Basically a shift at Lobby Lounge consists of very fattening elements. As I walk into the back pantry that is more like a giant closet, I am greeted enthusiastically by my friends (most of whom are girls) and then I hide there the rest of the shift. I make coffee drinks, tea, set up trays to be taken out, sometimes deliver them and even sometimes help out in the lounge itself. Mostly though...I stand in the back singing with the pantry people, eating cookies, and teaching English phrases here and there. I'm pretty proud of the fact that I can now steam milk like a champ, and make a somewhat nice looking cappuccino. My weaknesses are the bowls of peanuts, the box of cookies and my colleagues who continuously make me new drinks that almost always contain whole milk. Lets just say I'm getting my calcium intake...but don't be surprised if I come back as an actual cow.
The drinks we make are pretty awesome, lots of sugar, lots of milk, but the coffee itself is quite awful. Their method for making coffee is the same for a espresso. This means all the coffee is super concentrated, and they just add water. I know that's how its made otherwise, but I miss drip machines or percolators. It just tastes better. I can't wait to go to a restaurant and get served a pot of coffee. Hopefully one that's been sitting there a while so its nice and old tasting...that would probably taste better than the stuff here.
So besides drinking my way to "barndome" I'm actually learning a lot of helpful drink combinations, and I'm not so frightened of the espresso maker machines.
I've had the pleasure to meet new people from all over the world, and to get to know them in a rather short amount of time. Usually we have a nice conversation at the venue where I work, then my roommates meet them and we all go out for dinner or something. Rarely however, do I meet anyone who really expects much from me- as in my plans for the future, what I want to do with my life etc. I'm not sure what there is to my future, or even what I'll end up doing yet. One guest and I sat in our hotel bar for a couple hours and we really delved into what I can look forward to as I enter the employed world. He asked me if I had all my financial troubles taken care of, and there was nothing for me to worry about in that respect...what would I do?
You know what I said?
I don't know.
No, that's what I said, I do know what I said- it was that.
Honestly though....nothing jumped out at me. I mean, as for working or getting a gig that paid, I couldn't say with absolute conviction that I would do this or that.
It kinda freaked me out. I have a year left and I gotta figure this out. So far I've been going through my head all the jobs I've heard of, the qualifications necessary and any capacities I might have. I'm left with an odd assorted list of rather unhelpful things.
I would make a mean professional doodler though.
How can I travel all over the world, while simultaneously mostly just enjoying the cultures and cuisines, and not really spend too much time in an office or...work building of sorts? I'm thinking tv personality. But that requires other things I'm not interested in, like being on camera front and center. Or how can I spend the most amount of time with my family, buut still make the money needed for a nice vacation and so on? There's no happy balance I'm afraid, and if you knew me- you'd know I know this, and I'm aware that people struggle with this daily. I never said my blog would have brand new revelations...they're just in my own words. So this future thing is looming quite large, and I have to find something fast!
Buuut that's something there's time for me to think about...like a fifteen hour plane ride amount of time.
Living in China. That's where I'm at right now in my life. I'm living in China, and I'm figuring it out.
Also, I've found a lot of strange parallels in the tv shows that I'm watching lately, it seems like my film choice directly correlates to the situation I'm in. Either that or Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Trek's directors spent some time here too.
That's probably it.
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