 Hi buddy! Welcome to my vlog. I'm Matthew, I'm 19 and I'm a first year journalism student. So welcome to the festive vlog for Christmas week. I don't know what to expect from this week at all. I don't really have them planned. I'm in work tomorrow and Christmas Eve. I had an obviously off Christmas day and then I'm in season today. So I'll be showing you my way of getting into work. Well I'm going to my grandparents and I'll be going in a while in a bit. I need to get a drink for Christmas since I won't have time in the next few days so I'm planning on getting a good bit. For people who may not have slept in my course they're so used to seeing me on my bed here but no I have now got a chair as you can see. I'm actually going to do a story time later on about a saga I had over the last couple of weeks with this chair and the desk this fella is currently sitting on right now. So basically I'm going to go home to my grandparents now. For anyone who's like in my journalism course they'll see my nana because she's on my pro-propectoring on zoom so they pretty much know who it is but for anyone who doesn't know you might have seen this article it was on the meets Chronicle it was on the I think it was the Irish Sun as well was the other one. For her 19th birthday back in May obviously we were supposed to have a big kind of reunion a family reunion that didn't happen so instead we got neighbors together like kind of an outdoor gathering kind of thing and it's obviously safely socially distanced you know yourself and the guardie came and we were like oh god we're screwed you know they're going to break up these gatherings and all that you just don't know what's going to happen but instead they brought up a bouquet of flowers and a cart but it's like oh okay so that's what that article is there for basically thanking the guardie for that because that was that was amazing to see that happen. So we're planning on FaceTiming my uncle who's in Australia that'll be my nan and my grandad's son yeah see how that goes. Yeah you have a good say to humour you have a good say to humour yeah there's nothing like it. Right just go back from the shops and the grandparents and all that so that was you would have seen there my nan would have sent to humour um no I'll explain she has that same where she's had it for the past six years now and obviously you know she's a predator of that kind of thing so that's like normal kind of conversation to work so I mean we just kind of we just kind of go along with it really in a way we can't really stop it then obviously after grandparents we went to shops yeah I had to say it's went done big queue like waiting outside but then like I don't know they don't do like a one in one out kind of thing in Tesco then in Duns instead it's like they let five people out and five people in it doesn't make sense really you should just do the one person in one person out kind of thing that makes sense I don't have to wait you for longer you know because then we were in the line and then just people around me like you know coming around the door seeing the queue and being like yeah I'm just going to go in anyway and there's no one stopping them let's go with story time because I think story time is needed now regarding this chair here and the desk here so basically I got these off like here I bought it the start of November online it was the 10th of November and then I had to sit there and then pick the delivery date the first of December I picked the earliest one I could possibly pick so it was about three weeks waiting so I was like all right Grant got everything sorted out ready to go cleared out all the space to make sure it's ready to go first of December comes and I only get the desk I was like oh great no chair no back support because literally for the whole first semester I was here on my bed for all my lectures like literally with minimal back support so then I was like eventually getting this desk goes like all right okay Grant at least I'll have a chair for a bit of back support and no no chair so I rang up IKEA literally that day and they said oh yeah there's there's delays coming from the UK because like they're locked down at the time they were still locked in the UK was still locked in and over Christmas you know huge like huge friends deliveries so it's like okay fair enough they said to be here a week after a week after comes and it's still not here they said on the thursday or friday so this was a tuesday so thursday or friday I could have rang and then get a tracking number I did so and it was no tracking number they said no it might be the week after okay it's kind of keeps rolling over I've called them so so many times I don't even know and then on about maybe the 10th 11th time with me calling I'm not even joking then the guy says oh yeah uh deliveries have been dispatched from Dublin because originally the chair was coming from the UK but then it turned out that the chair was in stuck in Dublin the whole time they couldn't take it from there so it's like do it from there and then they're like okay we'll do that I went I went full on Karen then I said here I want to speak to a manager I want to speak to a supervisor I was put on hold for 15 minutes and there was no manager supervisor shot so I was like oh great okay so then maybe two days after that again there was a knock in the door it's the chair without any notice that it was on the way so that was on the thursday then on the saturday two days later there was another knock in the door and you'd never believe what it is yes another chair a second chair like where do you get that like like a wash like why did I get a second chair like why why did I get a second chair I don't get that I read okay why I got a second chair seriously I don't care I'm keeping it I don't care I'm keeping it yeah that's that's story time for you the morning I should go up it is Wednesday morning it is like five past eight in the morning because I'm in work at 10 o'clock so yeah I am very tired but yeah we're at Christmas jumper because for the whole week we're at the where Christmas jumper set to work but so you may be wondering where I am working pennies yeah I work in pennies in city centre so uh whoahoo right I'm on the way to the bus stop now because um you know living in me is having to get to Dublin I have to get a bus and sadly it's bus airing and with my bus it's the 103 103 bus it's the most unreliable bus that has ever existed that's that's really um bus airing's motto it's just bus airing just late bus is that literally it oh so I just realized there that um yesterday was Christmas Eve Eve Eve today is Christmas Eve Eve and tomorrow is Christmas Eve and then December 25th is Christmas day men's wear is like my section my department so like I basically know a good bit about menswear anyway so I have 15 minutes now until I start my shift so I've got my bit ready to go I know I'm just going to head in now to the locker rooms and uh then clock in at 10 o'clock yeah I'll be back on then during my lunch at sea or if not when I'm finished at half six it's fun go home finish the half six I also got a bus like it was like quarter past seven so I was fine a lot happened today a lot to unpack literally so first I literally got in here and uh got post I've been waiting for this for ages I know exactly what it is and I was hoping it would be here sooner but it's here now so I'm okay with it Michael Scott the office says a happy birthday Jesus sorry your party's so lame yeah so now the other thing a couple of weeks ago in pennies like they they'd usually do the employee at the quarter and all the kind of thing but they never got to do it this year since like you know 2020 you know been gone the whole thing in nine instead they started doing hero of the year so people were able to vote on who they kind of thought you know was brought in like you know was kind of light of positivity into the place enthusiasm you know just improved everyone's day really basically what they did was everyone voted but I don't know like the amount of staff I think it's a couple of hundred anyway and most of them voted I hope so but and they did like a top five kind of thing and I'm one of the top five so I I'm actually shocked yeah I got this today and started work so that really made my day actually like got me going for today it was great I haven't opened it so I'm going to open it now and see what's in it I'm very much looking forward to this so first got a voucher for pennies where who then I got these six hanging decorations very nice mold your own snowman the little ornament well it's cute isn't it well a milkshake gift set so it's the jar vanilla flavor milkshake mix rainbow sugar strands mini marshmallows and chocolate sandwich cookies damn they're all things you would find in the Christmas shop in pennies in all fairness I absolutely love working in pennies it is it's it's great I love it like I've been there since January January you know June of last year so it's like 18 months and honestly I don't think I could have found a better place to work for obviously my college years obviously made so many great friends at the same time it's incredible I absolutely love it it's the fact that people voted for me for this people actually thought of me for this for making their 2020 that bit better like when they're good when they come into work like I'd love to know who voted for me and why anyway yeah I'm back in now tomorrow Christmas Eve half 10 to 7 luckily I'm I'm on the same shift as one of my best friends Scott definitely looking forward to tomorrow Christmas Eve being able to wear this jumper this jumper also before I forget as well so it's the 23rd of December you might see it from my wall here this is basically like in my australia wall I have a huge obsession with australia because I have family there like you will see obviously you know my nana talking to my uncle in australia they live in sydney uh yesterday they obviously had they haven't been home since september of last year so it's been a long long time since I've actually seen them in person I was supposed to I'm supposed to go over in july but anyway back to this 23rd of december 2018 we went we arrived in sydney for Christmas and it's now of course 23rd of december 2020 so two years since I was in australia to go back right now I just would love to I would love to go back and people may think as well it takes 21-22 hours to get there it's a seven hour it's somewhere in the middle east like Qatar or Dubai or Abu Dhabi and then a 14 hour straight to sydney now people have said this to me that she is how do you cope with it but like they have seats like here there they have the seats obviously they have seats but they have TVs there like literally in front of you you're able to watch movies all the time you um you can get wi-fi on there like honestly you can just chill out and you get free food you get your meals are free and then you get treats along the way that kind of thing it's just great and the seats are so comfy you can easily sleep it's so shit but like I can't go over and it's so shit as well because I miss my uncle I miss my aunts and my two cousins alfina euros like Evie Rose I've never actually met her she was born a year ago actually the 14th of december a year ago and I haven't seen her I haven't I've never seen her in person I've never got to hold her and she's one now and I've never got to hold her when she was a baby and I've just come into blocking I have never saw her so it's shit it's shit but what can you do we have FaceTime we have all that kind of thing obviously it's not the same but you know I mean when hard times come you have to make you have to work around things and I mean FaceTime is that work around but we have to make do all we have because literally we have no other option so right so um I didn't do any film at all this morning um literally I got back well and what time is it now it's five to nine like I so almost half 10 to seven today the last day obviously before christmas christmas eve a happy christmas eve woohoo it's it feels very strange because so I was supposed to finish at seven and usually every christmas eve they let people go early go home early because we've closed at six so then obviously there's just an hour cleanup afterwards and usually every christmas eve obviously it's so quiet that like you know we get everything done and it's kind of christmas eve that and it's christmas eve and new year's day that we're usually a lot of early events done so this was my first christmas eve ever in pennies like last christmas eve I didn't work in in one of my best friends Dean was his fourth he was his fourth and he said every time I've obviously you know been let home early but it'd been like you know 10-15 minutes before he had the shift so I was like oh okay fair enough this time it was 33 minutes before that it was 6 27 when literally came through the intercom in like yeah you can go home by it was like oh grant okay Dean literally said that was the earliest and that we ever left yeah so I was on department 16 which is basically the pajamas all the men's pajamas underwear socks that kind of thing but it was very easy though like I was with deal Scott my my like my two main best friends we literally were in the same section together so it was brilliant like it was a handy day it really was we'll see now what happens tomorrow hey it's basically right so I got I got um clothes off sheen for christmas and then my mom said she'd get me a surprise oh I didn't know that you take this by the way is this by the way is by little sister Laura don't call me a little sister but you are my little sister I remember you did a look I'm probably gonna end this out why it's like to you think off all over you oh oh ho ho ho merry christmas right hello everyone um merry christmas it's uh what time is it now it's 7 35 p.m and christmas day I'd have had dinner obviously my older sister had a few games sorted out because usually every year I have them done I've got quiz kind of that kind of stuff teams kind of stuff this year this year I was like you know what it's 2020 let's change it up a bit so my older sister did it yeah that was that was don't go cracked to be honest I only thought I'm opening my the last two days of my adventurer this morning so we got my lint center so wow for christmas then I got I don't know what my parents are trying to say I got an electric toothbrush so I don't know what they're trying to say I got a pack of rubber and aftershave oh yes my sister got me a pillow and yeah you know I had the michael's got thing and then the christmas jumper here's the pillow very little bit even just looking at it on the camera just like yes this is great um I absolutely love this I love them I love michael's mom then like I wanted kind of stuff that was like to help like do up my room because obviously you know I got a desk and chair so then I was like you know I want stuff to do at my room so I got that this kind of like cave kind of work and I do everything so I can put my MacBook on top here and have my two drawers here this is like great and then my mom and dad got me a shelvin unit for my wall yeah so it was a cool christmas definitely enjoyed it and very different compared to others like I mean having to bloody social lists for my grandparents Jesus Christ you'd never think I'd have to do that it's just it doesn't feel natural at all that's the thing yeah I'm going to finish up the vlog today yeah I really enjoyed doing this vlog I really have um I mean like I've been editing the vlog every day and I mean I am sorry that it was so like I know previous vlogs were only like up to 10 minutes long and then I'm just covering kind of one thing I was like you know what if it's a vlog you haven't heard two different days you have to kind of do your whole week kind of things so I was like yeah I didn't think it was going to be this long like I know it was in 20 odd minutes when I finished on me actually so uh apologies if you got if you got to this point congratulations I'm very proud of you I move you I've never really used on my MacBook and I definitely got a few skills out of it so I'm very very very delighted about that hopefully in the near future you'll be seeing me more on DCU TV and YouTube channel possibly you'll be to see UFM again I was on a radio show and I choose it at 1 a.m but that stopped during Christmas so I don't know what's happening in semester two I have couldn't pull through plans for a semester two I don't know if I'm going to do a radio show but possibly a year or two I might but I'll see what happens thanks very much for watching see ya