Day 18 & 19, Mar 17, 18 Temp: 2 & -9C

Day 18

Hello Folks! Im sorry for not being able to blog these two days as I had to attend to a number of events... Most importantly my interview! While I was halfway chatting with Vivian two days ago, I received a phonecall from my Job coordinator Susanna, " Hi Jordan, its me Susannsa... are you still at your apartment?" INSTANTLY I knew I read the time wrongly... so I said," Oh man, I read the time wrongly didn't I? It was supposed to be 12.40pm instead of 1.40pm?" And she replied," Nooooo its me im sorry. I gave you the wrong timing to come. Will it be possible if you get your ass (I added this in) here in 15 minutes?" "15 MINUTES TIME?!?!! Ok ok Il be there but il be a little late!!"

And there I went rushing... I got changed in 5 minutes (I usually take 15 minutes because of all the winter clothes and all) and cycled my ass down to Sokos Alexandra Hotel. Arrived a couple of minutes late and managed to meet Susanna and the Director of Housekeeping, I think her name was Anna. Anna knew little English so Susanna was there to translate. She seemed like a pretty nice lady and the environment seemed cosy and comfortable, even though it is the largest hotel in Jyvaskyla and they had a high standard of service.... The most fortunate thing is that I won't be stuck in Houskeeping, or duelling dragons/ merchandising like the previous few students who came and are in USA HA.HA. Considering my previous work background, they are able to rotate me around the hotel departments so il be doing Meeting and Conferences as well as Food and Beverage!! Il be starting this coming Monday and im really looking forward to this!!

I didn't manage to meet Antti as I was supposed crash his lecture and I missed it... So I cycled all the way to Prisma at Keljonkeskus to do some grocery shopping. Anyway, I have grown so addicted to yoghurt (They are very cheap and delicious) that im eating them almost everyday!! I bought a particular brand of Bananas and they SUCK (Rotted in two days). Therefore im changing to my alternative choice of fruits to..... erm.... CHOCOLATES as they are way cheaper than a few hundred grams of bananas lol:D Nahhhh I think il stick to better brands of bananas (Del Monte kind haha:)

What they sell at Prisma is comparable to Walmart, just that you pay everything in Euros!! And I finally realise the difference between white eggs and the brown ones!! Antti said that the White eggs came from the European Chickens and the brown one we usually eat in Singapore comes from the "nigger" chickens LOL, he's racist boy!! Today was also the first time I saw large frozen prawns on sale and was really tempted to buy. But I was afraid they would cost me 50 Euros... which is common here!!

Anyway, I cycled back home after doing my "almost-daily-grocery-shopping" and that was the end of Day 18!



Day 19
I met Antti today and we went to the Jyvaskylan University (A really cool campus) for lunch. I was almost on time when halfway up Kuokkalan bridge, my bicycle chains just fell out!!!! I was going to be late for sure... SO I did something I swear il never do it again... I took off my gloves and tried to fix the chains. This got my whole hands filled with muddy oily grease. Worse thing was that the chains still failed!!! Frustrated already, I pushed the bicycle all the way to then campus which was one one kilometre away! By the time I arrived, I couldn't feel both my hands so I ran to the toilet and soaked it under really really hot water... Was it successful? Hmmm, Im still typing with BOTH my hands so what do you think LOL?:D

We went for lunch, then afterwards randomly met a few guys from Thailand, South Korea and USA. They seemed really friendly but the Guy from Thailand was slightly tipsy as he drank too much to keep himself warm LOL:D And he got really EXCITED When I told him I was from Singapore and he went," OHHHHHHH AHHHHHHH, YOU ARE REALLY FROM SINGAPORE?!?!? HEY BROTHER COME HERE!!!! *AND WE HUGGED* And then we started talking about some local stuff and the other two guys were also great! And the American went, "Wow.... ************************************************************!!!" Don't worry, those weren't vulgurities but a series of interesting things foreigners say about us Singaporeans LOL! I will put them all on a list later!

Antti then took me around town on bicycle and we went shopping at the Pedestrian stree AGAIN! Somehow I have a feeling that Antti has some "Singaporean Auntie mentality in him LOL:D" We entered Sokos, the most expensive departmental store in town. And then I asked him," Why are you shopping here?! Things are so expensive here!!!" And then he took me further in and there was this GIANT Clearance sale where things were going for "10 for 2 EUROS" kind!!! I was laughing all the time as we were the only two guys in that whole area LOL:D Bu it was great fun!! I bought five tubes of toothpaste that will probably last me 3 World Wars and two large bottles of Dove Body soap hahaha! And Antti bought shampoo and body stuffs and took me to the hair care area where he showed me the shampoo he used... IT COSTS BLOODY 30+ EUROS!!! THAT WAS MADNESS! It was some dsigner shampoo that certainly didn't do his hair much good LOL jk!

They actually had plans to go out that evening but I think they needed to spend time with their girlfriends having left them for 6 months lol... Passionate Nights:D Thats all folks! Will blog again sooon!

Kovski

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