month we were enrolled in TAFE to learn english. I was selected in level three because my English was found to be quite good. I was thankful that my level of english was recognized and valued. In the meantime I had to stop my study hours because my husband fell sick and I had to assist and care for him at home, so, that is what I did. After the break I was able to continue my english classes as there was good progress in my husband's health after his surgery. Soon, within a few days I got information about the "work it out" program from Gayle which was good news for me. My husband advised and insisted me to go for it. So I decided to join and achieve all the possible experiences to get a job in the near future. Thus, I decided to get involved in any kind of work and grab my short term goal. I think, in a few years I will go for nursing after gaining experiences from the first workplace.

Narmada


 * My work placement**

My first work placement will be at Royal Hobart Hospital. I will be working as a food service worker. It is in the public sector. It is the longest running institution in Tasmania,established in 1804 to provide free service to convict and settlers. Patients were treated in wooden huts in the beginning until the new hospital was completed in 1820. There are 550physical beds including 460 acute overnight.There are 3015 paid staff. My duties to be performed are just to arrange the meals in the shelf according to the chart,take it to the scheduled ward and distribute them to the patients carefully by tallying the list of the chart. I will be going to wear a white polo shirt, black pants and non-slip shoes.I will be going by bus to my work and it takes not more than half an hour(30 minutes).My work experience will start from 13th of April and I will be working eight hours a day(7am-3pm). So far as I know I need to be there before 7am.

My work experience this time This week I was quite comfortable in work experience because I am geeting use to it. I wasn't so nervous than that of last week and worked with more confident.They said that I am active and working well.They didn't give me feedback or comments like am i doing good or bad.They didn't ask me where u would like to work or in which section.They sent me where they needed help.The people who were working there were very friendly and helpful.Everybody needs to be really fast and fair as well. After this week I felt confident as if I am progressing a lot.