33 days of working, 256 hours of working, in which 17 hours of break, and on the top of that 66 hours of standing in the crowded bus. In the end we didn’t get the best grades but not the worst either. But we got the best for us. And feedback about being on the right track.

This week we worked with our “instructor” from Monday to Wednesday (in other words, we worked with her maybe half of the time and the other half we were rubbing plates etc). And in the end we didn’t sit down and talk about the practice with her, she only gave us the papers and said have a good flight, thank you. Well maybe it is partly our fault for not asking feedback from the departments. Okay then.

We had two pictures from the last day but this blog didn’t let us add them. Happy to say goodbye to this blog.

xoxo,
Get ready Finland, we are coming home,
Piña & Rina

Hello,

This week has been pretty much same as the last week. Pinja has been doing the morning shift at housekeeping and Riina the evening shift in food & beverage.

In housekeeping the work has been pretty much the same, just checking if the rooms are ready for the customers. And in F&B Riina has been doing some room service by taking food to the rooms. And cleaning the dishes.

xoxo,

we can count the remaining working days with one hand,

Riina & Pinja

Dime, dime, dime!

This week Riina did a morning shift at housekeeping. Every morning she made a cleaning list of the rooms and helped to fill cleaning products in the storage. She checked the rooms with the mistress if they are ready for the customers. And she got to actually clean a toilet one day!!! Progress!! In the housekeeping only one person speaks English (a little) but luckily Riina had her own translator Lisa. She is a Chinese trainee from university and she is an exchange student. Riina has liked the people there and learned some new Spanish words. 🙂

Pinja was in a different department, she was in food & beverage doing an evening shift. She worked mainly in the other restaurant cleaning the dishes, serving food and drinks and doing other unpleasant things. In other words she hates it and is happy to go to housekeeping next week  to learn Spanish (as Riina is going to “Bistro”, good luck mate). The only things that made Pinja somewhat happy were the workers in Bistro and the big 92pax group of Finnish people that arrived on Thursday.

xoxo,

looking forward to working on Sunday,

Riina & Pinja

Buenas!

This was our second week in the repection. Pinja was on the morning shift and Riina was on the evening shift. We have been doing pretty much the same things as in the first week. The only different thing is that we have a Finnish couple as customers. And on the next week we will have a 92 pax group coming from Finland. Sadly (yeah right) we will not be in the reception.

Tomorrow is our last day in that department and on Monday the fate has been cruel and put us in different departments. Riina will be working in the housekeeping (in which they do not speak English, good luck Charlie and have fun studying Spanish) and Pinja in the food & beverage. So, most likely the only day we will be able to see each other on the next week will be Wednesday, thanks to different departments and shifts.

So we had Friday and Saturday free, and we decided to use Friday as a day to explore  the secrets of Porto Pi, a big shopping center.

xoxo,

nothing funny to say ,

Piña & Rina

Hola,

As many busy days this week as there are ‘work’ words in the headline. So no pictures, sorry not sorry.

We have been working in the reception from Monday to Friday. Riina has been doing the morning shift (8-16) and Pinja the evening shift (14-22). Because of the ah so lovely bus travel to work, Riina had to wake up at 6am every morning and Pinja was home after 11pm every night. Zzzz…

The only things we have been mostly doing are fileing the reservations (which is a pain in the booty since the files are _VERY_ full) and adding the customer information to the reservation system. And on the quiet days the lovely staff (we really, really like them) has been teaching us about working in the reception.

This weekend we have been chilling and enjoying the sun. Nothing special. We really don’t have the energy to do anything special (not after having a group of 245 British people filling up the hotel on Friday).

xoxo,

considering the change of our ringtones to Enrique Iglesias’s song to blend in,

Pinja & Riina

Buenas tardes,

We began working at the hotel on this Monday. Traveling by bus is freaking awful, and we finally realized properly how it works on THURSDAY. And tomorrow the shift is changing, so damn.

On Monday we got shown around the hotel and got our time schedules for work. We will be the first two weeks together.

This week we were supposed to be working as manager assistants, but we got moved into the spa on Thursday since there wasn’t anything to do. The spa hasn’t got anything to do either, so, yeah. Hopefully next week will be better (we are in the spa that week too). We have been collecting dirty laundry and lighting candles, yay. We also got to do some product placement (meaning that we only moved products from one shelf to another).

On Saturday we took the bus to the center of Palma and went to see the cathedral. It was closed tho. So instead we went to the Royal Palace museum next to it. And today, Sunday, we went to the beach SWIMMING!! We were the only ones swimming though, so the local people probs thought we were crazy. It was really fun and the water was almost as salty as the bottled water. 🙂

xoxo,
counting the working hours,Pinja & Riina