Home sweet home! Now it’s over. 9 weeks went fast and it was a new experience which you can remember later with a smile. Thanks everybody of this trip!
Mari
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Buenas noches!
The last week start here far from home. This week we have experienced an earthquake and somebody stole my rental bike.
Winter is coming to Spain and night the temperature drops to under ten degrees. It saw in the street view that people dress in thin winter jackets and longsleeved pants. The beach are empty. During the day the temperature rises over 20 degrees.
The work has the same for all these eight weeks that we have been here.
Couble shifts left and we can go to homewith one new experience 🙂
– Sari & Mari –
Buenas dias!
Last week I forgot to write a blog post, sorry!
We have been so busy at work. Sari has been working in TorreMarket also, because they have only few workers there. I have had lots of work in the office. A new employee came to the office and she has been trained by follow us…
Work is same as usually: booking greenfeetimes, flying tickets and rental cars for customers, makeing travel programs, customer service, answering the phone…
Mari went to the football game in Murcia last week. That was Spanish culture at its best!
Real Murcia vs FC Barcelona 0-3
Mari y Sari
Buenas días :)
Five weeks behind. Four weeks and we are home.
This week we have done the same works as before and found that we have already learned to do much without the help of others. Good for us!
The first good thunderous air hit a day and the next night there was a lot of rain. But yes, the air was fresh after rain.
Both had a weekend free so yesterday we headed to the local market place which is organized every saturday on a street. There were a lots of people, lots of sellers and the air was warm, 27 degrees.
Today was supposed to be a beach day but wins so much that we decided to do some school works…
Bueno para la pròxima semana 🙂
Sari y Mari
Torrevieja
Half the time behind here. Last few weeks has been heavy. There have been illness, visits to the hospital and moveing to a clean apartment. All this has been hard and blog writeing has left lesser. Now life smiles again! We have nice apartment and now we have swimmingpool also!
At work we have had busy. Our office moved new place and past week we had to work two different offices which caused its own problems. Two people do same work, different place and one phone!
At freetime we have been at the apartment, swim a lot, sleep and eat well 🙂
Mari y Sari
Here is our swimmingpool 🙂
Here is Enrike. He started the same day as we did, but he was only one month.
Our new apartment!
Hola
Now is the first week behind at ProJenni Travels in Torrevieja, Espanja.
We have learned to book teetimes, rent a car and buy flyftickets to our customers. We have office in the same businesspremises with Cafe Ella and Torremarket. She owns all off these. At work she have employer many countrys and every day we heard Spanish, Finnish and English for example. Because our customers coming for example the Finland, Sweden, Germany, so this confuses our heads.
Sari taught the spanishchef how to bake a finnish salty- and sweetpies, without a common language. They spoke with a sign. But result was very good.
Weather is good, the tempeature is 25-30 celsius. Fortunately our apartment is 300 meters away to the sea.
Dining out is cheap. Sometimes we didn’t know what we order, everything has been good.
Sari y Mari
Torrevieja, Spain
Hola!
Today was our first day in the office! Our job counselor is Johanna, who has come to work to projennis in the spring. Office is very small and it was difficult to move and work there, but fortunetaly the office will move to new premises within a few weeks.
Today we just get some information how to work and what we have to do. We allso use email to ask some free greefee times and send emails to customers. Mari allso wash several golf clubs :).
Tomorrow we stady how to rent a car. But now we have free time and we are going to eat some pasta and swim in the sea.
Mari y Sari
This is taken near Torrevieja marina
Torrevieja Spain
Vamos! Today starts our trip to Spain Torrevieja. We are staying 2 months and we are going to work at ProJenni Travells office.
Mari ja Sari
Start to landing… there is allways a shadow following 🙂
Last words
Hello everyone!
So six weeks in Malta is gone now and we have been back in Finland two weeks now. It’s nice to bee back home but I have been really busy lately. I have started my summer work and prepared my graduation party and I have to confess that I forged to write this final report and that’s why it toke so long.
If I think our Malta experience now after two weeks I think I learned lot even at first I thought that I won’t learn much working in travel agency. I also scared that my language skills wont’t get any better because our work mates spoke mostly Maltese, but I was wrong whit that too. Our work place Britannia Tours was really nice and I could work for them anytime if I got a chance. Also Maltese culture is lovely and people there are so friendly and I think I will find my self from there many times during my life. Even Paragon Europe the society which toke care of our accommodation and everything else was really careless and they didn’t do much when we told them something was wrong In the end I think our experience was good and I will miss that place except our apartment. 😀
So now we have told you everything about our trip and I hope you liked our stories!
Bye!
Susanna
Good vibes
Good morning!
Today is (finally) our last day in Malta. Our flight leaves at 17:20 from Malta to Frankfurt and we’ll be in Finland after midnight. I’m missing my pets, friends and family so much. After all, six weeks have gone by very quickly. We’ve had a lot of fun!
This week we visited Manoel Island in Gzira. It’s located right next to Sliema. Manoel Island’s population is zero if you don’t count in the ducks, hens, geese, guinea pigs, rabbits and cats living in the Duck Village. Duck Village is maintained by one man who has built it from trash and things he has found in the streets. Funny to see cats and birds getting along so fine!
On Manoel Island there is Fort Manoel but it’s not open to public. It’s an old war fort and it was built in the 18th century. It has been restored after WWII. I was a bit disappointed that we couldn’t go around the fortress but we walked around the island itself. Needless to say, it was stunning! Nuff says, the fort is haunted by the Black Knight but we didn’t catch a glimpse of him.
Tuesday was our last work day at the head office in Qormi. We made wallets for the customers and organized them by the meeting dates.
Before every tour the customers have a meeting in the head office where the tour leader tells them about the trip and gives them the plane tickets. It’s usually kept one or two weeks before the departure.
After we had done all our work, we bought 11 doughnuts for our co-workers, gave them Karl Fazer’s chocolate and fed them salmiakki. Surprisingly, no one even grinned when tasting it! It was kind of sad to leave all our workmates there, but I’m sure we’ll be in touch in the future.
On Wednesday & Thursday we went to the Mosta Branch. We invoiced customers and made bookings with the Group Travel System. It was a lot of fun to work with Natasha, Maddie and Andrew! After work we had a closing meeting with Paragon.
Our last three days we’ve spent well in the beach. I’m going to miss the sea so much! I love swimming in it and watching the waves hit the coast when it’s windy.
This has been as great adventure for the both of us. We’ve learned a lot about Maltese culture and working as a part of a big family business. I recommend this for anyone who has ever thought about working abroad. You should follow your dreams and go already!
Best wishes,
Remu