first week as morning girl

in Funky Monkey! I had my alarm going of at around 7.20am and it was tough going to get out of bed. Once I was in Funky with my very own set of keys and had it all started up. I had of course my first customers. It was an easy day but I was tired and had to run errands after work. I bumped once again into Torkel who I hadn't seen in ages and he has lost a lot of weight but says must be because he was sick. Oh yeah, if you want to loose weight just get an amoeba or something and you'll drop pounds quickly o,))) I was so ready to go home after shopping and go to bed for a bit and than we would go out at night. Instead I got home and I needed more fresh water and popped by Rosa’s. Eric and his buddy (both from Belgium) and Elisabeth were cooking in the kitchen and we started chatting. They invited me spontaneously for dinner since they said that they had cooked more than they could eat anyway. It was a fun conversation since they live close to the German border so we were chatting in German and in English since their Spanish is non-existent. Elisabeth is from the States and it is either Spanish or English with her. One of the girls who lives in the house will have her birthday this Thursday and Elisabeth wants to give her a surprise party. We all checked our working schedules and agreed that we could do it Thursday. Elmer had asked me earlier if we could go for a swim since it is unbelievable hot here. I said sorry love because now that I work day shift I only get off at 4pm. I asked Cesar anyway if I could have Thursday off and work a Saturday or Sunday morning instead. He is like okay you work for me Sunday morning and you are off on Thursday. At the moment it is only Marcela who pulls 3 shifts, me who is pulling 5 shifts and than Cesar. He would have gotten stuck otherwise with a double shift for Sunday and was only more than happy to swap me for it. If we all hate something than it is called doing double shifts! Lea is no longer working here if it is because she quit or Cesar fired her I am not to clear on. I think she has got enough problems on her plate as it is and it started colliding too much with her work. I mean if you don't show up or get a replacement for your shift no wonder the boss is mad at you. I would be to and closing the business earlier than necessary etc. doesn't exactly get you brownie points either. Oh well, it isn't my problem! Lea knows though if she wants to talk to someone or so that she can call me which she hasn't done yet and I still have her wash in my place waiting for her to be picked up. Back to Monday> Elmer joined us after we had finished our dinner and by now I was so tired and cranky that all I wanted was to sleep. He headed off for a shower and I was lying lazy around. I couldn't be asked to do anything. He was like I am hungry lets go out. I wasn't really up to it but in the end we went out. It is currently Feria in Jocotenango and we heard the fireworks even if we didn't see them. It meant more people out than usual. We went to Rickie's and met some friends there. It was a fun evening except Fernando and Elmer were happy drunk and together they are impossible. We girls were just sitting there thinking please just finish your drinks we want to go to bed and sleep.

When the alarm went off on Tuesday I was like oh no this is way too early. I was so tired and no people in Funky didn't help waking up. I went home during my lunch break and napped for 3 minutes and felt so much better. Elmer had told me that it is a holiday in Guatemala City and therefore Antigua was really full and cars parked everywhere. I knew what that would mean for the work in Cafe Flor more people than usual ... I got home after 4pm and had to be at work at Flor for 6pm. I wanted to sleep but that never happened instead I watched TV and Elmer showed up and we chatted a bit before we were both off to work. At Flor I was in for a surprise since one of the fridges had really broken down and the new girl didn't know what to do when etc. I had to do all the jobs that usually the lunch hour shift does. The cooks than told me like 6.50pm oh by the way we will have 20 people here at 7pm they made a reservation! Oh yes and what a big group that was and we had the other tables to wait on to. I can't remember the last time we ha to run so much. At least this time it wasn't for nothing since the big group left us about 200Q in tips. In that regard it was a good night and we all got out early like 10.30pm and that was great. Judith and I have finally worked out a routine and she will be leaving next week no fun! Judith and me went for a drink in Monoloco and surprise, surprise it was even fuller than normally. We had one drink and watched people go by and than called it a night around 11pm. I went home and thought oh I'll just prepare the stuff for tomorrow morning and than later on I'll watch for 30minuetes a bit of TV to unwind. Wrong! I was gone in like two minutes and TV was still on when he got home and went hola. I was semi awake and gone again in a second.

This morning he had to get up before me because Monoloco had an event planned. The crew would go visit some poor kids and bring them breakfast and dress up as clowns etc. I wonder if the kids enjoyed it and he too. I was up earlier than usual therefore and watched a bit TV while getting ready. Today I am not very tired but I'll go home for a nap anyway since I got to work tonight in Flor again. However, I will have tomorrow off and that will be fun.