Wednesday, January 13, 2010
9:08 AM | 
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Sebastian M
Lesson 349
After going through orientation for two days and having my first day of classes I've come to the realization that nothing is organized well here in Madrid. I was warned before I came but I had no idea that it was going to be this bad. People here have no sense of "being wery effective und efficient!" as my management teacher from Germany would say. By the way, the Germans are perfect for teaching management because after being raised by a German mother for nineteen years, I know exactly how effective and efficient they can be. The madrileños have no sense of either though... Mainly effectiveness, which I found out after I sat in a bus for almost an hour waiting for everyone to be loaded on, we're not that big of a group. No one is ever on time, I had three classes today and only one professor was there on the dot, take a wild guess which one that was. Also note, this would have been lesson three had this lesson not taken a seista and then decided to stop for coffee and a snack with the other lessons on the way. It would however be very rude of me to not mention the upsides of such a lifestyle. First off, there is never any rush, instead things will work themselves out. My roomies and I invited some friends out to dinner around 8 and I was freaking out because we didn't get there until 9! Turns out that they were even later than us and we had a great night. The seista isn't bad either since it is similar to German Kaffee und Kuchen, except for the fact that everything shut downs from about 2 to 5, no joke. Welcome to Spain, now excuse me it's time for my siesta.
After going through orientation for two days and having my first day of classes I've come to the realization that nothing is organized well here in Madrid. I was warned before I came but I had no idea that it was going to be this bad. People here have no sense of "being wery effective und efficient!" as my management teacher from Germany would say. By the way, the Germans are perfect for teaching management because after being raised by a German mother for nineteen years, I know exactly how effective and efficient they can be. The madrileños have no sense of either though... Mainly effectiveness, which I found out after I sat in a bus for almost an hour waiting for everyone to be loaded on, we're not that big of a group. No one is ever on time, I had three classes today and only one professor was there on the dot, take a wild guess which one that was. Also note, this would have been lesson three had this lesson not taken a seista and then decided to stop for coffee and a snack with the other lessons on the way. It would however be very rude of me to not mention the upsides of such a lifestyle. First off, there is never any rush, instead things will work themselves out. My roomies and I invited some friends out to dinner around 8 and I was freaking out because we didn't get there until 9! Turns out that they were even later than us and we had a great night. The seista isn't bad either since it is similar to German Kaffee und Kuchen, except for the fact that everything shut downs from about 2 to 5, no joke. Welcome to Spain, now excuse me it's time for my siesta.
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P.S Since everything runs just a bit slow around here, everyone has extreme patience. Never once have I been yelled while I struggled at the front of the line asking why in god's name did I get a free loaf of bread with my groceries. So, thank you for your patience madrileños. :-)
Hey, madrileno.
Seems that you have acclimated pretty fast. Enjoy but just remember what your first, second and third mission is there!!!
You know who this is!
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