House vs. Hurricane

Finally, there’s some proper weather to distort the perfect image of the sunshine state. As it is right now, it’s pouring outside, lightning and thunder all over the place, and when it hits every so often, it sounds like there’s a bomb going off. The temperature in the house has finally come to an acceptable level, as for some reason the airconditioning will not do the best job ever. Fans on the ceiling to their work at night to let you sleep, but still.
I’ll add two or three rainy pictures to the photo album, even though they were extremely hard to take for some reason. I tried a few options, but never really succeeded.

Back to where I ended things last time. Friday. Bart and I still had to work, as schedules were changed somewhere along the way. The day was quite busy on my part, and I didn’t feel all too well. My body was pretty drained and I felt extremely warm most of the time, a bit like the fever. Decided to just keep working anyway, and switch free days with Bart. He would have Saturday off, and I would have Sunday, but we switched that around. So, yay for flexible housemates. That Friday night we had Volkan over at the house. Volkan is one of the Turkish guys (just like Caner, see the Finch blog) who works in housekeeping. He’s a houseman, you know, the job I couldn’t do because I couldn’t distinguish all the different kinds of sheets etc. Yatha and Georgi were working that night, so Bart, Volkan and I quickly did some groceries after which I made some hamburgers according to my mum’s recipe. Ate them outside on the patio with the three of us and just did some talking and socializing in general, before Volkan headed home a little after 10, and Bart and I spent some time behind computers. Yatha and Georgi still slept in the hotel that night, for the last time.

Saturday was my day off, but just like all the others, no chance to really sleep in. They came to collect the garbage around 7:45, and I happen to live at the side of the collection (it’s looking towards the inside of the gated compound though, whereas Bart and Yatha look out to the main street (15th)).
Managed to get back to a light sleep and didn’t get out of bed until 9:45, when no one was around anymore as Bart went to work, and the others were still at the hotel. Took my time to unpack all my suitcases when Georgi and Yatha came in to do some groceries for the house (we have now decided to do collective cooking and cleaning groceries twice a week or so, and everyone can just get their private drinks, fruits and snacks across the street at Publix supermarket whenever they want) and we also went to Home Depot to get some cleaning utilities and additional house keys so that everyone now has their own pair. The boys then went to cook their spaghetti meal. I decided to wait with the pasta until Bart came home from work so we could cook for the both of us. Made some spaghetti with chicken, parmesan cheese and some tomato sauce. Watched some Saturday Night Live DVD while eating and took it easy for the rest of the night. I managed to complete a song of mine in FL Studio again, and I have uploaded it to YouTube right HERE. If you go there, there are lyrics in the description to the right (click “more info” in the box on the right to get a little story and the lyrics itself). Went to bed around 11:30 as I had to get up at 7 this morning to start my day. Heard Georgi come in, though he was very careful to not make a sound. Can’t remember anything else from that night, I must have dozed off straight away again.

This Sunday I had to work as a Runner in the hotel, the guy who delivers all the requested goods to the guests. Had a nice and easy morning with ten calls between 8 and 11:30. And then all calls stopped. Nothing else for the remainder of the day! I had been reorganizing and refilling things in the first floor storage all along already, so it started to get quite boring. Later that shift I went to check some rooms and evaluate the work done by the ladies cleaning. Went home by bike, just like I arrived there this morning. It’s a little different from getting into the elevator and being there, but the 12-15 minute ride isn’t all that bad. I’ll get used to that. Found Georgi and Bart at home, as I had already seen Yatha at work. Discussed my possible transfer to F&B with quite a few people today, and I’m getting my hopes up slightly. I really don’t want to set my mind on that just yet, because it might be disappointing if I don’t go, but I just can’t help it.
The guys are watching a movie downstairs and I am typing this and I just watched an episode of Eureka. Ate some Honeydew melon (how come I never saw those in Holland? They’re good!) and had some good old Ben&Jerry’s after that to complete my mail. Want to make some pitabread with curry chicken tomorrow, and I’ll see whoever joins.
Speaking of tomorrow, I need to start working in the laundry, just organizing all the uniforms and the stocking of towels and such. I’ll soon start to read up on my contracts and such to see if there’s any way for me to get out of that if they sign me up for another week of laundry, and it also helps me think of the move to F&B, possibly. I’d rather be in Stewarding (dishwashing) instead of laundry like this.
I know I already linked you to another YouTube video (my own) but I still want to share another thing with you. Here’s House vs Hurricane with “Forfeiture”. The first part of the song might not appeal to a lot of people, but at least check out the last minute of the song where they go all techno. Reminds me of Enter Shikari in a way, and it’s so weird that it’s cool.