Today, I am working Evening Reception and it is very slow. I have about 1 hour and 45 minutes left. I'm still training, but I had my very first check-in tonight. They spoke some English but I really need to brush-up on my German. I was bothering the German staff members to try and remember what words were, but I feel bad asking them all the time. This experience has really made me what to get back to studying German and then hopefully learn another language. I'm really jealous of the people that come through and can speak 3 or 4 languages. Maybe one day I will get that good, although I do have trouble sometimes with the 1 language I already speak, so we'll just have to see.
Since I don't really have a lot to do tonight, I think I'll just ramble on for a little while. One thing I'm still not used to is getting online and seeing all adds in Dutch or using Excel (or any other program) and it being in Dutch. I'm so glad I've used Excel, Word, and Adobe so much, because most of the time I'm just trying to remember what it's supposed to say in English; and then it gets difficult when I try and help other people. It's just a really weird feeling.
Tomorrow is my day off and I have no idea what I want to do. I really want to go somewhere, but I'm not sure where. I would like to get out of the city. Last week on my day off, a group of us went to Utrecht; which is another city south of Amsterdam. It was such a pretty place and the atmosphere is just so much different from Amsterdam. It looked like such a cute European town. So I'm hoping to do something cool like that again tomorrow; I just have to figure out where.
Well I guess that was a lot. Hopefully time will go by quickly. :)
Sounds like fun! Hope you had a great day off!
ReplyDeleteSome suggestions: Scheveningen is a great coastal town with a beach. It may be a little further away than you plan to travel in a day. I also love Rotterdam! they have a great park with a viewing tower that you can see the whole harbor and the Erasmus bridge.
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