Tuesday, January 11, 2011

My Internship...

Yoookay.  Here's the dealio:
In addition to taking 5 classes at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, I have to do 100 hours of work at my internship, "Viajes Viloria" - a travel agency (85 hours actually working and 15 hours meeting with one of my professors so I can have a portfolio of my work) - as well as 50 hours of service (place undetermined).  In our pre-departure class, we were told that the service was not going to be mandatory, but when we got to school yesterday, we were told that it was....GREAT!  Yes, service would be good and I'm not complaining about the idea of service, just that I am going to have NO time to do all of it plus my internship plus school.  Forget about having a social life or travelling...!!!  But trust that I sent a very strongly worded email to our director (whom, by the way is leaving Loras and going to another university in 10 days). Hopefully things can change, otherwise we are going to have an issue....
But anyway (enough complaining), today after school I went to meet "mi jefe" (my boss) for my internship.  But, when I got there with a professor from my school (thank the lord he was there), the boss was busy so we went to a cafe down the way to waste some time.  It was nice because Juan and I planned what days I could work/how many hours a week I would work, etc (4 hours per day, 2 days a week, mas o menos).  When we went back to the office, el jefe was still busy, so I met with the next person in charge and 2 of her employees (of course I cannot remember their names for the life of me).  They were all very nice, but they were talking so fast it was hard to decipher what they were saying...and they weren't really talking to me, they were more so talking to my professor, Juan (I didn't really mind because I wouldn't have been able to tell them exactly what he did).  So, after all of the talking and the head nodding and me saying "Si" a lot, we figured out that my first day would be this upcoming Thursday, from 4pm-8pm, and my second day would be Friday morning from 10am-2pm.  They said that I could change "mi horario" to two afternoons a week instead so that I could have Fridays off, but I will have to see when/where I am doing my service.
As of right now, I feel so stressed and overwhelmed.  But, it's still my first week here, so hopefully things will turn for the better :)
Keep your fingers crossed for me!

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