I was fortunate enough to be able to spend my time at the Property Registration Authority with a friend, so even before I arrived (40 minutes early) I knew it couldn't be that bad.
We were first greeted by my friend's aunt, Mary, and brought to the mail room where we were showed how to fill out the corresponding forms and such. There was a lot of stamping involved, and I couldn't use the letter opener (I swear to god, it isn't as easy as it looks), but it was actually quite enjoyable as the people down there were incredibly friendly and patient.
After a brief coffee break, Mary brought us upstairs to meet with Lenny and Stephen, where we were taught how to enter all of the relevant information from lodgements and folios into the database. It was relatively easy, but I'd be lying if I said I actually understood everything that was being said. Even still, I quite enjoyed it, and had the pleasure of meeting even more nice staff members.
After lunch we were taken on a short tour of the four courts and some of the history was explained to us by a man called James. I'd never been there, but it was architecturally very beautiful and had a fascinating past.
The last order of business of the day involved more stamping and stapling, but this time we were officially allowed to sign forms as we're authorized members for the next few weeks. It'd be a lie to say that I didn't get some odd satisfaction out of that.
All in all, my first day was really quite enjoyable, and I look forward to returning next week.
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In other news, we were away last week at the BT Young Scientist Exhibition in the RDS, which really helped in breaking up the week. The projects were all admirable and interesting, the food overpriced but edible, and the area crowded and noisy, but the best part of the day for me was randomly finding out that a close friend of mine (and past pupil of the school) was presenting there. That kinda distracted me from browsing the displays, but I spent a fair amount of time meandering along after lunch.
