Working 9 to 5...

Today I finished Day 2 working in the office of a huge language school. Apparently, I am a 'Sales and Marketing Intern', but it's amazing how many glamourous names there are for forwarding emails and deleting spam... Being in front of a computer all day is not ideal, and for those of you who are Durham language students too, you will be familiar with our dear friend Roger's warning about not getting a job where you are on a computer all the time...oops! However, my colleagues are lovely, we speak Spanish in the office but everyone speaks English, as well as many other languages! The sales team has to be international since obviously there are people calling from all over the world, so it's really interesting to hear Italian coming from the desk next to me, and German or French opposite. There are other interns too, but they are on the E-team, which involves writing articles and blogs in their native language to form part of the publicity for the language school.  To my surprise, when I arrived on my first day I saw Seun, another student from Durham, was a new intern too! The other interns are from all over the world, but I have my daily language lessons with Caterina, who is italian, and Sebastian and Michelle who are from Germany, but we all speak Spanish together.  We get on really well and we are all a similar age, so we have started going out together in the evenings.  Even though I didn't come home too  late last night (it was about half 12), somehow I managed to ignore my alarm clock.  Brilliant.  Fortunately I woke up with ten minutes to spare until I had to leave, so I grabbed an apple and ran. Well, walked briskly, I wasn't that late, and I am in Spain after all.  "What a horrible perpetuation of stereotypes!" I hear you cry. Normally I would apologise, except the first person in my section of the office was me....