fix

My female owner is in a fix… sort of. Before she went over to Brisbane, she booked a return flight to Singapore for 23 June.

Now, it’s evident that she can’t go back on 23 June because she has a make-or-break assessment on that day. If she breaks, she has to redo her entire internship before she can move on to the next internship. That means being out of sync (by one semester) with the pace of the programme. She also has an assignment due on 30 Jun (but she can always submit it in earlier).

As for her internship, she has to clock 100 hours, of which she has about 10 hours. Given that end of June is about 8 weeks away, that means 90 hours in 8 weeks. That’s 11 hours of client contact hours a week. She has just started seeing clients, which means that she is unable to hit 11 hours/ week for the time being. If you get lost in the maths, that just means that she won’t be able to get 100 hours until early July.

My female owner wants to go back to Singapore in July, because it’s her father’s 60th birthday (plus she wants to meet all her friends, esp this particular friend who would be flying off to US soon). It may be possible for her to squeeze out 10-14 days to return home (it really depends on how her internship progresses) but her mother thinks that’s it’s not worth it. The air-ticket costs about $1600 now. My female owner needs to decide soon (in the midst of all the ambiguity) because she needs to book an air-ticket and of course, change the initial booking.

What do you think? Should she make plans to return? We turtles hope that she would, coz we miss her, and she stocked up enough food to last us only till June.