Work here has been boring with a capital Bee... so understimulating it acually almost reduces you to tears... or that could be cuz im staring at the computer screen all day long on bored.com and enews.com - mmm.....
so i had my job interview on tuesday for the office admin/project secretary for the engineering company... and i got it! i had it from the moment i sat down really.. and i dont mean that in a vian way but the meeting was more of a formality then anything :) went n signed the contract yesterday... all done n dusted! on 25k, which is like 55 aussie - ye har! good package with holls, gym benifits etc cant wait to start on monday!!! the guy iain is a classic - aussie as - so sweet sense of humour!!
tonight tonight - im off to paris :) taking michael as a surprise.. or it was a surprise til i told him last nite... variety of reasons... cudnt hold it is any longer, didnt want sum1 else to tell him, and he practicaly begged so i bursted the bubble n confessed! two nites in this little hotel, were going to see the Seine river, the eiffel tower - all the paris usuals... im sure next week ill be writing all about it...
betta get back brushin up on my french.... amour à tous et à la bonne nuit !
xx
March 15, 2008
March 11, 2008
i should be writing on this more often but its a little hard... iv been doing so much lately that i dont know where to start :)
things are going well here in general... everything has settled down and im in a good routine happening... working and going to gym twice a week and getting trolleyd on the weekends :) ha! had a few nites out with the boy and all his mates... all the picies are on facebook! wish i could figure out how to upload heaps of pics onto this blog...
ok... so iv been working for the last two weeks as a receptionist for a property development company.. its ok.. nothing that really requires too many brain cells! I have an interview tomorrow for a more permanent position as a pa/office manager for the MD of an engineering company... he's an aussie guy - classic sense of humor! really hope i get it but dont wana have 2 much riding on it incase not.. so wish me luck!
This weekend just gone - Michael, Hoppy (flatmate), Tau, Gus, Jo (all kiwi's!!) and I went to Poland! It was amazing!! We all met at Clapham Junction overground station and caught the train to Gatwick airport (south london) checked in, had maca's (hehe) and flew on Wizz Air to Katowice in Poland!! We arrived, two hours later tired and hungry (well i was hungry anyways!!) and got a bus transfer to Kraków which was over an hour... this Canadian guy on our bus knew polish so showed us where to go to get to our hostel! we stumbled through the city square at 2 degree temperature and finally arrived at "mama's hostel". checked in etc etc had a look around it was awsome!
things are going well here in general... everything has settled down and im in a good routine happening... working and going to gym twice a week and getting trolleyd on the weekends :) ha! had a few nites out with the boy and all his mates... all the picies are on facebook! wish i could figure out how to upload heaps of pics onto this blog...
ok... so iv been working for the last two weeks as a receptionist for a property development company.. its ok.. nothing that really requires too many brain cells! I have an interview tomorrow for a more permanent position as a pa/office manager for the MD of an engineering company... he's an aussie guy - classic sense of humor! really hope i get it but dont wana have 2 much riding on it incase not.. so wish me luck!
This weekend just gone - Michael, Hoppy (flatmate), Tau, Gus, Jo (all kiwi's!!) and I went to Poland! It was amazing!! We all met at Clapham Junction overground station and caught the train to Gatwick airport (south london) checked in, had maca's (hehe) and flew on Wizz Air to Katowice in Poland!! We arrived, two hours later tired and hungry (well i was hungry anyways!!) and got a bus transfer to Kraków which was over an hour... this Canadian guy on our bus knew polish so showed us where to go to get to our hostel! we stumbled through the city square at 2 degree temperature and finally arrived at "mama's hostel". checked in etc etc had a look around it was awsome!
such a wicked hostel!! just a little baby one with less then 10 rooms! we all dumped our stuff and crashed out on the bunk beds!woke up on sat after minimal sleep - well i slept like a baby but apparently tau was snoring all night n kept the others awake , mike had 1 hour sleep (ouch!!) up n dressed n went n had a little look around the square, jumped on the bus and headed off to Auschwitz Birkenau! The bus took about an hour, we watched a movie made by a cameraman in WWII... we arrived at Auschwitz I - which has been turned into a museum... we spent about an hour and a half touring that..
as we walked in we walked under the gates with the quote 'Arbeit Macht Fret' - Work Makes Freedom! U could feel the irony in ur bones as you walked through it...
we were shown the famous death wall, where the prisoners where lined up and shot - its like triple re-in forced.. the original one was ruined after liberation of the camp, this one was just the replica... we saw the rooms where the officers who ran the camp lived, uniforms worn, etc - it was insane looking into the rooms - the doors have this glass on them and its like looking in a time warp everything is exactly how it would have been back then! we saw the underground tunnels which were really freaky to be in... the torture rooms, starvation rooms, suffocation rooms - the little 1.4m square cells where the would lock people in overnight - making them stand all night against each other and then work all day - the longest any1 lasted was 20 sleepless nights standing up... its amazing what the human body can endure... We saw thousand of shoes, clothes, suitcases, 2 TONNES of human hair, toothbrushes, glasses etc - everything that the Germans took from the prisoners and stored in camp.. it all made it so real to see all these items! There were so many things that we saw and i wish i could write about them all but i would be here all day!
We then boarded the bus and went to AuschwitzII - which is the big camp in which 100,000 people lived in at a time!! Its km's long and wide and just stretched on in every direction as far as you could see... it really made u feel like thats what the whole world looked like when you were there... we had a small tour there and found out that the buidings which housed the prisoners where originally horse stables, built for like 35 horses.. they kept 1,000 people in each! it was 8 to a bunk, 3 levels of bunks that either had a thin crap mattress or just plain wood.. the rats were really bad and would try and eat the people who lived on the bottom bunks... just horrific!!
i know it may sound silly but when we walked into the underground chambers and the buildings where they lived and died - it honestly felt so so much colder! it was like too much had gone on in these places, too much pain and sadness had occurred for them to every be warmed again...
i think the most horrific and saddening thing about the whole experience was how calculated, organised and proficient the whole running of the camp was... i guess its why over 1 million people were able to be killed there during the war!
Bused back to Kraków, and sat around the hostel for a while... we were all a bit down n out after the days events... got up n dressed and went n had sum drinks at this little polish pub - all the pubs are underground little bunkers - so so cool! honey vodka - the polish specialty.. wow wow wow!! yum yum yum!!! we ended up going to heaps of bars and clubs - hip hop one called RESPECT,
club called PROZAC (in the pic) - found a sweet little kebab shop that we went back to again later when we were dieseled haha drinks were soooo cheap! we were doing rounds of 6 cocktails each for £15 a round! fantastic!! so we all got reasonable smashed and crashed in the wee hours of the morning!!!
woke up on sunday - in hell... up n out of the hostel, jo n gus went n had sum time 2getha n checked out the royal castle, me and the boys went n had breaky at this place in the square - the location amazing! the sun was out and i even took off my huge jacket! the food however - terrible! the girl stuffed up all our orders, forgot drinks etc etc.. we bailed from there and caught a tuk-tuk to the shopping mall, laaaaaazy!! so worth it tho! haha the boys did a bit of shopping- i was a good girl and spent nothing!! the train station was next door so at 2.20pm we boarded the train... two hours on that, we jumped off - bolted outside and just made the bus (after sum translation help) for an hour more to get us to Katowice airport...
(we booked the shuttle bus for only 1 way NOT return - it was so silly!!)
We then boarded the bus and went to AuschwitzII - which is the big camp in which 100,000 people lived in at a time!! Its km's long and wide and just stretched on in every direction as far as you could see... it really made u feel like thats what the whole world looked like when you were there... we had a small tour there and found out that the buidings which housed the prisoners where originally horse stables, built for like 35 horses.. they kept 1,000 people in each! it was 8 to a bunk, 3 levels of bunks that either had a thin crap mattress or just plain wood.. the rats were really bad and would try and eat the people who lived on the bottom bunks... just horrific!!
i know it may sound silly but when we walked into the underground chambers and the buildings where they lived and died - it honestly felt so so much colder! it was like too much had gone on in these places, too much pain and sadness had occurred for them to every be warmed again...
i think the most horrific and saddening thing about the whole experience was how calculated, organised and proficient the whole running of the camp was... i guess its why over 1 million people were able to be killed there during the war!
Bused back to Kraków, and sat around the hostel for a while... we were all a bit down n out after the days events... got up n dressed and went n had sum drinks at this little polish pub - all the pubs are underground little bunkers - so so cool! honey vodka - the polish specialty.. wow wow wow!! yum yum yum!!! we ended up going to heaps of bars and clubs - hip hop one called RESPECT,
club called PROZAC (in the pic) - found a sweet little kebab shop that we went back to again later when we were dieseled haha drinks were soooo cheap! we were doing rounds of 6 cocktails each for £15 a round! fantastic!! so we all got reasonable smashed and crashed in the wee hours of the morning!!!woke up on sunday - in hell... up n out of the hostel, jo n gus went n had sum time 2getha n checked out the royal castle, me and the boys went n had breaky at this place in the square - the location amazing! the sun was out and i even took off my huge jacket! the food however - terrible! the girl stuffed up all our orders, forgot drinks etc etc.. we bailed from there and caught a tuk-tuk to the shopping mall, laaaaaazy!! so worth it tho! haha the boys did a bit of shopping- i was a good girl and spent nothing!! the train station was next door so at 2.20pm we boarded the train... two hours on that, we jumped off - bolted outside and just made the bus (after sum translation help) for an hour more to get us to Katowice airport...
(we booked the shuttle bus for only 1 way NOT return - it was so silly!!) got to the airport, ate sum more, checked in, boarded, had another 2 hour flight, train back from airport to junction, as bus home... so we basically did about 8 hours of traveling and transfers...
got home and crashed out!!
anyways i have 4 meetings at 3pm have to set up for here in the office so i better fly - hope this wasnt too long and boring!
promise ill write less words, and more often :)
much love from the little aussie battler, oops no sorry the little aussie traveller :)
xxxxxx
anyways i have 4 meetings at 3pm have to set up for here in the office so i better fly - hope this wasnt too long and boring!
promise ill write less words, and more often :)
much love from the little aussie battler, oops no sorry the little aussie traveller :)
xxxxxx
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