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Reizigersweblog van Jaron
Eerste Week
Na een week heb ik dan eindelijk internet!! Ik zit inmiddels in een ander huis maar ik zal nog even verslag doen van de afgelopen week! Ik doe het in het Engels als het niet al te vervelend voor jullie is! Na 1 week kost het me al zoveel moeite om Nederlands te praten!
First Things first:
I arrived at Bournemouth airport having no idea whether I was going to be picked up or if I needed to find my own way to 7 Hayes Avenue?! Apparently the latter because there was no one waiting for me at the airport! Right, got a taxi and arrived at the house 10 pounds later!
7 Hayes Avenue:
The family was very nice. Very much not what I expected them to be, old. Instead they were very young indeed. They had two children of 6 and 8, Thomas & Megan and two dogs called Maddy and Daniel. I only took pictures of the dogs I’m afraid! The father, Trevor, owns a limo company so there was usually a very nice stretch parked in front of the house!!
My room was quite big and pretty clean which cannot be said from the rest of the house. Some of you might have seen a standard British household on the tv show ‘Jou Vrouw Mijn Vrouw’ and it looked just like that. I took a picture of the garden! Unfortunately, the pictures I make with my phone are too big to put on here...
Furthermore I had school this week! Only a 45 min walk everyday (and back again of course)! Twenty lesson of the Work Preparation course which taught me all about the English Silver Service! Apparently they serve food from the left!? Strange people, their elbows are all over the guest’s face if you ask me! Anyway, with my wide experience working in restaurants and bars this course was a piece of cake.
Caution: the following piece may contain bragging and/or self-centred and even arrorant language.
Last Thursday the teacher said I would be better off teaching the course itself instead of taking it! He seriously offered to talk to the director if I could teach next year! That was pub night and I spoke to the director (before karaoke) and he said I could apply for a job next year if I wanted to!! Also at the beginning of the week, there was a small English language test to see in which class (level) you were to be placed. Of the 80 question I still managed to get 2 wrong!! Hmm, I believe I was in the advanced level but luckily I didn’t have the language course.
Right, sorry about that!
People I’ve met:
My roommate is a very nice young man from Turkey named Emir. We played a lot of poker together with the other students in the house.
This is Naomi, Emir and Manuelle! Sorry for the poor quality pic!
There were six, three boys and three girls.
In my class there was a nice German girl called Sophie. I tended to hang out with her because the rest of the class (2 people) was very boring indeed.
In the summer, there's fireworks at the pier every Friday!It was very nice, there were thousands of people on the beach, cliff and promenade!!
I went out three times this week! There are plenty of clubs and pubs in Bournemouth all packed with drunk brits and very slutty dressed English "birds" Its amazing, they really go clubbing half naked!! I took a picture to show it but unfortunately I was too drunk to keep my phone still long enough!! Anyway:
This weekend I went to the beach twice with Sophie and Emir and I’m going this afternoon as well! I’m very fortunate with the weather. Yesterday it was 27 degrees! Unbelievable! Hopefully it will stay like this for some time!!
1 Deans Road:
So I moved to a different house which is even further from the city centre and the Hotel I’ll be working at. It is closer to the beach (5 min walk) however which is a good thing!
I share my room with Anton, a rather strange guy from Sweden. He's very quiet now but I'm positive that he'll come round. We have to get used to each other though, he's also staying for 3 months!
We share the apartment with two very ugly (because Esther will also read this) Polish girls. They are very kind but they work all day long. So will I this week but I’ll come to that later.
The apartment is very nice. We have a broken TV (everybody’s all blue), a laundry machine! (which takes 2 hours to finish), a computer with internet!, an ironing board + iron, a bathroom and a rather peculiar kitchen I don’t want to examine to carefully. I spend 1,5 hours yesterday killing all the bugs in the cutlery drawer!! I hope I got them all! So it should be alright now!
The Britannia Hotel Bournemouth:
So tomorrow I start work. My main job is that of a bar person (barman upsets women apparently) and because the hotel is very quiet at the moment I also get to move the furniture around whenever I’m asked to do so!
I work from 3 o’clock in the afternoon until finish which is midnight! That’s 9 hours a day, 5 days a week for GBP 5,35 per hour! Which means I’ll be making around 375,- euros a week! And the manager of the hotel has already said to me that if I would like to work more, I could also work one or two days at another branch of the hotel chain which is also in Bournemouth! So hopefully, I’ll come home a rich man.
Also, he said that in September, staff is allowed to use the Hotel’s indoor, heated swimming pool! I think I’m going to like it here!!
I think my laundry is almost ready so I’ll hang it out to dry and then I’m off to the beach!!
Geplaatst op: 27-08-2007 | 16:19 Lokale tijd
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