Yeah, so I had my first day at the restaurant yesterday and it was loads of fun! The other waiters and waitresses (only 4) are great and they know how to have a good time while working. As well they were very welcoming and insisting on speaking French to (not really 'with') me which of course is a necessary evil in order to learn the dangin language. It sounds cool but the problem with it is, that the pronounciation is nowhere near the spelling, and I'm quite dependent on visualizing the word, when it's said in order to understand it, so.. Its only a minor hiccup though - no biggie. Oh yeah, tips from the first night: 10 euros 75 cents.
Saturday night was crazy though as it was the last night with my parents. In the morning we'd checked in at the place I'm staying which is with one of the two managers of the Restaurant: Jose. Anyway, he invited us as a family to come eat at the restaurant which we of course did. After a hearty hearty dinner (the bill came up to around 100 euros!) my parents had to take off to their highway hotel real fast. So we went to the car, said our goodbye's whereafter they got in, and took off. Now that must have been my single most lonely moment in my life. I was standing with the clothes on my back in a city of which I didn't speak the language, and was going 'home' to a man, with whom I couldn't communicate. Let me tell you that all of my previous naive optimism left me in that moment. I trotted off to the apartment, got into the foreign bed with the strange dog still trying to hump my leg when I got in the door and dozed off to sleep. Man...
Okay, it's a bit melodramatic, but I really did feel like I was utterly alone! I had the thought walking home sat nite that now I was really on my own now. Exciting having to be alone and your life is a job which you can not fail cos you live with the boss! I think I need this lesson in responsibility. My dad kept repeating a mantra at me in the last 48 hours:
"Be responsible,
Think ahead,
Innovate."
-and I think I will!
Oh well, I gotta take off. Gotta be at work in half an hour and there's a guy I wanna find on the net here. His name's Bruno and I know him from a summer camp a year ago in Budapest. He lives here in Marseille and invited me to come visit him.. Think I will, if I can find him!
Oh yeah, if anyone wants to send me stuff my address is:
c/o Ferrer
102 Rue Jules Moulet
13006 Marseille
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how exciting, to be all alone in a new place, uh and frigthening too...it's fun to read your blogs, mostly cause once upon a time we grew up together, but that's like ages ago, but fun to see where you are heading and thinking, interesting of course aswell...
hope you learn the language quickly, thought you knew it already, hehehe gymnasie fransk måske...
well, i must admit that it surprised me when you started reading (and commenting) my posts! -t'was a thoroughly nice one, mind you! :) I'm curious about your direction (when I stumbled into your drinking comments on your site / haha) Oh, by the way: "Great site - do you ever update it??" What a balcony, and your place looks just like Aarhusvej 95! ;)
ha, yeah that's my official website that my dad's too lazy to update cause i have to send everything through him and then it's just more work...i'm gonna start a blog soon and get some more stuff down...hehehe...
I know isn't it awful århusvej all over, but it's a nice neighbourhood...
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