Life just goes on for us now....
Jen has hit reality again.... her days of leisure and relaxation are over. I have been working for Charles Orbach for 2 weeks now and can report that I am slowly settling back into the professional working lifestyle. The first week of work was spent in the office getting to speed with Charles Orbach's never ending processes & procedures, whilst this week was spent working at a client near the airport with 1 Russian, 1 Zimbabwean decendent and 2 Afrikaans. Working with South Africans to date has been an interesting and memorable experience. There are definately notable differences in personalities to those of Australians...
Whilst all Afrikaans communicate in English, once they know that another person can speak Afrikaans, the conversation fluidly changes from English to Afrikaans before you realise it. Half the time I don't understand what they are saying due to their conversing in Afrikaans, and the other half of the time I can't understand their English accent anyway!! All fun though and I may even eventually learn some Afrikaans.
It's the end of week 2 and I'm really looking forward to the back to back long weekends we have over the next week. Got to love whoever plans the long weekends... there is only 2 days of work next week (never mind any implications this may have on the fluctuating RSA economy). This long weekend we are camping in the Northern Drakensberg Ranges whilst next weekend we are road tripping to St Lucia for a few days of relaxation by the coast. My body is struggling with the daily 5.30am rise so these holidays will be cherished!
Jen has hit reality again.... her days of leisure and relaxation are over. I have been working for Charles Orbach for 2 weeks now and can report that I am slowly settling back into the professional working lifestyle. The first week of work was spent in the office getting to speed with Charles Orbach's never ending processes & procedures, whilst this week was spent working at a client near the airport with 1 Russian, 1 Zimbabwean decendent and 2 Afrikaans. Working with South Africans to date has been an interesting and memorable experience. There are definately notable differences in personalities to those of Australians...
Whilst all Afrikaans communicate in English, once they know that another person can speak Afrikaans, the conversation fluidly changes from English to Afrikaans before you realise it. Half the time I don't understand what they are saying due to their conversing in Afrikaans, and the other half of the time I can't understand their English accent anyway!! All fun though and I may even eventually learn some Afrikaans.
It's the end of week 2 and I'm really looking forward to the back to back long weekends we have over the next week. Got to love whoever plans the long weekends... there is only 2 days of work next week (never mind any implications this may have on the fluctuating RSA economy). This long weekend we are camping in the Northern Drakensberg Ranges whilst next weekend we are road tripping to St Lucia for a few days of relaxation by the coast. My body is struggling with the daily 5.30am rise so these holidays will be cherished!