Sorry

For taking so long to post an update. I wish I had the time to write more, but over the last few days I've had things to do at night, or problems with the internet that kept me from posting anything big at all.
I have six days to cover, and at the end I have the song "Sorry" from Nick Black's debut album Hollow. I know the sorry in that song isn't quite the same as what I'm trying to say, but the title fits and I love it. So yeah.

Friday, the day after the indoor soccer I mentioned last, was the last day I could see Caner, one of the friends I made in the first weeks, the guy who accompanied me to the Finch concert and has just been a great person all around. His training/working period here in the States was over, and he had to go back to Turkey for educational purposes. I didn't get a chance to say goodbye that day, however, as we went to pick up the paychecks earlier than planned, to then pay another month of rent straight away, before Georgi and I went off to West Palm Beach. Georgi bought his car at a dealer over there and had to pick up extra keys. After I checked out quite a few lovely cars out there in the dealer store (took my time to sit down in the grey Audi R8 they had in the showroom. Surprisingly spaceous, really), we drove around the city for a bit, checking out the main boulevard and getting some dinner at a place between the main streets and Lake Worth there. Took some pictures all over, with my iPhone, and uploaded them at the photobook you should all be familiar with by now.
I'll add descriptions to all photos so you can see how, why and what. I'm actually glad I went to that dealer with him as I wouldn't want to have missed the sights of West Palm Beach and just rejuvenate over there instead of doing nothing at home instead.

On Saturday, work for me. The day-before-last at the Housekeeping department. It's been one of those days in which I'd do little in the laundry itself but would just work around the building, helping everyone, everywhere, doing everything. The days go by quick like that and it's fun to have some change around. When I got home I had some problems with internet so I decided to work on my Progress Report for school instead. Managed to complete more than half of it in a reasonable short timespan. No rented movies, nothing that night. Just some work and an easy night up in my room, doing nothing much. Put down a few more chords on piano that might use for another song someday soon. I think I have close to 30 different chords in the file so I can work my way around with those. I believe I used only 5 in Never Again, so yeah.

Sunday was my last day at work at the Housekeeping, and honestly, it felt like any other day. Just like the day before, I had been running around helping people in all places, and I just left, saying goodbye to a few people and heading home, to not return to that office to work anymore, just like that. Really weird and easy, but I didn't need a party of any kind anyway.
That night I went to a concert in Culture Room, alone. Tried to drag down Bart, Pedro or Matt, but couldn't get any of them to join. I'm not one to let go of bands because none will come with me, so I waited in line and got in. Got to talk to other people once I'm there anyway. Saw three bands on stage that night. First uup was The Delta Fiasco [6/10] from Liverpool, England. In all honesty, I loved their music. It was experimental in a way, very refreshing and original, and it also sounded good live. Not too many vocals, but it was alright nonetheless. If I had to rate just the music, I'd probably go for 8 or even 8,5 out of 10. Unfortunately for them, it's not just the sounds that determine my show experience. It's crowd reaction as well, and on a personal level, lights and show elements. They happened to have a light show on there with plenty, and I mean plenty, of stroboscope flashes. Let's just say I'm happy I'm not suffering from any epileptic symptoms, because honestly, I'd have gone straight to the ground there. It was hard to see them at times, it was hard to just keep looking straight at the stage in general. Not at all handsome, and not at all cool. Completely ruined things for me in a way.
Next up was Jonezetta [8/10], a band that didn't really fit on the bill because the other two acts were electro-based bands, whereas Jonezetta is just a rockband with nothing special to them. However, I loved their debut album Popularity and really wanted to check them out. They put up a very solid performance, playing the song Popularity somewhere at the start of their setlist, giving me a chance to sing along and get ready for anything else to come. They played some great new tunes from their latest album "Cruel To Be Young" and ended with the song Backstabber from their debut album. This song has a highly addictive chorus that makes you scream along to the oooh-ooh parts in there. Music was great, vocals too. No action in between songs at all though, and I'm still wondering what that sixth guy was doing on stage. I never knew they had someone just for a few back-up vocal lines and the additional sounds of cowbell, triangle and other shake-based instruments.
Last show of the night, the main name on the bill, Shiny Toy Guns [9/10]. I only really knew them for their poppy electro songs Rainy Monday and Don't Cry Out, but I knew there was more to this band. I've found a new hero in their keyboardist, who also played bass guitar during certain songs that night. I've heard Rainy Monday and Don't Cry Out, as well as a version of Stripped (by , and also covered by Drist on their album Orchids And Ammunition). I'm not quite sure what their third encore song was, but it also sounded really well and gave everyone a nice ending to their musical night. I've uploaded photos of the concert to the photo album as well (link to that is further up in this message) and if any of the videos I shot will be youtube worthy I will also upload those later.
I got to walk back home that night for a bit, and later took a cab. Went to bed at 0:40 and I had to get up at 4AM again as my first day at Le Marche would start with opening duties with Pierre, at 5AM.

That monday I started out in Le Marche as mentioned, and after a slow opening round, looking at stocks and the activation of equipment and the setup of all furniture inside and outside, it was my time to observe, learn and ask. The learning went a bit slow at times as I was really tired on certain moments (yes, I know, result of the night before), but everything I saw I remembered well. The active listening was a little problem at times. Had a nice and easy day that day, learning the basics and just seeing other people work there.
Got home at 2PM that afternoon and slept for 2 to 3 hours. Then wanted to watch the movie Street Kings, that Bart rented from the Publix Moviecube, but after 30 minutes, the power went down in the neighborhood here in general. My laptop and phone were already low on batteries and I didn't have much to do with those, therefore. I couldn't cook either, as we have these ceramical plates, my stuff in the fridge wasn't perfect either, and outside the traffic was being arranged by the police as those traffic lights were out as well. Managed to get some more rest, talk about some stuff with Bart, who came home in a blackened house and just waited.
Marten and Yatha came by later, finding us half asleep, with the power still out, and opted to go out and eat as we couldn't make anything at home and people started to get hungry. They still had a rental car for the night as they got it to go to Sawgrass for some shopping. As we wanted to head out, the power came back on (after almost 3 hours in total) and we went to The Cheesecake Factory. Just had a main dish there, Lemon and Herbs Chicken, which was alright. Not a place I'd go to again for the great food, really. Knowing the four of us, you can tell we had a great time fooling around with everything and everyone. Yatha and I finished Street Kings that night as Marten went to bed early (he had been up for more than 24 hours as he did a night shift at the hotel) and Bart went to bed already as well.

Tuesday I got to work at Le Marche again, and I managed to do quite a few transactions and Blake, the second in command over there (after Pierre) taught me how to make all the ice coffees they have at the place. Met some regular guests (hotel room owners, as it's a condo hotel) or local people that come by almost daily. Then started with a small assignment Pierre gave me, concerning the storage room and inventory lists. I still need to complete that one, but will work on that soon. When I got home I found that we had the modem from AT&T and apparently I'm the most technical one around (yes, Hans, thank you for all that) and I tried setting it up. As I had been trying around several things at several places in the house, I had a feeling that our phone lines were not connected still, and I gave up.
Watched "Don't Mess With The Zohan" together with Bart, Yatha, Marten and Sabrina after Bart made some spaghetti with chicken (with my recipe, but I was still fixing the internet at the time). Had a good sleep as I wanted to use today (my day off) for useful spare time missions.

Went to AT&T today to get the phone line sorted. Mark, the manager of the kiosk at Galleria Mall helped me out great once again, showing just as much patience as I have, as he was being redirected, forwarded and pushed back between multiple divisions in AT&T, trying to solve my phone line problem. He spent more than an hour on this again, and the requisition of the package itself took more than 2 hours, a week ago. I promised him that next time I have a bigger problem, I'll bring him chocolates for all the help he's given us. Requested some information about a family package for my phone, and he forwarded us to another AT&T booth where he is the assistant manager to get Georgi on my phone plan and get him an iPhone too. Now we pay 45 a month each, instead of me paying 75, and we both work with our iPhones, having free calls to one another and more of those easy access things.
Worked out really nice so far.

I'm done with the updates for everyone for now, I'm putting the final touches to the uploaded photos and I will share the video I promised earlier;