Dear reader,
today is Friday in the third week of our trip and the time is still running as hell. Yesterday my colleague Hugo ask me if i could do some over hours on Friday evening/night because we need to change or exchange version. Absolutely no problem because then I don’t need to return to our apartment. It’s a win, win, win situation.
I really love my working place here in the center of Dublin, it is quite amazing (big thanks to Magaret at this point). Some of my other colleagues from the OSZ told me that they only need to speak English when they get a new task or when there day start’s, but In my company I need to talk the whole day in fluent English and that helps a lot. Not only when I get a task, also when we talk over our countries or our football clubs or our governments and stuff like that.
Hugo told me why so many Spanish people are in Ireland or other countries: 57 % of the people who are under 25 years old, are jobless. And if you find a job in Spain, it is just a joke. He show me a job advert where over 1000 people fighting for. You need a university study, high level programming and graphic design skills (with certification), you need to speak perfect fluent English and one other language and than you get… 400 € per month and a contract for 6 months. I still can’t believe that.
The best day in the week was yesterday, Thursday. The champions league semi finals were done and both Spanish teams lose with a hard defeat against Dortmund and Munich. I couldn’t hide my smile while i came up the stairs to our office! 😀
This post are maybe a little bit off topic but in my opinion these intercultural things are the most interesting on this journey.
Cheers,
Alex
P.S.: If Stefan write me a message at 7:45am again, i need to kill him 🙂
sure thing, i’ll write it at 7 a.m.
I’ll be safe then! 😀
7:45? At this time I am up for nearly 2 hours!
Okay that’s bad luck and not my problem Lars 😛
And Stefan… you know i need my sleep to look as good as you, so please stop it 😀