Monday, 3 November 2008
Days and nights
Days:
Mostly spent by submitting my CV and motivation letter to job postings and by doing the robot-work for BME. Occasionally cycling in the city with Kaszi or hiking in one of our not-so-big mountains. Going to job interviews... But now it seems it will all slightly change. I got a job offer! This afternoon I had my last interview at a pharmaceutical company and it went really well. I was prepared, I was confident, I made them smile. The interviewer (there was another listener too) closed the meeting by welcoming me to the company. They don't exactly know when I will start because they had to rewrite the proposal for my salary (darn economic crisis), but once that will be accepted, we can sign the documents.
So, I'll be a proper working woman. I'm looking forward to it :)
Nights:
The most exciting part of a day. I've been dancing sooo much! It seems to me that the Autumn/Winter salsa scene is a bit worse than the Summer one, but oh well. Still good enough. The thing is that during the Summer there are only a few places to go to, and those are open air places and can house a lot of dancers. Thus, everybody is there. It all changes during the Fall. The dancefloors are inside and are smaller, and there are so many salsa places operating simultaneously that it's quite hard to run into friends unless you arrange it in advance. I've only been to one party that was not a salsa party recently, but only salseros and salseras came with us... It was the birthday of a salsa teacher and about 30 of us went to a retro party. It seems that a different music style doesn't bother salsa people too much - we still had ruedas in the middle of the dancefloor :) (A rueda is the choreographed dance of multiple couples. The couples stand in a circle and follow the instructions shouted out by the leader. So, once you hear the name of a salsa step - montana, dedo, besito, sombrero etc. - you do it. Usually the name is accompanied by a specific hand sign to ease understanding in noise. Once the leader says dáme una, the boys move counterclockwise to the next girl - dáme dos would be skipping one girl - or boys move clockwise if the leader shouts arriba. It's a lot of fun but it takes a bit of time to remember which name corresponds to which steps.)
Mostly spent by submitting my CV and motivation letter to job postings and by doing the robot-work for BME. Occasionally cycling in the city with Kaszi or hiking in one of our not-so-big mountains. Going to job interviews... But now it seems it will all slightly change. I got a job offer! This afternoon I had my last interview at a pharmaceutical company and it went really well. I was prepared, I was confident, I made them smile. The interviewer (there was another listener too) closed the meeting by welcoming me to the company. They don't exactly know when I will start because they had to rewrite the proposal for my salary (darn economic crisis), but once that will be accepted, we can sign the documents.
So, I'll be a proper working woman. I'm looking forward to it :)
Nights:
The most exciting part of a day. I've been dancing sooo much! It seems to me that the Autumn/Winter salsa scene is a bit worse than the Summer one, but oh well. Still good enough. The thing is that during the Summer there are only a few places to go to, and those are open air places and can house a lot of dancers. Thus, everybody is there. It all changes during the Fall. The dancefloors are inside and are smaller, and there are so many salsa places operating simultaneously that it's quite hard to run into friends unless you arrange it in advance. I've only been to one party that was not a salsa party recently, but only salseros and salseras came with us... It was the birthday of a salsa teacher and about 30 of us went to a retro party. It seems that a different music style doesn't bother salsa people too much - we still had ruedas in the middle of the dancefloor :) (A rueda is the choreographed dance of multiple couples. The couples stand in a circle and follow the instructions shouted out by the leader. So, once you hear the name of a salsa step - montana, dedo, besito, sombrero etc. - you do it. Usually the name is accompanied by a specific hand sign to ease understanding in noise. Once the leader says dáme una, the boys move counterclockwise to the next girl - dáme dos would be skipping one girl - or boys move clockwise if the leader shouts arriba. It's a lot of fun but it takes a bit of time to remember which name corresponds to which steps.)
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