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We are following....Please keep sharing the pictures

Enjoying your mini blog. Just spice it up with more pictures. You dont seem to tell us much about your Academic pursuits and social life there. in germany. Wishing you all the best.

Braket:
About my holiday job.

I was able to get a holiday job through a job agent to work at UPS logistics facility.

The working environment is just the same as described by Franknetter in his dairy.

I had to work for 8 good hours standing Monday to Friday. The section I was attached with is called the 'Outbound'. What we do basically is packaging of orders on the conveyor into cartons that fit them.
Trust me, it was hectic working in this section because my supervisor was a workaholic and he keeps saying "Schneller Schneller (faster faster), Zeit kostet geld (Time is money) ". Ah yes, do you remember my Deutsch is 'Sehr schlecht( very bad)?' Despite the fact that UPS is an American company, majority of the staff speak Deutsch and don't understand English.

I happened to be attached with a supervisor that does not understand English, so I had to improve my language skills. Many thanks to the few hours I sacrificed on DW.com, I was able to understand majority of what he was saying and right now, I can tell you that my vocabulary has improved a little, but my listening skills improved the most.
Luckily for me, there was a native English speaker in my section and he helped me with translations and even information I wasn't aware of because of the language.

Shey I said 80% of them don't understand English, and UPS being an American company, the computers were all programmed in English, that eased another part of the work for me because we had to print some stuffs from the data base. I later realized majority of them don't know what they are doing on the computer because they had just crammed what to do and don't know when there's an error in the system.

In short, I did this boring blood sucking job for couple of weeks. It was the same routine every Monday to Friday. Waking up at 5am to prepare breakfast and lunch, sometimes dinner ( there's no place to buy food around the facility, I miss Nigerian work environment for this. At least one canteen will have opened shop just because of us, or one old woman would have opened a bread and akara or beans center). Catching the bus by 7am and meeting the same set of people on the bus, heading to the store at the train station to buy Coca-Cola or yogurt, still getting to meet the same set of people in the store as well, getting to work, finishing work and getting home at 9pm.

It was so boring and it was as if I was leaving in a loop(those kind of things about studying a person routine and carrying out a robbery action or assassination is real because I lived it first hand. In fact at certain period of time, I know where we would meet red light and where we often meet green light).

Apart from being a boring job, by the time I get home, all joints would have gone separate ways. I also started having a rocky relationship with my supervisor due to many reasons.

I later resigned before the expiration of my contract because I needed to face my priority here and also get enough rest for the semester ahead.

To be honest, these are the main factors im considering but then again I dont think its Gods plan for me to stay with a smoker. It hurts to think Ill still be trying to find someone . Starting all over from ground zero again....Thanks for the advice, I appreciate.

thorpido:
Don't allow your age make you compromise.Smokers do not easily quit so if you decide to go ahead, then you must be ready to live with a smoker.
I know that fact that he's from your hometown and age not on your side is making you reason the matter.

Hello Fam,
Just though I could share this and seek for your input.
I was introduced to someone by a family friend recently and he happens to
be from my hometown. I actually do not like hook ups but I decided to give it a try.
He lives and works in the East due to the nnature of the job while I
live in Abuja. So apparently most of our communication has been virtual, though hes visited twice.
He seems okay though not my spec physically as such. He seems unbothered about his
physical appearance albeit he's been really commited to this and even trying to get a job here in Abj
because I cant relocate to the East as im already working.
Now heres the dilenma, the last trip he made to Ab, I discovered he smokes a lot as I could see
teh effeccts of Nicotine on his skin, eyes, nails, complexion and even his lips. The burn son his lips
freaked me out. Who smokes so much to the point that their lips are burnt.However, I hear hes a
very good catholic and is alround a good person. He promised heaven and earth that hes working on quitting, that he indulged again
because his ex left him and he was heart broken. To be honest, im not buyng it but im 31 while hes 35.

Secondly, what I feel for him is not so strong due to the distance and how the relationship started but then again, I hope im not making
a mistake as I told him this smoking is a deal breaker for me and I would not like to proceed with things.Hes been giving commitments to quitting.
What do you guys think? My concern is when he has anothr relapse which would most likely happen, maybe when he meets another
life or heart wrenching event. Asides that he seems to have a good head on his shoulder.