Day 4 in Beijing, the work begins

Day 4

Up at 8am, at work at 10am, started moving water tanks at 10.30am. We didn’t to much today, just the odd polishing for about 4 hours of which, at the end of the 4 hours, we found out that we had to delay everything till later at night since the glasses were never washed before. So we were sent home and came back to work after dinner, polishing for around 3 hours. Quite uneventful today but had lots of fun whilst polishing with the team- until I was chosen to work in the kitchen tomorrow. My argument here is that the kitchen is a depressing place since everyone has to be an efficient perfectionist and almost never satisfied. Kitchens are renowned to be high pressured, fast paced, stressful, loud and incredibly unfriendly. However, Sebastian suggests that I could learn something from there and I suppose he is right, then again, I ponder if the lessons learnt there outweighs the necessary stress of working in the kitchen. I guess time will tell. Right now, I am trying to take it head on with a positive attitude in hopes that what can go wrong, would NOT go wrong. I just hope I end up working with happy and polite people. So till tomorrow’s blog, fingers crossed!

Today’s Trivia Roll:

• We banged it, stuck our hands in, dried the moist, and put the long things back into the holes. Sounds gross, but we are referring to polishing glasses and drying the racks.
• Planning. It is ABSOLUTELY necessary to save time and effort
• The FLOORING (reference to some person) had nice shoes and was really good looking according to some
• Steffi has a new guy in her life- Helmut the fish, and I am sorry about the “whip”
• I think Steffi wants Love Beads!
• I accidentally danced to Sebastian’s crappy music, which Ching was singing to
• Ivan has his banana on the outside- awesome pants!
• The Japanese speaks Malay!
• Ute and I are great and marching and sometimes, we have itchy noses
• Thanks to the collective sweat of many persons, Steffi, Ute and I inhaled dangerous odours and gasses that made us high (by accident! We swear)
• The air today is REALLY clear! I think that’s why I have better internet strength.
• Supposedly because it rained last night
• No one can seem to agree if it was a thunderstorm or rockets exploding in the skies last night (to make it rain)
• Chinese speaking Europeans is an experience on its own!

After several hundred glasses, and still going strong