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Last day, last post

Learning Diaries,

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

long time no see. Ireland girl

Learning Diaries,

Hey.

The final weeks are exported. Here’s the deal much has had time to occur. My parents came to visit , and that’s why became a bit more extensive traveling here in Ireland.  Also, the skills demonstration is after completing through.

Here some pictures from me.

  1. Aillwee Cave view   2. Cliffs of Moher 3. Cliffs of Moher  4. Surfers  5. Typical old time house to irish people  6. Poulnabrone  7.-10. Little bit country photosIMG_5461 IMG_5528 IMG_5541 IMG_5557 IMG_5569 IMG_5594 IMG_5686 IMG_5695 IMG_5723 IMG_5733

 

Cockroaches and dishes

Learning Diaries,

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.

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xoxo,

we can count the remaining working days with one hand,

Riina & Pinja

Vähiin käy ennen kun loppuu

Learning Diaries,

Tosiaan viimeinen työpäivä oli eilen ja lauantai-illalla kutsuukin jo koti-Suomi, sitä ennen on tosin edessä vielä yhden yön reissu Amsterdamiin 🙂 aika menee hurjan nopeasti!

Viime viikolla kävin lauantaina Rotterdamissa, uskomattoman hieno paikka! Vanha ja uusi samaan aikaan, tykkäsin tosi paljon. Illalla taas vähän grillailtiin . Jos jotain oon mun ihanilta puolalaiskämppiksiltä oppinut niin sen, että Puolassa syödään… ja juodaan paljon ja hyvin 😀

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Tosiaan alkuviikosta pyörähdin vielä töissä muutaman päivän…

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Jutta

//I had yesterday my last workday and and on Saturday will be my last day in Holland. Before that I still have overnight trip to Amserdam 🙂 Time goes so fast!

Last week I want to Rotterdam on Saturday and it was so amazing! So new and old at the same time, I loved it. In the evening we had again barbecue . If I have learned something from my lovely Polish roommates it’s that in Poland they eat… and drink a lot (don’t blame them tough, their food is heaven) 😀

Jutta

Second last week

Learning Diaries,

Hi,

Time is going very fast.  Its almost time to come back to Finland. Yesterday was really hot day. I got some sun burned on my back and it hurts “a little bit”.  Not nice at all.

This week I have done following tasks:
– Putting supporting canes to tomatoes.
– Planting basil to glasshouse.
– Sowing vegetable seeds.
– Watering.
– Attached Clematis to climb the fence.
– Packing tents from weekend’s events.
– etc.

Here is some photos what I have done:

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-Tinja-

Vale, vale, vale

Learning Diaries,

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. 🙂

This is the cleaning list. Meanings of the colors: green means free and clean, long orange are dirty from yesterday, short orange dirty from the check outs today, blue is a upcoming customer today and white ones are occupied.
This is the cleaning list. Meanings of the colors: green means free and clean, long orange are dirty from yesterday, short orange dirty from the check outs today, blue is a upcoming customer today and white ones are occupied.
These are majorcan sweets from one of the cleaning ladies.
These are majorcan sweets from one of the cleaning ladies.

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.

This is a diagram of the bosses in Valparaiso.
This is a diagram of the bosses in Valparaiso.

xoxo,

looking forward to working on Sunday,

Riina & Pinja

Munkkeja ja muuta mukavaa

Learning Diaries,

Hei täältä!

Viime viikon keskiviikkona hollantilaiset juhlivat Kuninkaanpäivää. Itse biletin kuumeessa sängyn pohjalla, mutta katselin kuitenkin kuvia netistä.

Sunnuntaina puolestaan oli aika suomalaisen juhlinnan, koska vappu. Ryhdistäydyin keittiössä ja munkkeilin vähän. Simaa oli ikävä mutta muuten tekovappuni ei ollu lainkaan hullumpi! Käytiin iltapäivällä myös shoppailemassa Den Haagissa, aurinko paistoi ja ihmisiä oli paljon!

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Muuten elämä on ollut taas aika työpainoista. Äitienpäivä tuottaa lisää tilauksia ja sitä kautta kiirettä ja pitkiä päiviä. Eipähän käy aika pitkäksi 🙂

Kesä on saapunut (ainakin kahdeksi päiväksi) ja huomenna onkin onneksi taas vapaapäivä. Sen jälkeen työpäiviä onkin jäljellä enää näillä näkymin neljä. Vähiin käy!

Jutta

//On Wednesday last week the dutch people celebrated Koningsdag (kingsday). I had my own Kingsday’s party in bed (fever), but I saw pictures on the internet.

On Sunday it was time for Finnish partying because of the first of may. In Finland it’s traditional to eat then some kind of doughnuts so I also did those. In the evening me and my roommates went to den Haag to do some shopping. There were lots of people and the sun was shining. Loved it.

Otherwise life has been pretty much all work. Because of the Mothers day, we have lots of orderings that means busy, long days. At least there’s always something to do 🙂

Summer has come (at least for two days) and tomorrow it’s luckily a holiday. After that it seems that I will have only four days of work left. Time flies!

Jutta