acemi is abroad

The night of 20th December was the most laborious night I ever had. It was time for white collar employees of DHL to work in Brussels Hub voluntarily and experience the core work in this once-in-a-year event. They gave us options of work places and I had no idea what to choose because I had never been to a hub before. I picked "Offload" just because it sounded good and when I got there I found out that it's pure physical work.

The evening started at 7 after work in an italian restaurant and after this long dinner we arrived to hub around 11 pm. In my team there were just 2 other women and totally we were around 15 people. When I first went to the gathering place some young guys were making fun of me, I guess because I cannot speak Flemish, but later on they were very kind. I worked with a young guy who could speak English and a bit German and we could communicate pretty well. It took quite a while until I could explain him why I was there and what I was doing at DHL and all team thought it was my first day (well night) at work. We were busy emptying containers that came out of airplanes and throw parcels on bands so they could go to auto or manual sorting. It was a tough job and working whole day at the office and working at night again made it even more exhausting. The shift was supposed to last until 4 am. but I was lucky and we had to finish at 3.30. Others went on working in another part of the hub but I had no energy to keep on working.

I arrived home at 5 am., fell asleep immediately and didn't wake up until my alarm started to ring (which is a very rare case for me) at 11.30 am. I wasn't done with carrying stuff because I had to move to my new home

I was wondering if labours there found it arrogant us to work there one night or they did appreciate.

Last week I've attented probably the biggest party of the town, the Deutsche Post World Net Summer Party 2007! Whole summer wasn't like a real summer, so its timing wasn't a problem at all and sun was shining

It was a good opportunity for networking and getting together. Thank you for the organisation -I don't know which department has organised though

Maybe you've already noticed that lately I'm posting within working hours. This is not a good sign, is it? Until the end of last week I always had things to do, I was getting duties from different managers and I had no time to get bored but now I've got nothing to do and I'm afraid it goes on until the beginning of next month. You might think that I'm happy with the situation but no, I didn't come here to sit in an office alone doing nothing and I prefer to party out of office

Today it'sYesterday it was Nikolaustag and here is my little Santa Claus chocolate from my christmas calender.

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On Monday there was a networking event for interns of DPWN. It was quite useful for me, since I'm a brand new trainee here. During one of the sessions the discourser has fainted. If that would happen in Turkey, all the participants would surround the poor girl and the session would be cancelled. But people were very calm here, just a few people looked after her and just before she could get up she was replaced by a colleague. I should admit that I'm impressed.

After waiting 5 months to be matched, today it's clear that I'm going to Bonn/Germany on 29th of November. My internship starts on 1th December in Deutsche Post World Net. For me it's hard to believe that at last I'm going! Well, I have 6 weeks to get used to the idea of moving to Germany for 6 months.