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AAA-Groupin Final days together

Learning Diaries,

Hola chicos, time is running so fast in here, thats why we have not had time to write post, because days are pretty long in here and heat is not easy for Finns. Now we are spending our last days with AAA-group, because Artturi leaves back to Finland in may 21st, but Aatu and Antti are still staying here.

We have great news about our internship, because we got job offer from director of Forestal park. That tells for you,  ours Finnish workethics and motivations of the internship. We have enjoyed our time in Forestal park. Here is hot as in Finlands best days in summer, but nothing beat the real Finnish rain.

We have tried a lot to do many different activities, but always something fails and thats why we did not get chance to parafly or dive with sharks, but have seen lot of places in Mallorca. Good example is Muro, there is nothing for anybody, but maybe you can buy more muros in some market of Muro like cornflakes.

Artturi’s last feelings: Feels good to come back Finland after nice time in Mallorca. This has been awesome experience.  Artturi 1 Mallorca 0. Thanks for great spanish friends, ies bendinat, forestal park and else, who are made this internship possible.

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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

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

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

AAA-Group in discomfort zone

Learning Diaries,

Hola chicos, here we are again writing a new post. Now we have two weeks behind in our internship in forestal park. We have been very colorful two weeks, because of many basic problems and those problems are been little cultureshock for us. We have good examples, which are  broken cell phone, hand laundry and spanish and Finnish culture differences at work. It is Finnish style to tell for you bad things first. Dont worry guys, we have done lot of great things too, but i dont know is that good idea to tell for you guys what we have done.

In our last post, we didn’t have any pictures so now you get eleven. Pictures are about basic things in our works and life in Mallorca. Sorry pictures are pretty boring stuff. We hope that we get better material for examples diving with sharks, glide sail or fall tirolina head down. We will do that last one in some day( our supervisor told us).

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Adios until next time!

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Learning Diaries,

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.

On the left side is a list of rooms. The yellow ones are clean and free. The other one is a check list that the workers must do during their shifts.
On the left side is a list of rooms. The yellow ones are clean and free. The other one is a check list that the workers must do during their shifts.

xoxo,

nothing funny to say ,

Piña & Rina

workworkworkworkwork vol 2

Learning Diaries,

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

AAA-Group

Learning Diaries,

At the moment we are in the forestal park after hotel life. Everything is ok, but in here spanish people doesn’t know, what laundry means(general manager). I am just kidding we have been great time in here forestal park and everything is just fine. I think that you want to see pictures, sorry maybe next time, because have to go sleep. We are very grateful for school of benditat for time, what we spend over there.

After couple days in forestal park we just feel great, because atmosphere in here is great and we have learned already so much important about adventure actions.

ps. We have own floor in our hostel

Adios amigos for next time with photos.

Cockroaches and treatments

Learning Diaries, Training Places,

7 days at the spa are over and at least the same amount of cockroaches met their death by Riina’s hands. May they rest in peace in the spa’s trash bin.

Working has been same old, same old. On Thursday the boss helped us to do peeling treatments to each other (which was hella awkward but the skin felt so smooth afterwards). On Friday Riina got to be in thongs again in front of five people when they were practising the sellulite treatment (no reason to do that for her tho) on her. Feet felt much lighter after that so it was worth it.

On Saturday we went to the citysightseeing tour on bus (we got free tickets from our workmate from spa ♥ (AND FREE HEADPHONES!!!)). It was a nice change to our bus trips to the hotel. We actually got to sit down. In upstairs feeling the wind and the sun 🙂 We saw a lot of nice places like the castle.

And today we went to Palma Aquarium. It was a really fancy place with sea cucumbers and fish. Lots of fish. We got a discount there since the spa boss gave it to us ♥ gotta love ’em.

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A walk on the beach when the sun sets is quite a sight to see
A walk on the beach when the sun sets is quite a sight to see
The castle something
The castle something
Hui hai
Hui hai
Seahorses ♥
Seahorses ♥

xoxo

still wondering how we haven’t got lost yet,

Pinja & Riina