So I’m now at the end of my first working week. It has been a very mixed bag of tasks, from the very interesting and new, to the quite boring waiting around at the end of the day to finish work when I’ve done all my tasks for the day. Overall, I have learnt a lot this week about practical marketing, market research and tools used by media agencies. Hopefully I will get my email account on Monday so that I can start my online training and learn all the necessities for the job.
The working environment is really weird here which is taking some time to get used to. We all work in a medium sized open plan office, but it isn’t very sociable. Everyone listens to their own music, but it’s quite comical listening to everyone signing in English to songs from the past 40 years. Both my managers love talking to themselves. I often think they’re talking to me and that I haven’t understood them before realising they weren’t. The Spanish here is really quite different especially at lunchtime when everyone speaks in more informal Spanish and I am struggling to keep up with it all a little bit. At the same time I have learnt some words and the people I eat with try to talk slow and explain things I do not understand, so hopefully in a couple of weeks I’ll be able to cope with the speed and accent. I think it may take a bit longer to learn all the new words they have for everything here compared to in Spain, but it should be useful for the future as I’ll be able to understand Spanish from most parts of the world. They do say Chilean Spanish is really hard to learn and even some Spanish people I know have problem with it!
I am looking forward to the weekend as it’s been a very tiring week waking up at 7:30am and not getting home till at least 7:15pm followed by shopping and cooking before bed. It is going to be a good lay-in tomorrow but I’m really looking forward to pizza tonight! Let’s see what next week brings…
It's funny what you say about the open space area being quite big but quiet... It's the same out here in France. No one really talks that much to anyone else and I've started listening to the radio whilst working. It's a shame because it means I don't get to practise my French that much... Also, the singing thing, a few people do that here as well... Maybe Chile isn't as far away culturally as Paris... Who knows! Enjoy your weekend :) xxx
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