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MY BIRTHDAY!!!!
I wasn't sure how I would find today being away from home on my birthday but in the end had a great day and everyone has been fantastic in making the day special!
After opening my cards, Nik decorated the hotel room with them before we headed off for the 8am start of orientation day 1. At that stage we were unsure what that would involve but have been very impressed with the organisation on VIFs part since our arrival.
Throughout the day, word seemed to spread about my birthday and everywhere I went people were greeting me and I even had cards from a a few people including my VIF advisor Beth Perry.
Meetings at orientation then began and were constant throughout the day. They included .... so much paper work!!! Most of us really do not have a clue about what we have signed we've signed that many pieces of paper!!
The day was very long and then we had very little time to prepare ourselves for a formal dinner to meet different VIF representatives.
Before heading there though, Shelly, Becky and Sally, arrived at our room with a bottle of champagne to celebrate my birthday!! Nik was in on it too and little to my knowledge there was more to come.
After the formal$ dinner, most of us went down to sit in the hotel bar when Nik and Shelly turned up in the hotel bar with a birthday cake and card from Nik too. Everyone sang and it was just great to think that these people who I'd known less than 24 hours had gone to so much effort to make my birthday so special!
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