Work Experience

This week has really been a massive eye opener for me. Maddison Brett and I did our work placement at Billabong with the Marketing Coordinator, Nadia Anderson. At the start of the week we read over a few proposals and fixed up some insurance and then we were asked to plan a promotion photo shoot to win a free trip to Bali, That afternoon we went to the Billabong store to choose some clothes for the shot and at 4:30 on Tuesday morning we set off to Nusa Dua to film for the day. A few of Billabongs sponsored surfers came with us and we ended up back at another beach called 'Halfway' because the surf was a lot better there.

Over the next few days I wrote an account about our film/photo shoot for the Billabong blog, went to a meeting at the Denpasar warehouse regarding a family day for the workers and got some sponsors for a few events like the City Squared Asia skating event.

Towards the end of the week Billabong sponsored a Javanese boy named Febri who is a really good little surfer. We took him to the shop to pick up his sponsorship package, which included clothing, surf wear and accessories and he was over the moon.

Working at Billabong in the Marketing department has been really fun. It has given me a sense of direction with where I want to go in life career wise and I would jump at the chance to do it again. 

Madii and I at Nusa Dua

Mid-year holidays


My holidays were amazing. It started off with a 3-week trip to Australia with the parents. The flight there was horrible, but it was really nice to get off the plane into some fresh air. As soon as I got back it was straight into catching up with everyone mode. It was so good to see everyone and I had the best 3 weeks there. I basically just hung around and caught up with everyone with the occasional surf for the first 10 days. Then after that I was just cruising around with a few of my really close friends, surfing and seeing family.

It was good but weird being back in Australia. I was basically living at everyone’s houses out of my suitcase and it felt like I was just on a holiday where I knew everyone. It didn’t really feel like home. Don’t get me wrong it was great but just, you know that feeling.

After Australia we flew back to Bali via KL. I spent a few days catching up on some much needed, missed sleep and then I went and hung with Reo, for the rest of the holidays, which was about 2 weeks. During that time I also caught up with a few friends from Aus who were over here on holidays and had some fun. So overall my holidays were pretty good.