Half a step further

This morning, after I got up, I found a mail in my inbox. Yesterday I was applying among others to Jakarta. The HR Director answered and gave me a "maybe" as a response on my application. I applied on an internship in the marketing & sales department. However, due to the confidentiality of these departments it's not possible for me to get in there. However, she asked me if I would be interested in other internship placements. Now I am waiting for a response to my second mail. It's not exactly what I wanted, but it is a good feeling, that they consider taking me. Especially, because my contact from Tenerife told me, that it is much harder to get an internship in Asia, due to the regulations and restrictions.

Anyways, I will now fix myself and go to Pasila. We have another group meeting and have to get some work done. I will take my Halare with me, since we wanted to go this afternoon to Suomenlinna to a students event. It's called the coverall baptism. There are going to be games and competitions and in the end all contestants will jump into the sea to baptize their Halare. Regarding the temperatures I wont do that, since my coverall is anyways already baptized with a lot of beer and other alcoholic beverages from the last student events!

I guess it will be fun anyways and I hope the weather will stay that nice. I will go out there soon and enjoy the sun. I have ten minutes to go, so read you later!

~M~

Business as usual

I just sent four more applications, to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta (2x). Yesterday I asked my former Trainee Director from Tenerife for help and she was so kind to give me the contact details of the responsible HR persons. I didn't count (yet) how many applications I sent already, but it is really frustrating. Especially not getting back anything brings one down. It feels so bad that you are not even worth a simple one-sentence-mail like "thank you for your application, but we are not interested". For me that would be enough, a "No" is better than no reaction at all, since it brings clarity.

Anyways, I was in uni today. We had a guest lecturer from Spain. I reckon she thinks we are all stupid, since we didn't understand what she was talking about, since she was using different terminologies. But this is what happens, if Spanish temper meets Finnish (and tired-exchange-students') reservation. It was funny tho... somehow.

Then we had an HR workshop for our assignment. Normally I dont like workshops like these, but this time it actually helped a lot, since we did basically half our assignment already together in the lesson. Since it was not mandatory and half of the people were not there it was a relaxing and productive atmosphere. After the workshop my partner, G., and I stayed a little longer in uni to work on the assignment.

I came home by four and prepared lunch. I made rice and soy stuff in a chili-orange-sauce. It was really good and so much that I slipped into a food-coma after eating.

Now I'm going to watch an episode of some series and then start sewing my Halare. Maybe I will read for uni or do something else... There is always something to do!

~M~