Working-class gypsy: moving up in the world

    Not much to update everyone with...I have made it through 5 days of work so far. This job is easy and hard at the same time. The first couple of days were easy for promoting because I already had hostel friends that I'd been going out drinking with before I got the job, so they all came out to support me. (which made me look good to my boss, bringing in huge groups of heavy drinkers) but it was a little more challenging getting to know the Greek way of serving and fumbling around with change (yeah, give the foreigner a money bag and expect her to make change really fast when really, she thinks it's MONOPOLY MONEY). But then last night was really slow in terms out amount of people in, which made me feel like I hadn't done a good enough job promoting during the day. It was really hard trying to promote during the day knowing that I had to be back in to work at 9pm, and that Im getting paid the same every day, no matter how many extra hours of promoting I put in. 

In better news (or worse?) my coffee addiction is back! :) 

Since last night was slow, around 1am I got a glass of wine and sat down to chat with a couple (prob about my parents age) that had just come in. They were in town for a wedding, and they were the sweetest people ever! They asked me all kinds of questions about traveling alone and the whole hostel thing. I learned about their18 year old son who's going away to college and the mom is all freaked out about him being 45 min away. I found out that they have been like everywhere, literally. They go to Dubai all the time (cause it's their favorite) and have a house in Spain as well as Manchester. (they're from england) As they left they gave me a 100 euro tip to go towards my travels :) 

I'm starting to look into flights to Amsterdam, maybe meeting up with the family there before heading to Munich. I'm afraid to make travel plans to far in advance in case they decide they don't need another waitress anymore and cut me loose. If they do that then I'll be going up to the mainland right away, rather than waiting until Oktoberfest time. 

But even with my new job, life is pretty good here on the island :)