It’s Getting Real

The placement is in an agency called the Multi-Cultural Family Base, which is a Social Work Children & Families service with focus on BME (black and minority ethnic) families, new migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Even though I always believed I never wanted to work in Children and Families, I’m slowly but surely starting to change my mind and my perception of the field. While it was a slow start for the first two days and I didn’t have much to do apart from reading books, drinking tea and writing this blog post, that quickly changed on Wednesday as I’ve been allocated my first case. I got two overflowing files of documents regarding the case, which took me an entire day to look through and study and I cannot wait to meet the service user and start working with them.

In other news, I applied for a volunteer scheme offered by our university’s Residence Life (ResLife), which gives Resident Assistants (RAs) a chance to learn more about the Warden role—there is a Warden placed on each university site, who oversees the RA team and is in direct communication with the central ResLife team. As I am slowly but surely coming to the end of my 3rd year of university and I will have to start thinking about applying for Masters soon, I thought it was a good idea to undergo this ‘training’ if I decided to stay in Edinburgh for my postgraduate studies as well and wanted to apply for the Warden position as you are provided with a free accommodation as part of the job, which would make it much easier on me in terms of finances. As part of the scheme I get to sit in at meetings, shadow different Wardens, etc. though the thing I am most excited about is having a chance to interview students who applied to be RAs next year as I’d say I have plenty of experience with being an interviewee, but I’ve never been in the position of the interviewer, which just seems a lot more fun!

Well then, now that I’ve updated you on my very (scary) adult life, I’m going to do some very (scary) adult work and talk to you in a few months’ time with more updates.