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    A Student's Guide to Living
    A Student's Guide to Living
    A Student's Guide to Living
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    A Student's Guide to Living

    By Georgia Retikaukau

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    At 14 years old I had left home and high school. I was living on a $150 a
    week student allowance. I was useless in the kitchen and I knew absolutely
    nothing about the importance of keeping up with my bill payments. I became
    a student at a Hairdressing Academy and had to take out a $10,000 student
    loan to complete the course. I was the only one out of about 30 to get a
    hairdressing apprenticeship. I worked really hard towards finishing my
    diploma while working, which took me about three years. At the age of 17
    I was a senior hairdresser making a decent wage for a girl my age. After 4
    years of hairdressing I decided to have a career change. I took up a travel and
    tourism course, which focused on flight attending. I had always wanted to be
    a flight attendant.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris NZ
    Release dateApr 21, 2011
    ISBN9781456893248
    A Student's Guide to Living
    Author

    Georgia Retikaukau

    At 14 years old I had left home and high school. I was living on a $150 a week student allowance. I was useless in the kitchen and I knew absolutely nothing about the importance of keeping up with my bill payments. I became a student at a Hairdressing Academy and had to take out a $10,000 student loan to complete the course. I was the only one out of about 30 to get a hairdressing apprenticeship. I worked really hard towards finishing my diploma while working, which took me about three years. At the age of 17 I was a senior hairdresser making a decent wage for a girl my age. After 4 years of hairdressing I decided to have a career change. I took up a travel and tourism course, which focused on flight attending. I had always wanted to be a flight attendant. To me they were stunning women that travelled the world and lived extravagant lives. The type that people made way for and stopped to stare at when they walked past in their freshly pressed uniform pulling their onboard travel bags. I had to also take out another $11,000 loan for the course and worked part time as a waitress. On the year of my 19 birthday I became a long haul flight attendant. I will never forget the day they called me to say I had the job. There are no words to describe what it feels like to achieve a goal that seems so far beyond your reach. I worked as a flight attendant for about 3 years. I flew to so many beautiful places, meet extraordinary people and wined and dinned in grand hotels. It is an experience I will always be grateful for and never forget. At 24years old I am now married to a wonderful man named Julian who actually came up with the idea to write this guide along with our friend Sam Collins who was a University student for more than 4 years. It was at the time of hanging over in the supermarket after a good night out that they were both discussing cheap meal ideas and ways to cure hangovers. So I guess you could say this guide is a combined effort of 3 good friends who have learnt how to cook, rid random illnesses when weve been sick and had no spare cash for the doctors. Weve cured hangovers before exams and had fun with next to no money. I hope all the things we have learnt can now help you to get through your years as a student more comfortably and with minimal stress. You have an exciting journey ahead of you with many ups and downs. Make sure what you choose to study is what you really want to do. Student loans are no joke. We are all still paying ours off! And as the saying goes Being a student is like being on the dole except your parents are proud of you. We wish you all the best in your future; good luck, take care and most importantly have fun.

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      A Student's Guide to Living - Georgia Retikaukau

      A Student’s

      Guide to Living

      ________________

      Georgia Retikaukau

      Copyright © 2011 by Georgia Retikaukau.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

      0800-891-366

      www.xlibris.co.nz

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      CONTENTS

      Finding A Roommate

      Meal Ideas

      Daily House Keeping Checklist

      Cheap Ways To Have Fun

      Dating Advice

      Drinking Games

      How To Avoid A Hangover

      How To Stay Safe

      Homemade Products

      Home Remedies

      Random Tips

      Finding Part Time Work

      Budgeting Advice

      Time Management

      101 Quotes From The Wise Ones

      FINDING A ROOMMATE

      It is very important to find a roommate who you are compatible with and someone you know you can count on. You will both be sharing apart of your life together for at least the next year. Make sure you really think things through before moving in together as fallouts with your roomy can really affect your study and daily life. Here are some attributes for you to consider beforehand.

      Make sure that both you and they are . . .

      /   COMPATIBLE Ensure the person you choose to room with has similar likes and dislikes. i.e. smoking, types of friends, sleeping patterns etc. Make sure that their standard of cleanliness is similar to yours. You don’t want to be picking up after them all of the time or vice versa. It just leaves room for arguments.

      /   FRIENDLY You don’t have to be BFF’s or anything but at least like each other. You have to dine together, watch TV, share cleaning duties, discuss bill payments etc. So if you are not friendly towards one another, the whole living situation could become quite uncomfortable.

      /   TRUSTWORTHY You must be able to trust each other and the company you keep. There will be times when one of you will have friends over and your roommate is not around. You both have to trust that belongings are not being touched without each other’s permission. Everyone has to be capable of doing their fare share of the housework and paying the correct amount of money towards the living arrangements.

      /   COMMUNICATION Make sure that you can be open and honest with each other. If you are both able to talk things out straight away in a calm and sensible manner, it will work well. A lot of the time when arguments occur in living situations it is because someone is bottling up their feelings and not expressing how they feel when problems arise. Most of the time the other person is completely unaware. But by the time the issue is brought up, it comes out with anger and frustration. Which always ends up being completely blown out of proportion.

      /   RESPECT Respect each other’s space and property. If you know your roommate has to study, don’t invite friends over, or decided to clean the house with the music blasting. If anything, try going out to give them peace and quiet. This saves arguments and they will hopefully return the favour.

      /   COOPERATION Make sure you can both meet each other half way when

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