Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Sorry for the lack of posts!

My computer is really messed up and is no longer useful unless I pay £400 to get it fixed, so I'm on one of the available computers here at camp.

The last week and a half have been quite fun. I went to a club in Camden called Jazz Cafe with a few of the English interns and a handful of Americans. It was a good time in Central London. The rest of that weekend was pretty laid back. Work last week kept me relatively busy. One day I had to go through all of the binders that hold timesheets for all of the venues in Olympic Park and put them in chronological order. I was also trained on inputting timesheets into the system to ensure that our employees actually get paid. All of the venues have done their preliminary scheduling for the month of July through the Games. My boss asked me to go through the roster lists for the individual venues, create a master list of employees who have already been scheduled and to which venue, and then cross-reference that list with the entite employee pool of roughly 1,300 to see who still needed to be scheduled. My boss, Kiri, and I get along very well. She's a tiny Australian, but she's basically running the show. Right now, we're in tiny storage units on site, but we'll be moving into offices in the next week or so. I'll be working not only for her, but the manager that runs all of the Park and the co-founder of the company.

This past weekend was extremely exciting. For £200 I went to Amsterdam and Brugge, which included travel by coach, a hotel for 2 nights, 2 breakfasts, 2 dinners, and an open bar after dinner. It was so much fun! I walked through downtown Amsterdam: Red Light District, CoffeeShops, and all. We went to a Cheese and Clog factory, a tour around the city, and the Heineken Experience where I got my Draugh Master certificate. The next morning we were back on the coach to Brugge, where we walked around and went to a chocolate factory! We got back to camp around 11:30 Sunday night exhausted, but having had a great time!

The last couple of days have been a bit stressful, with my computer bascially dead and camp doubling in population. It kind of feels like everything is coming at me at once, so I'm trying to stay afloat.

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