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Hey all!!!!!!!!
Soz that this blog entry has been weeks in the making but I have been soooooooo busy, and the house has literally been MENTAL (I'll tell you all about that later!) so Im afraid that is why it has taken me so long to get here!!!!! SORRY!!!
Good thing is though- I have loads and loads to tell you about!!! Im such a geek that I didnt wanna forget anything to tell you guys that I have even been writing notes to prompt myself!!!!
Anyway, as I have been notably absent for a while now, I have decided to do seperate entries, to break it up a little for ya!
I think I left off at the "crisis meeting" with Phillipe, if I remember correctly...
Well, I had my last day at CIADS and they had a little festa for me, and they made me a big chocolate cake, reminiscent of Matilda! (I was like sorry- appreciate the thought, but that s*** aint good for the waistline!!!)
And it was all really nice and I got a little certificate saying thankyou for al my work. Wagner was also there (surprise surprise!) and he brought me a canvas that he had painted for me. It's of a lighthouse, (I don't know if there is some kind of underlying meaning attatched to it or not...) and at the bottom he wrote me a little dedication that says something along the lined of being forever in his heart and loving Jesus...nice, thanks!
I probably seem really harsh, but he is a bit wierd, so I think my harshness is justified- him trying to slobber all over my face whilst I was attemting to teach English did become rather tiresome rather quickly, funnily enough!!!
I don't really know what to do with the pic, actually- at present it is in the living room of the house being "appreciated" by everybody!
I half want to keep it because its just a hilarious momento of the randomness that was Wagners obsession with me, but on the other hand, it will be a weeny bit hard to carry a canvas around the world for a year!! Dilemma, dilemma!!!
Anyway, I digress....
Gets home from CIADS to be greeted by Teresa, saying that Phillipe had been waiting for an hour and a half for me to arrive, as he wanted to discuss all the complaints that I had, and that other people had. Fair enough, I thought- at least he was making the effort to try and sort somethings out!
Turns out though, as per usual, that all the people that had "serious complaints" about the service that they had recieved did nit have the courage of their convictions, or the bottle to tell somebody face to face, and so half of them stayed downstairs watching the TV, and half of them went food shopping! This no longer surprised me, though, and it was left up to Teresa and I to tell it to Phillipe straight.So we did- and Teresa took notes lol just to ensure that Phillipe had no excuse to forget what had happenned in the meeting.
Sorry- gotta interrupt this bulletin- Im struggling to contain my amusement- the couple next tp me are watching some really dodgy porn vid online- and Im trying not to look, but I think that they may be starring in it!!!!!hahahahahahahaha. Its really mingin though! Eurgh!!!!
Soz about that!!! Yeah, so basically it was up to me to tell about all the shoddy service, bad organisation, false advertising, and the fact that some people dont seem to understand what their job description is!!!( not mentioning any names there, obviously!!) Shoot from the hip, as I always do.....
Phillipe, bless his little cotton socks, seemed genuinely interested an intent on changing( I think the bits where I said that I would never recommend this project to any of my friends and that the business was fundamentally failing to meet its objectives made him take notice!!!)lol.
He took it all on the chin, and was really gracious about it, and even complimented me on how assertive and mature I am! ( I am getting a little tired of this now, though, as it is all anybody ever bloody says to me!!!!)
Furthermore, was pretty impressed with myself also when even Teresa complimented me!! ( In the nicest way possible, she was in big buissness, successful London- city woman, and doesn't really do compliments!)
She pulled me to one side afterwards snd said that she was really impressed with the way I handled myself in an assertive, firm and fair fashion, whist refusing to take any crap, that if she ever needed any staff in the North of England, that she would employ me, and that she hadn't seen anybody express themselves as efficiently in a long time!
I was quite taken aback! And it is unusual for her to say anything like that! It was just me being me, I suppose!
Anyways, after all that excitement, I had to go to bed early, as we were about to embark on an adventure the folowing evening......
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