Working Life

The fun times have to be over at some time and as I told you in my last post the time has come for me. Every day I get up between 7 and 7.30 (more 7.30 :P) and go to work for eight or nine hours. When I have lecture days I get up at the same time to go to Enschede. Look at some nerds and meet study friends, which is always great fun. After two months I can make my first conclusion: I really like it. That probably means that I have chosen the right internship. Until now I never thought in the morning „OMG I have to go work again and I don’t want to“. Of course I look forward to weekends, but that is most of all because then I finally have time for myself and do some fun things. Unfortunately I spend most of the evenings during the week studying at home, so weekends are precious fun time. I am looking forward to being truly grown up: having the evenings during the week free as well and, even more important make more than 2,60 € an hour. The fact that I get free laundry detergents and cosmetic products does not really make up for that. But I learn a lot, get to write my thesis and it is only for 6 months, so it’s okay for now. I am looking forward to work for real.

Right now I am enjoying another aspect that comes with working life. Since free time is scarce, travelling is getting much more scarce than I am used to (which is obviously not the good part), but the scarcity of free time gives me the perfect excuse to travel in my favourite way: by plane. I am on my way to Berlin right now and since cheap train tickets were already sold out and going by bus is just NOT an option, I am hanging out at Schiphol right now, drinking White Chocolate Mocca and waiting to board my plane. Getting here was a bit of a hassle, because the Dutch Railways are showing their sweetest side this week (again). On Monday some wagons of a train got out of the rails between Utrecht and Rotterdam/The Hague. It continued riding for like 5 km and destroyed the rails and the platform of the station it passed. So no trains riding there. People going from Utrecht to Rotterdam have to travel via Schiphol (check the map, it’s kind of ridiculous). Fortunately I wasn’t affected by that, but the train I was taking to Schiphol got cancelled and I just had 10 mins to drop off my luggage when I got here. Luckily I checked in online yesterday night, because real check-in was already closed. So unfortunately I didn’t have a lot of time to hang out. Which is sad, because Schiphol is my happy place. I just love being here. And I haven’t been in over a year.

In a few minutes I am going to fly to Frankfurt, where I have just been twice, travelling to Argentina and coming back. But I think I will like it almost as much as I like Schiphol. Maybe flying to Berlin via Frankfurt is not very „acting sustainably“, but I think AIESEC makes an exception on this value when it comes to travelling. My Mum also criticised the means of travelling and the itinerary, BUT it was cheapest (well except for the bus) and best fitted my schedule. And it is not my fault that Berlin is economically irrelevant and therefore does not have too many direct flights to and from other European capitals. On top of that: I use public transport every day and bike the rest of the time. So I can fly as much as I want to.