Beginner's luck

Indeed, I got hired at the opera house. I could never have guessed that my first job application ever would be so easy, but it was. I was quite nervous for the interview, but it went very smoothly - no weird questions to test my knowledge about the opera house, and even speaking French went surprisingly well after not speaking it at all for three years.

Also, my interviewers were not exactly intimidating (by which I mean nothing bad) seeing as they were two nice girls of barely a few years older than me (I would later find out that they were indeed 26 and 27 or thereabouts). I was supposed to go for a second interview with the head of department a while later, but that got cancelled and I just got hired right away. (Looking back I am glad it did get cancelled, as the head of department is actually a French lady, and it would have been a lot more stressful to have to do everything in French rather than switching between that and Dutch).

So I got hired, for a four-month period, September to December. This meant I could start my summer holidays without having to be stressed about finding a job. And of course I was very excited to find out what the opera house would be like. What is also very convenient, is that I could make the internship count for a number of ECTS for a Cutural Studies master's degree. I was not planning to really do the degree this year, but by doing the internship already, I could keep the official status of 'student', which makes things a lot easier when it comes to administration and all that jazz.

Sounds like a lot of beginner's luck all at once, right? I think so too. Must be good karma. I hope it's not all downhill from here for the rest of the year.