Sea

Because the sea is changing constantly - 
every next wave is different from the previous.

My days are dedicated to my work, my evenings are dedicated to the sea. I love living in Varna and one of the reasons is that the city center is situated on the sea coast. Riga is also sea-city, however I need to spend 1 hour in the bus to get to the beach from my place and 40 minutes from centre. Here I can go to the beach just to read a book, as I did it on Sunday, listening to some music in my headphones. But when I came there, the waves were so huge and it was so amazing, that I just needed to share my feelings with someone and called my mom despite the price for international calls.

Busy days

My eyes are really shutting down now, but I need to share my impressions and experience about the last two days. Firstly, the days are really saturated now. Like really.

Temelko asked me to write about the love and the airports in my post, but I need some inspiration for that, so this what my next post will probably be about. Airports will be just mentioned one more time in this post. Tuesday night I had a status on Facebook, that was saying: “Meeting, greetings, airports. Totally happy.” And I got a comment from Ira, who works at the airport in Riga, asking, how is it possible to be happy about airports. Of course, it was just a joke, but still, finally meeting my dear Despina after almost 2 months made me feel really happy. So the last two days we are a complete team finally, and I need to say that I think that we are good. I mean, I am not the one who can judge how good we are at work, but outside of the office – totally crazy. We already made up lots of nicknames, we’re laughing all the time about stupid stuff and I think people will soon start recognizing us on the streets. For example today we were going to the office and discussing, which excuse should we use if we get late – say that we got lost or that we were fixing our hair, and we couldn’t decide, which one is more stupid. J

Day 5 - International communication

Ice-cold frappe is just the
 right thing after work :)

Did you know that there is a rule in Bulgarian National Bank, that the minimum period of time you can have your account there is 6 months? And that you need to close your account in person? Well I also didn't until today. Stupid bureaucracy. As far as I remember my friend Lara still has an account in Swedish bank, even though she left Sweden in January and isn't going to come back in nearest future. :) Well, at least I have a Bulgarian phone number now.
Also today I finally started doing something useful - answering the clients and searching for the proper keywords for the websites. Of course only after I was fully instructed by my great colleagues Daniel and Temelko ;) It would be boring to describe my working day, as it is only interesting for me, so I'm just gonna say that I met a Russian guy at work today. Not Russian-speaking, but actually Russian, that was kind of nice. Although I speak Russian at work every day.
Another good thing that we did today - we made a table on our white board for writing. It consists of 6 columns, but only 5 of them are filled so far, as Despina is the one who is going to fill in the remaining one. So, you must be curious, what is it about? Well, that's how we are learning languages. As at least 4 of those are used every 5 minutes. So now in addition to English, which we already know, we are learning Russian, Spanish, Bulgarian and French. In just couple of hours we're going to the airport to meet Despina and it will be her first working day tomorrow, so she will add Greek to the table too. This is one of the many-many reasons that I like about my work. We're not only working there 9 to 18, we're also having great conversations, jokes, coffee and learning some useful stuff.
So now I am excited about meeting with Despina, as I haven't seen her since the Check party right before I left Sweden, May 14, and also everyone in the company is asking me about her, so tomorrow there will be a lot of new impressions.

Day 4 - first working day

Today I had so many information coming to my head, that I forgot my charger at work, so I am listening to the music on my phone in order to save battery and be able to write a short post about my first working day at First Online Solutions Ltd.
What can I say - it was really great. The day started with a meeting, where I needed to introduce myself, and even though I knew I am new at the company, I didn't expect that, so I was a bit worried about that part. Then all the other people told about what they are working on and how is it going. Daniel got an FC Barcelona cap as a present for his birthday and for good work, and Temelko got Messi's T-shirt and Captain's arm bondage.
Later on I started with revising the material about Internet Marketing and got lots of explanations regarding this topic and the general idea how does the company work and what do the people do and how, as well as looked through some of the company's websites. Today I didn't do any actual job, as I need to learn some stuff for that, but I am looking forward for starting really working.
Even though I was mostly reading and talking today, it was still kind of exhausting, so the only thing I could do  after work was cooking. I made a soup and it was first time I was actually cooking in Bulgaria. It is nice, as the kitchen is well equipped and the food is cheap. Lali and I had a dinner with watching stupid videos on the Internet and monkeys climbing the trees on Animal Planet. I think that was exactly what I needed - a calm "family" evening. And since my PC is going to turn off, I am going to read my book now.
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