Last post des Gets?

Hello again!

So here I am, still in Les Gets, still skiing, still working at the Black Bear. I've worked for 2 weeks now and it's going really well, as before.

Work is going well. Tuesday was a bit rough at times. At one point I had a tray of about 50 euros of drinks, including a couple cocktails and was making my way to a table to serve them. I stopped for a minute because they were no longer at the table and I was trying to find them. Unfortunately, some idiot behind me thought I had stopped because I couldn't get through and started yelling at me to lift the tray up higher. When I did nothing (because that wasn't my problem) he pushed my arm up to emphasize his point (because apparently he thought I couldn't hear him yelling at me from right behind me). Now I don't know how much experience you have with carrying trays of drinks, but that is probably one of the worst things you could do, especially with cocktails which have particularly unbalanced glasses! Not only did the drinks all spill, all over a bunch of clients, but the cocktail glasses smashed into a million pieces all over the floor. Luckily, my boss was only worried about whether I got cut and helped me clean it up. The people who I had gotten wet also weren't mad at me because they saw that it wasn't my fault :-) All in all though I can't complain too much about Tuesday night. I still love my job (plus the group of English people who gave me 40 euros in tips just a little :-).

I haven't gotten too too much skiing in lately. My bad knee is bothering me some so I've been trying to rest it so that I don't make it any worse. But it's been snowing most of the day and is supposed to continue until tomorrow, so I think I'll head out tomorrow and see how it goes :-)

In other news I've been making plans and changing them regularly. This afternoon I made reservations in a hostel in Switzerland for 3 nights next week. So starting wednesday morning (whenever I can wake up seeing as I work until about 3am on Tuesday) I'm heading out, by ski, to Switzerland! I can't wait!!! I'm planning on coming back on Saturday because if my boss manages to find me a place to live I'm going to be working Saturday afternoon. But 4 days of skiing is fine by me!! I can't wait!!!!! (Better make sure my knee is nice and rested by then... )

My boss doesn't want me to leave (which makes sense seeing as if I dont' work the other 3 don't get any days off), so as I mentioned above he's trying to find me a place to live. I do hope that that works out because I really do like the job and making some money will be good seeing as as of September I'll have negative money, but I'm really not stressing too much. If I don't have a place to live here, I'm headed out to do some travelling! I think my first stop will be Geneva, basically because there are regularly buses from here to there, but also because I didn't make it to Switzerland at all this summer so it would be nice to see a little of it :-) From there I really don't know what I'll do. I might see if I can go visit Steph (my friend who is living in Germany for the year) again, or even if she might be able to do a bit of travelling with me. Other than that, the plan is to play things by ear. I think I'd likely travel for about two weeks and then spend the last couple of weeks back in Holland visiting my friends and working at the hostel (to not spend too much money :-P).

I guess that's it for now! I hope everyone in Halifax is prepared for the return of Kaila because it is fast approaching!! Talk to you soon!
Kaila