Now I'll tell you a bit about my awesome job at the pub!

The pub is called Silver Cross and it is located literally in the heart of London (Trafalgar Square is officially the middle point of London), right next to Trafalgar Square, between Big Ben and Trafalgar. It gets quite mental sometimes, with loads of tourists pouring in and all the locals popping in. The pub is a traditional English pub with a variety of British ales and English food on offer. I think that goes as a official introduction.

I got the job by going to an open day at the end of April. I was looking for another part-time job back then and it was the first job I applied for, and I got it. I was happy because in winter it took months to find a job. I just went there and had a chat with the manager and did not even have to go to an interview (like other guys who started at the same time had to). I couldn't have been happier. :) AND my horoscope said that exactly that day of April would be a great day for job opportunities! I do believe in horoscopes!

Anyway, the pub is probably like millions of other English pubs. What makes it very special for me are the people working there, looooooovely people. I get along extremely well with every single one of them and I have a blast every time I go there. We have had some crazy nights out as well. I was there full-time until they offered me more hours at the office so now I only work at the pub on Fridays, would love to work there more but what can I say, at the office it is much better money and the job is much easier. 

At the pub I work as a waitress and as a bar maid. I have never worked in a pub before so learning everything about beers and ales and wines was quite a job but now I handle it all quite well. :) Yesterday I was working again and it was mental, I don't think even Queen's jubilee was quite that bad. So many people crowding at the pub and only drinking, not eating. That means that people working on the floor had an easy day but us behind the bar had quite a time!

Our team consists of people from Australia, England, Poland, Spain, France, Italy (my favorites, have so crazy much fun with the Italian dudes!), Portugal, Switzerland and not sure if there are other countries. Oh yes of course Finland as well with me working there...! So we are quite an international and I like it. 

That's a quick summary of my job.. Can't boast about it enough, I just like it! Sometimes I feel I could just quit at the office and start full-time at the pub again but I guess I have to think about my future and especially my studies and that the office job helps a lot with them as well. 

Here are a few pictures from the pub :)

I made it through the first year of uni!

I am such a lucky bastard. After the second semester started at the beginning of February I actually went to uni regularly and at least tried to work hard. However, certain things started distract me already about a month after the start of semester and I got lazier and lazier. Want to hear how I completed my coursework?

(And just to mention the first and the last time I actually used the uni's library was in mid-spring. Ooops.)

Here is a list of coursework I had to do:

- 1500 word economic essay about my chosen company (I chose SAS - Scandinavian Airlines)
- 1500word essay about facilities management and outsourcing services in theory
- 2500 word essay about the same thing in practice
- 2500 word portfolio discussing articles about businesses and ecological sustainability

Trust me I am not proud when I tell you that three of these four pieces of coursework I started writing either the night before the deadline, and one essay I even started writing in the morning of the deadline day.

And they let me through! And what's more, the grades were actually pretty good! And I DO have my reasons for the poor time-management: the last week of April I started working 7 days a week and some days more than 10 hours. So I did not have any time for anything. And basically all the coursework was due in May. Busy times!

Anyway, they do say that the first year of uni is quite easy and it really was, and I promise to work much much much harder on my second year. I do!

Besides I have always been pretty good at doing school work at the last minute and just coming up with stuff without reading any literature. For example, from secondary school I graduated with a grade average of 9,5 (10 is the best grade you can get) with not much effort put on studying. Lucky me!

Anyway, as you know I'm back in London again, enjoying the weekend after working at the office and the pub. I have promised myself to spend this day only doing things I want to so right now I'm downloading a movie and eating strawberries and chocolate after a two-hour walk in Epping forest.

I probably have free time to write posts about my holiday in Finland and about my job at the pub later today. I might pop into O'Neills pub at Bank later this evening tho as my lovely flatmate is working her arse off there and I might just make her day better by going to have a beer there haha! Anyways tomorrow's hopefully going to be a pub day as well with the Euro final Spain-Italy, or as my wonderful manager at the pub said, Spanish cunts against Italian real men, tsk tsk. I support Spain so we had a bit of an argument there. Anyway, tomorrow is hopefully going to include beer and football - goodness, sometimes I think whether I was supposed to be born a man!

Oh and sorry about the lack of pictures! Will fix it soon!

Latersss!

I'm home

we <3 it

Won't be sacrificing any time for the blog for a little while. 

Please please please do I really have to stay at the office today!

Yet here I am. Don't get me wrong, I like my job in the City, just not today. The girl I usually work next to and with who I usually chat through the day is on a holiday and I'm alone in a room of male consultants talking about loss adjusting and insurances. Excuse me?

See, I have been working here since January as a team assistant. Funnily enough, they found my ad saying I was looking for a job at a PUB and emailed me whether I was interested in a job at the office. Back then I was in desperate need of money, so after two interviews I luckily got the job. 

Six months of working here does not mean I understand a shit of what they actually do! I mean yes they have explained some stuff and as I might be becoming a full-time worker here soon they have been talking about delegating Nordic marketing/case handling to me. Not sure what it would involve but sounds pretty good. And as far as I know our Nordic director has been handing out my CV's in Finland to important people such as managing directors of Pohjola or If, with plans involving me more with our contacts in Finland. To me that sounds pretty promising when thinking about my future career.

But calm down it's not that cool, today I have just been making some business travel itineraries and browsing on Facebook. Whoops I dind't just say that!

See I used to sit in the comfy room of our support staff section. Then they transferred me. Now I sit in the main consultant's room facing the Nordic director as I'm supposed to work with him. I don't mind since I got the best place in the whole office! Basically - I am facing the whole room and my back is to the wall. Think about the possibilities. Wherever I get bored I go on Facebook or read horoscopes. It's sneaky but no one can see ANYTHING I am doing so it's pretty awesome!

And oh, today. I am going to visit home tomorrow so my motivation for work is ZERO at the moment. Holiday, holiday, holiday, holiday!

Does not really help that all the phone calls I have answered today are from people who don't actually know what they are calling about and who they want to talk to. Well please people anyone but me! Don't talk to me I am just an assistant. I transfer the calls - not advise you on a claim, ok?

And I'm having the worst tooth ache for ages. I'm pretty sure it's my wisdom tooth I've been so hard trying to ignore. But no more about that I keep ignoring it as well as I can, I hate dentists. 

I will tell you more about my other job at the pub later because it is pretty awesome. Pouring beer and making extremely good jokes with weird people. Later!

My today's outfit. I won't normally post about outfits but I rather like this one. :)

Anyways I go back to work now and in less than 24 hours I will be in my home country. COULD I be more excited! (Well I have to wake up at 4am so there is one thing I am not excited about).

See you once I'm in Finland!!

Today I was supposed to go to Westfield and do some serious gift shopping. I'm going to visit my home in Finland on Wednesday so I had a few things to buy for my family and my best friend. Basically, I have been supposed to buy a shirt for my mum since November so I guess it is about time to do it since I was officially the world's most terrible daughter missing both Mother's Day and my mum's birthday a week after that. Also, I was supposed to buy a late birthday present for my best friend (her birthday was in March, ehem), something for my dad and also a gift for my lovely goddaughter. And the result after 5 hours shopping:

- A shirt for my mum - to be bought

- Something for my dad - to be bought

- A present for my best friend - to be bought

- A gift for my goddaughter - check

- Loads of stuff for myself - check

Oh goodness. Everytime. Everytime! The first issue for me is that I am super critical about buying something for other people. The reason I managed to buy the gift for my goddaughter is that she is a kid and does not really mind, and besides her criteria were really strict: a princess costume and a princess doll. That one I managed. 

I have tomorrow evening time to find the rest of the gifts. I am working at the office tomorrow from half 8 to half 5 so I only have a few hours to find them, but I know a good place at Piccadilly Circus that has saved me before so I'll pop in there tomorrow. 

Anyways now I'm waiting for Mal to come from work. We'll go and buy something for dinner and just chill at home. 

Wish me luck finding some proper nice gifts tomorrow, otherwise I am SO screwed! 

Something I bought today

I went shopping wearing this shirt. Not the best start for the day: the first person I encountered on the street was an old man who told me I was dressed up in atomic war symbol. He says that is what the symbol represents. I told him that is not what I represent. KA-CHING!

Hola!

I might be just a tiniest bit embarrassed. Anyone who happened to read my blog last August might just have noticed that I managed to write two posts after moving to London. Face-palm. I have always been horrible with diaries or anything that involves regular commitment, even hobbies cause me trouble sometimes. But this time I have more motivation and what's more, I have someone who will kick my ass if I get lazy - my lovely flatmate Malin is a fellow blogger and she has successfully been writing for several months now and she will push me to write should I get lazy.

Anyway I think I could tell something about myself. Writing about myself would probably be an awfully boring biography so I'm just going to make a list of the facts about me:

- I am from a tiny village somewhere in Eastern Finland, you will find out more about it soon enough as I am going to go there this week
- I moved to London last August to study
- I study International Tourism & Travel Management
- Just completed first year and hopefully passed as well
- Work part-time (soon maybe full-time) at a consultancy company in the City
- Work part-time (used to be full-time) at a pub called Silver Cross at Trafalgar Square
- Have moved twice during my time in London, as a summary the first flat was too expensive and the location sucked, the second one was alright but the contract ended and we did not want to renew it
- Right now I live in East London in a studio flat that I share with one of my best friends, Malin

Those were the boring facts. I promise I won't bother you with too much information anymore (like boring information I mean, again, those who read my blog in August might remember....)!

Anyway as a summary I moved to London because I love the city, and I fall in love with it again every day. My original plans were to go and spend the whole summer holiday of four months in Finland, but this city has be in its grip and here I am, living the life I love.

So this is my first blog post after which I am certainly trying very hard to write posts regularly!

Thank you and good night! :)