First day of work, day 5 in España :)

Wednesday, June 9th
FIRST DAY OF WORK! AHHHH! ok, just breath, everything will be fine! I got up early, went to the hotel and ate breakfast, got dressed and headed to the train station. Of course it´s raining, but at least I only have to walk a couple of blocks. So I know exactly where I´m going since we did our practice runs yesterday, didn´t get lost the first time! So I open the door to¨my work¨and all there is is an elevator and set of staris. Where the crap am I suppose to go!? Ok, there was a man standing outside, so I´ll just ask him.... yep, he don´t speak a lick of english. Ok, you can do this... ¨BM Lighting?¨All I hear him say is ¨blah blah blah blah blah izquierda¨all while pointing up the stairs. Ok, so I go up and turn left. Easy enough. Up one flight, turned left... no BM Lighting. Up two flights, turned left... no BM Lighting. Ok, flight 3, turn left... ah, BM Lighting! Finally, I found it, but now where the crap is the door handle, or door bell. This is going to be a long day... I knock once, no answer. Knock twice, and a sweet little lady comes to the door speaking, of course, spanish! She points to a chair so I sit and wait, and wait, and wait. It feels like an hour but it was only probably 5 minutes when I hear ¨Brittany!? How are you?¨ Thank God, it´s english! Birgit, my boss, introduces herself then asks me the dreaded question, ¨How is your spanish¨So I had to tell her the truth, it pretty much sucks! I think she was a little disappointed but hopefully my good work will make up for it.

She told me I will be working with Ireñe. She´s really cool, young and super nice and also speaks english. It´s just them 3 in the office plus me. As soon as I got there they were on their way for coffee so I went along. We stayed at the cafe for about 30 minutes or so (they spoke spanish pretty much the whole time) then headed back. Birgit asked if I knew powerpoint. Love it! So Ireñe then explained that I would be taking information from all of the past work Birgit has done and compile them all into one file, twice. Once in english and once in spanish. (They already have the text written, so no need for me to freak! lol and for those that they missed, http://www.freetranslation.com/ is my best friend!)

We went to lunch around 3pm at the same cafe we had coffee and I had tomato soup (not my fav), meatballs and calamari (loved it) and a lemon dessert. Of course they made me taste their food. Birgit had lettuce stuff with cheese (ok) and Ireñe had peas, beans and sausage (pretty tastey). We had a bottle of wine with carbonated water. I don´t really care for wine, but this was drinkable.

We came back to work until 6:30. Birgit came out of a meeting and told Ireñe to turn the music up! haha I loved it!

I had to rush to catch the train then rush to the hotel for a seminar, which I was about 30 minutes late for, then dinner at 8. Back to the room to crash!

Hasta Mañana