Just to let you all know...
while I am waiting for the pc line and my pc to be delivered I am going to be writing all my entries in a notebook and then entering them in whenever I am on a pc. As far as the days that I have missed, I just got a notebook today so I am going to be entering those at a later date too...along with the coordinating pics to go with them.
As far as today's entry...here we go.
The first meeting of the SkyMax Crew...
I woke up this morning and I think I am starting to get used to knowing I'm gonna be here for awhile b/c it didn't bother me that there was no running water. I hardly slept lastnight maybe b/c there was more salt in the chinese food here than in the states (for preservation probably). I have been told and experienced that salt causes insomnia in some people. Anyway, I took stock of the money spent yesterday and then left early due to having to go by the bank. After spending time in a nice cool bank I proceded to what might be a future job for me, SkyMax. SkyMax is basically Customer Service for calling cards sold in the US. From what I have heard, it's not as professional as T-Mobile. They have inhouse monitoring of the representatives, which typically means that the monitoring isn't taken seriously. This leads to the representatives not caring about how they treat the customers. So once I arrived with my room mates I was told that I couldn't stay in the Customer Care Area and just hang out with them while they worked (which wasn't a surprise to me). So I ended up sitting in the Technical Support Department with one of my room mates, Pablo. There was no one else in there working so it was easy for me to stay.
A wierd thing happened today though. While we were at SkyMax these two guys came in with guns drawn looking for some guy names Martin. I guess here they have shotguns all over the place b/c they are cheaper than things like a glock 9, so I have heard. Anyway, come to find out they were the police. I was told that they were trying to steal a moped outside.
Btw one other thing that I want to do on my blog is add in what things I spend everyday so that you all can see what it is like to live here and the cost of living and stuff like that.
Well that's all for right now
<3 Lotus
New Spanish Phrase: Nosotros necesitamos algunas perchas.(We need some hangers.)
New Japanese Phrase: Dakimatai no ni. (I just want to hold you.)
*What I spent yesterday:
500=shoes, 100=shoes, 220=lunch for two, 190=dinner for two, 60=calling card, 100=cab, 32=public car for four, 50=two sodas
*For those of you who don't know how to convert just take the rate for the day which is about 28 pesos per US dollar so for example when I bought one pair of shoes for 500 pesos and you divide 28 into it that means that I spent about 16US(500/28=16.67) for the shoes. And I might add that these were nice tennis shoes that I ordered out of a catalog and the original price was 850RD(30.36US). If you need one more example when I spent 220RD it was equal to about 7.86US(220/28=7.86) and this was like a meal that would fill up anyone.
As far as today's entry...here we go.
The first meeting of the SkyMax Crew...
I woke up this morning and I think I am starting to get used to knowing I'm gonna be here for awhile b/c it didn't bother me that there was no running water. I hardly slept lastnight maybe b/c there was more salt in the chinese food here than in the states (for preservation probably). I have been told and experienced that salt causes insomnia in some people. Anyway, I took stock of the money spent yesterday and then left early due to having to go by the bank. After spending time in a nice cool bank I proceded to what might be a future job for me, SkyMax. SkyMax is basically Customer Service for calling cards sold in the US. From what I have heard, it's not as professional as T-Mobile. They have inhouse monitoring of the representatives, which typically means that the monitoring isn't taken seriously. This leads to the representatives not caring about how they treat the customers. So once I arrived with my room mates I was told that I couldn't stay in the Customer Care Area and just hang out with them while they worked (which wasn't a surprise to me). So I ended up sitting in the Technical Support Department with one of my room mates, Pablo. There was no one else in there working so it was easy for me to stay.
A wierd thing happened today though. While we were at SkyMax these two guys came in with guns drawn looking for some guy names Martin. I guess here they have shotguns all over the place b/c they are cheaper than things like a glock 9, so I have heard. Anyway, come to find out they were the police. I was told that they were trying to steal a moped outside.
Btw one other thing that I want to do on my blog is add in what things I spend everyday so that you all can see what it is like to live here and the cost of living and stuff like that.
Well that's all for right now
<3 Lotus
New Spanish Phrase: Nosotros necesitamos algunas perchas.(We need some hangers.)
New Japanese Phrase: Dakimatai no ni. (I just want to hold you.)
*What I spent yesterday:
500=shoes, 100=shoes, 220=lunch for two, 190=dinner for two, 60=calling card, 100=cab, 32=public car for four, 50=two sodas
*For those of you who don't know how to convert just take the rate for the day which is about 28 pesos per US dollar so for example when I bought one pair of shoes for 500 pesos and you divide 28 into it that means that I spent about 16US(500/28=16.67) for the shoes. And I might add that these were nice tennis shoes that I ordered out of a catalog and the original price was 850RD(30.36US). If you need one more example when I spent 220RD it was equal to about 7.86US(220/28=7.86) and this was like a meal that would fill up anyone.
posted by Lotus @ 8/01/2005 08:43:00 PM
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