Saturday was Victorias Birthday. She invited Miki, her sister Valeria, a friend Ian and me to have diner at the Little Buddha. I came a little late because I had to work until 8pm.
Wow, the food at Little Buddha is very good. I don't really know what I had ordered, I just said that I would like to have the same as Ian because it looked so good.
Afterwards we went to Camel Roof where we had a tabel reserved. That's really cool when the other guests have to get up because we come, ha ha ha.
Victoria and Valeria were really dressed up very nice, both with a black dress and some high heels. Also Miki and Ian did both wear a white shirt and real shoes. You have to know that Miki normally wears no shoes or Flip Flops. As I just came to work and had to go back to work at 10.45pm I didn't wear the little black sexy dress.
It was really nice and I wished I would have been off to spend the rest of the evening with you, celebrating Victoria's B-Day.
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Sonntag, 28. September 2008
Montag, 22. September 2008
Sun, Fun and nothing to do?!?!?! 21./22.09.08
My goodness, was this a weekend!!!!! Just to show you that I am not hanging around enyjoing life.
Saturday I did some office work to prepare for the weekend. The weekends are the busiest days as we then have all the departures and arrivals. Looking at the schedule I knew that this “weekend” would be crazy.
You have to know that the manager of the local partner here in Sharm doesn’t want the guests to be too long alone in the hotel before we do the welcome meeting. He is afraid that they go and book with someone else. So as we have arrivals on Sunday at 01.40, on Sunday during the day and on Monday at 2.00 I have to do in most of the hotels two welcome meetings.
So I had to get up on Sunday at about midnight because the car came to pick me up at 01.00 to go the airport. The arrival planed for 01.40 was late and it took very long for the guests to come out. My transfer was brining guests to 3 different hotels what made that I came back on Sunday morning at 05.30.
At 08.30 I had to get up again because we had departure transfers. So Sunday I was spending at the airport because we had so many arrivals and departures. I then came back to my room at about 15.00.
At 17.30 I got picked up again because at 18.00 my 1st welcome meeting of the evening would start. I had welcome meetings at 3 different hotels and came back at 22.00 (Sunday).
On Monday at 00.30 I had to get up again because at 01.15 I got picked up to go to the airport for the Air Cairo arrival. The plane landed pretty much in time but there were some issues regarding the visas. My transfer took me to two hotels and I got back at 04.00.
The problem is that very often I can’t fall asleep straight away. This night I also slept very bad and at 09.30 my colleague called me and then I couldn’t sleep anymore. I did some work, preparing e-mails, fine tuning the weekly report and at 13.00 I had my 1st welcome meeting of this day. After that I headed to the 2nd welcome meeting, then to the 3rd, the 4th and having also visiting hours after my 4th welcome meeting I came out of the last hotel at 21.10. As there have been a lot of bookings I had to go to the office and I got out of there at 22.50.
The entire day I was carrying my laptop around with me because in my hotel the internet did not work. And as I knew that I won’t have a lot of time I wanted to just send the e-mails I had prepared in the morning (copy / paste). But at the Inter Plaza there was no time just as at the Millennium, at the Park Inn the Internet did not work and the besides that at the Hotel Renaissance there wouldn’t have been any spare time, the lobby has no free wireless connection.
And tomorrow I am having my 1st visiting hour at 10.00, this goes on until 16.15, then I will be back at about 16.45 to be picked up again at 19.00 to finish my last visiting hour at the Hotel Renaissance at 20.45.
So if there is anybody who thinks that I am not working hard, you are more than welcome to join me on one of my weekends.
And every weekend I wonder which stupid person has invented the night flights??????????????????
Saturday I did some office work to prepare for the weekend. The weekends are the busiest days as we then have all the departures and arrivals. Looking at the schedule I knew that this “weekend” would be crazy.
You have to know that the manager of the local partner here in Sharm doesn’t want the guests to be too long alone in the hotel before we do the welcome meeting. He is afraid that they go and book with someone else. So as we have arrivals on Sunday at 01.40, on Sunday during the day and on Monday at 2.00 I have to do in most of the hotels two welcome meetings.
So I had to get up on Sunday at about midnight because the car came to pick me up at 01.00 to go the airport. The arrival planed for 01.40 was late and it took very long for the guests to come out. My transfer was brining guests to 3 different hotels what made that I came back on Sunday morning at 05.30.
At 08.30 I had to get up again because we had departure transfers. So Sunday I was spending at the airport because we had so many arrivals and departures. I then came back to my room at about 15.00.
At 17.30 I got picked up again because at 18.00 my 1st welcome meeting of the evening would start. I had welcome meetings at 3 different hotels and came back at 22.00 (Sunday).
On Monday at 00.30 I had to get up again because at 01.15 I got picked up to go to the airport for the Air Cairo arrival. The plane landed pretty much in time but there were some issues regarding the visas. My transfer took me to two hotels and I got back at 04.00.
The problem is that very often I can’t fall asleep straight away. This night I also slept very bad and at 09.30 my colleague called me and then I couldn’t sleep anymore. I did some work, preparing e-mails, fine tuning the weekly report and at 13.00 I had my 1st welcome meeting of this day. After that I headed to the 2nd welcome meeting, then to the 3rd, the 4th and having also visiting hours after my 4th welcome meeting I came out of the last hotel at 21.10. As there have been a lot of bookings I had to go to the office and I got out of there at 22.50.
The entire day I was carrying my laptop around with me because in my hotel the internet did not work. And as I knew that I won’t have a lot of time I wanted to just send the e-mails I had prepared in the morning (copy / paste). But at the Inter Plaza there was no time just as at the Millennium, at the Park Inn the Internet did not work and the besides that at the Hotel Renaissance there wouldn’t have been any spare time, the lobby has no free wireless connection.
And tomorrow I am having my 1st visiting hour at 10.00, this goes on until 16.15, then I will be back at about 16.45 to be picked up again at 19.00 to finish my last visiting hour at the Hotel Renaissance at 20.45.
So if there is anybody who thinks that I am not working hard, you are more than welcome to join me on one of my weekends.
And every weekend I wonder which stupid person has invented the night flights??????????????????
Samstag, 20. September 2008
Open Water 02 17./19.09.2008
Finally I made it!!!! I finished the PADI Open Water Cours for the second time but this time the documents will be sent to the PADI Organisation and I will get my brevet.
The day with Ruud and Romano on the Falcon Suez was great. We had a good group. Some other Swiss, actually friends from Romano’s brother, some Germans and Brits. After lunch we all jumped into the sea from the sundeck. I was the first what is hard to believe, as I am even afraid to make the step into the water with the diving equipment. The English girl jumped in with her D&G sunglasses, which she lost but by chance a swimmer from another boat found them.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lilou.clark/OpenWater021719092008#
The day with Ruud and Romano on the Falcon Suez was great. We had a good group. Some other Swiss, actually friends from Romano’s brother, some Germans and Brits. After lunch we all jumped into the sea from the sundeck. I was the first what is hard to believe, as I am even afraid to make the step into the water with the diving equipment. The English girl jumped in with her D&G sunglasses, which she lost but by chance a swimmer from another boat found them.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lilou.clark/OpenWater021719092008#
Samstag, 13. September 2008
Open Water 01 10./11./12.09.2008
10 years after I had actually done my PADI Open Water in Sharm, I did sign up for the class again. This because 10 years ago I did not send in the documents to PADI and therefore didn't get the certificat. But this time things would be different.
My dive instructor was Phil Penn, a guy who has just arrived 6 weeks ago from England. Mybuddes were Kirstin and Matt, a young couple from England who just started their 2 year travelling in Sharm.
We had a real good time and it actually was fun. Watching the DVD's was a little but hard because I am always so tired but I made it. On the 3rd day we went on the boat to dive in the sea and lucky us, we have seen a turtle on our 1st dive. As I was tired I just made 2 dives while Kirstin and Matt made 3 dives.
Starting from today Camel organizes a party for their staff and the guests and to celebrate the PADI Scuba Diver certificate of Kirstin and Matt we went to the party at the Camel Bar.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lilou.clark/OpenWater01101112092008#
My dive instructor was Phil Penn, a guy who has just arrived 6 weeks ago from England. Mybuddes were Kirstin and Matt, a young couple from England who just started their 2 year travelling in Sharm.
We had a real good time and it actually was fun. Watching the DVD's was a little but hard because I am always so tired but I made it. On the 3rd day we went on the boat to dive in the sea and lucky us, we have seen a turtle on our 1st dive. As I was tired I just made 2 dives while Kirstin and Matt made 3 dives.
Starting from today Camel organizes a party for their staff and the guests and to celebrate the PADI Scuba Diver certificate of Kirstin and Matt we went to the party at the Camel Bar.
By now they probably are on their way to the Mount Everest, that was their next planned destination on their trip. Guys, it was very nice meeting you. I wish you all the best and enjoy your travelling.
Take carehttp://picasaweb.google.com/lilou.clark/OpenWater01101112092008#
Samstag, 6. September 2008
BBQ Nader
That was exactly what I needed. A day of distraction.
Last week was a hard week. Not workwise but concerning emotions and being homesick.
It's very hard. Due to the fact, that I don't have regular working hours, it's difficulet to meet new people and to do "things" with them.
But my really very nice brother took me to his best friend who organised a small BBQ. Unfortunatelly I don't have any pictures from the BBQ but of us having fun with Naders new toy ;-)
http://picasaweb.google.com/lilou.clark/BBQNader#
Last week was a hard week. Not workwise but concerning emotions and being homesick.
It's very hard. Due to the fact, that I don't have regular working hours, it's difficulet to meet new people and to do "things" with them.
But my really very nice brother took me to his best friend who organised a small BBQ. Unfortunatelly I don't have any pictures from the BBQ but of us having fun with Naders new toy ;-)
http://picasaweb.google.com/lilou.clark/BBQNader#
Freitag, 5. September 2008
angestaut
im moment bin ich eher ein bisschen anfällig. es braucht nicht viel, ich bin leicht gereizt.
ich denke die hitze, das essen, das viele alleinsein, das nicht verstanden werden, die stromausfälle (das schlimmste ist bei 45° keine ac zu haben) sowie die katastrophale internetverbindung haben gemacht, dass sich ein kleiner frust angestaut hat.
aber von aufgeben ist keine rede. klar, wenn ich einen super job finden sollte, würde ich mir das schon überlegen, aber im moment ist es ja noch in ordnung. zum glück habe ich ja die gäste, der kontakt mit ihnen stellt einem automatisch wieder auf.
ja, es hat niemand gesagt, dass es einfach sein wird. bereuen tu ich aber nichts. ausser.....
ich denke die hitze, das essen, das viele alleinsein, das nicht verstanden werden, die stromausfälle (das schlimmste ist bei 45° keine ac zu haben) sowie die katastrophale internetverbindung haben gemacht, dass sich ein kleiner frust angestaut hat.
aber von aufgeben ist keine rede. klar, wenn ich einen super job finden sollte, würde ich mir das schon überlegen, aber im moment ist es ja noch in ordnung. zum glück habe ich ja die gäste, der kontakt mit ihnen stellt einem automatisch wieder auf.
ja, es hat niemand gesagt, dass es einfach sein wird. bereuen tu ich aber nichts. ausser.....
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