Last time I ended describing my Thursday, so, logically, Friday is up next. Had a normal day at work with Russian breakfast this time around. One of my colleague supervisors is Russian, and so are three of the room attendants. Yes, three of them, as Kate and Lana were not fired after all, so it seems, but just expelled for a short time. The breakfast ended with some rewards. All nametags of the room attendants were placed in a big box, and both Joseph, the Human Resource Director, who is responsible for hiring us here at this very hotel, and John S., the Rooms Division Director, got to pick a nametag. The first tag would hold the name of the woman (no male room attendants) who'd win a two-day stay at the Hilton in Orlando, Florida. Have a quick guess who won this?
Right, Kate! I'm actually glad she's not gone by the way, she's the cutest of them all, and speaks English, unlike a huge batch of Latinas. I'm learning new words in Spanish every day, and that's also fun, but sometimes quite hard when things need to be done instantly.
That Friday, actually, I also needed to see if one of the room attendants found something in one of the rooms she cleaned, as a guest claimed he left something there. Tried explaning that in several ways and means, together with Bob from Security, but nothing of that seemed to work, so we gave up when she gave us a found item of the room she was currently in. We figured that if she found more, in the room we needed, she'd have also given that.
Second prize given away was some purse.
The day at work was just easy, for the most part, as I also needed to do some Houseman work next to it. Making sure all floors are stocked with all the right linen etc., as I explained in the previus entry. I really admire the guys that do this daily, because I had huge difficulties, keeping apart the King and Queen sheets and other material that looks alike. I wonder if I'd ever be able to keep them apart, but I won't be doing that that often anyway. I hope.
Straight after work, Yatha, Georgi and myself went off to a meeting with people from the home owners committee of the compound (gated society) we will be renting our house in. We dressed up in suits, for all the right reasons (Yatha was at work and was wearing his own already anyway) to find two people in shorts and polos near the swimming pool of the compound, but well!
We signed agreements stating the houserules, which are all common sense rules anyway. And honestly, the place just looks too neat to even want to make it look or sound bad there. Walked in suits until we finally were able to get hold of a cab. Willie (as his permit in the front of the car told) drove us back to the hotel.
Watched some episode of Greek and then went to a garden party at the place Marten, Tommy and Marinka are staying in. They're the other Dutch students there that started half a year ago, I think I said that somewhere before, right? And also that they've got a big garden?
Anyway, we had a party there with drinks, a barbecue again, and plenty of cool people from the hotel. Got home at 2:30 to find that the keys weren't working anymore, as there was some electronic failure earlier that day. Had security open my room and waited for Bart to come home, meanwhile completing a new song in Fruity Loops. I named that song after the theme of a conversation I had with Bellman Robert Huntley. For some reason I accepted what he said, as it was too spiritual and far-fetched to me to completely support it, but it was fun to think about it during the talk in general. Robert is a great guy by the way, he'll show my some of his paintings soon, as that's his hobby, so we also got to talk about artists in general, which was good.
Bart got here at 3:15 and we went to bed.
This saturday we had our Annual Team Member Summer Picnic. Went to Hugh Taylor Birch State Park, just around the corner, basically. I feel bad for not taking my camera today, as it's a beautiful park. I'll go there some other day soon, and take photos so I can share the scenery.
There was plenty of food throughout the day. Hamburgers, sausages, chicken, watermelon, salads and a lot of cold drinks, ranging from mineral water to coke, sprite and even Gatorade.
We needed the Gatorade as a lot of sports activities were planned for the day.
We started off with a game of soccer, first time we managed to play half an hour, but everyone got drained. The weather today was hot around here, and it's hard to be active all the time under those circumstances.
After a 20 minute break we went to play another, 15 minute, match. Had lunch after that, with some good hamburgers and chicken. Next up; volleybal. There was a sandy place with a volleybal net present. The sand hurt my eyes so I was glad I could borrow women's sunglasses from Marinka to make it possible to play in the first place. Won all matches except for the last one we played. By that time I had spent quite some hours in the sun, and I could feel my calves being sunburnt already. By that time we still needed to play Flag Football. American Football without tackles, but ribbons around your waste instead. When someone takes one of the ribbons, it counts as a proper tackle, and the play is stopped there.
Was fun, but I didn't understand much of the Football part in general. Ah well!
In general, it's been a great day there, with a lot of people from Housekeeping, a lot of people I've talked with before, and the guys I played indoor soccer with earlier. Good day out that we (Bart and I) ended with a small ocean visit.
Took a shower and have been putting lotion on my calves ever since, trying to have it ease. Also, you can see the outlines of my shirt at my neck and arms. Front and back. I've got some colour on me. I'll just go easy the next 2/3 days and I should be able to hit the sun again, I guess.
Tomorrow, I'll be seeing Finch, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Tickle Me Pink and Our Last Night in The Culture Room, about 4 miles from here, together with Caner, one of the Turkish guys working in housekeeping. Caner is our standard runner. He's a great guy, so I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy the time there. Should be great!
I have both a photo and a video for you all. The photo was taken right before I wrote this blog. The moon casting it's light on the ocean, reflecting (6 seconds shutter time, for those interested).
By the way, the photo is also in the picasa photo album of Week Two.
And for a video, to complete the celestial theme, not another moon view, but Dredg's "Ode To The Sun", live in great quality.
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