Today, I woke up to realise that I definitely have a guardian angel. To begin with, I woke up just in time to get my bags ready and have breakfast, which I was craving for not having eaten anything since 3 p.m. on Sunday, and which, I had been told, started at 8. The only thing I saw at the groundfloor, however, was a group of my colleagues, already in coats and ready to leave. They told me they thought I was in Melsungen (the town where we were going for the workshop) and that the taxi had been ordered for 7.30 and by mere luck I hadn't been left alone in the hotel! Bugger me, I thought, and rushed back to my room to get the bag and jump into the taxi, thinking about the breakfast which never happened and shuddering at the thought that I had very nearly skipped work...
Working was rather difficult today, firstly because I didn't sleep too much, and secondly, because it was FI and they were talking too fast for me to understand what the hell they meant by all those accounting slang terms.
I didn't risk asking for the internet after my morning fiasco and entertained myself with looking through the windows at the hills and forest that surround the plant. There were clouds of fog in the distance which made it look like Forbidden Forest from Harry Potter or something worse from die Brueder Grimm...
I did make up for the morning later in the day, when I told my colleagues that the internet was free in the hotel and passwords could be obtained at the reception. I must also look like a sophisticated linguist in their eyes now that I managed to ask the driver a couple of questions in German...
Then we drove back to Kassel where the Weihnachtsmarkt started today and they played Nutcracker near one of the shops! We had some Bratwurst (which is not sold in portions smaller than half a meter) and then some Gluhwein (I kept the mug). I also found the most wonderful thing on earth, and that is NOUGAT!!! More lovely things tomorrow!
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