I need to tell you something..

Hey everybody,

This summer I did my last internship in a little Italian hotel with Antonia. During the almost 3 months we spend on the little island many things happened and nearly everything I told to my friends but the one story I kept to myself. Even now I don’t know why I did it but I need to tell it to somebody. I killed Tobias, my new friend!

Tobias and I were like twins (he was the ugly one), we got on blind, knew everything about the other and never had a quarrel. Everything was perfect…until Tobias got sick. His nose was filled with Toilet paper so he was not able to breath.

For a long time, I watched him suffer, but then I decided to help him even if it was the hardest decision I ever had to make. I took my little axe and chopped off his big, ugly horse face.

Tobias’ last moments and his tragic dead are captured on a video which Antonia made.

I am very glad for the short time we had. I will never forget you (maybe).  

Rest in Peace, Tobias!

If anybody is out there who can help me to get away with my sorrow, I would be happy about every helpful comment.

Thanks for reading my blog!

 C U

Annika (and Antonia)

Fire with happy ending

Fire with happy ending

Hi everyone!

In my internship I worked at the front desk of the hotel Ibis in Bregenz as a receptionist. In my first workweek I couldn’t do much stuff on my own because the programs which are in use weren’t that simple for beginners like me.

My story I want to tell you happened at Friday in my first week. I helped Elisabeth at the front desk to check-in guests. Juliana was working in the back office and all the other colleagues were on an advanced training. One of the guests wanted to take his suitcases out of the suitcase-room. I went to open the door of the room and the only thing I could see was a lot of dark grey smoke. I closed the door as quick as I could do. I told Elisabeth about the smoke in the room. She was shocked and called the fire brigade immediately. The fire brigade ordered us to evacuate the whole hotel to guarantee the security of all our guests. Some minutes later the police arrived with 5 cars and the fire brigade with 3 big fire engines. I had to stay in front of the hotel and had to calm down our guests. In the end it wasn’t as dramatic as we thought in the first moments. It was only something defect in the underfloor heating, nobody got injured and after a few hours the smell of the smoke was also evaporated.

I hope you all had a great internship as well.

Laura

Things you didn't know about my internship on Tenerife!

Almost parched on a vulkan in Africa! 

Today i wanna tell you a story you probably didn't know about my time on Tenerife yet. But I can tell you that this for sure has been one of the toughtest and most adventurous experiences I throughlived up to this point in my life. I'll probably remember this day forever but if you'd ask me to experience it once again my answer would most likely be a definie 'no'.

Let's start from the very beginning. My two best friends from Austria came to visit me for a week on Tenerife and that day we stayed at the beach, afterwards the two of them went back to their air bnb to have some dinner and pre sleep a bit. I myslef had to go to work at the bar/café at 5 o' clock pm and I've been fulfilling my tasks as a servant there until 11 o' clock pm when one of my friends came for picking me up.

We went to their air bnb where we woke up our other friend, had a smoothie and packed our stuff together. At 1 o' clock am the three of us put ourselves into warm clothes, tight shoes and left for the hightest mountain of Spain, the 3718 metres high vulcan 'El Teide'. Even the drive was quite a struggle cause the traffic regulations especially in the city were kind of confusing and complex.
But the ride in general was beautiful, one hour through the forest and later on the desert of the national park at night and we could see the almost full moon.

At 2:20 am we fairly motivated started walking. The temperature was okay and it was amazing hiking through this moon-like landscape while the moon and stars were shining bright. Around three hours later we arrived at the 'refugio' where we ate and drunk something. At this time we've already been rather tired, after some minutes of relaxing we continued and went for the peak.

7:18 am. We were honoured to experience a stunning sunset or 'amanecer', how it's called in spanish, after an exhausting last half an hour of climbing rocken stairs at exteme wind at roughly 2 degrees celsius. Newly energized we started our 1300 altitude difference climb down at quater to 8 am. Our legs were tired and the cool breeze of the night has been replaced by the merciless heath of the sun. It got worse and worse every minute passing and idiot me somehow forgot the second water bottle at home and so not a lot of time passed until we ran out of water. and food.

The heath was unbearable, we stayed up the entire night and have been walking for 8 hours now. Our state was changing between almost falling asleep, with our scarves slung around our faces, no talking and starting to go crazy of the sun and lack of sleep, thinking about newspaper headlines of our end up here and playing desert golf with a stick and one of the light vulcan stones.

Almost parching and starving we finally reached the parking space at 11 o' clock am and the path was a lot longer than we remembered. With our last bits of energy we reached the car were there was no water either but pears never tasted as good as the ones we ate then. For only one of us had a driving licence she had to drive down for one more hour hoping for her not to fall asleep and steering us down the edge of the road.

We had a quick stop at the gas station and were heading back to Puerto de la Cruz again where we had to give back the rented car. It was a true mess and the roads tricky as ever, her tiredness didn't make it better and there was no way we found the spot where we had to park the car. I was constantly feeding my friend with dark chocolate to keep her at a well mood but even that couldn't prevent her from stopping at the next best place at one Point and eventually having a nervous breakdown.

Calling the man of the 'rent a car' with our last reserves of phone battery we could manage to park it somewhere else and telling him where we are. With lots of chocolate and positive energy my friend and I managed to calm the other one down and walk home smiling again.

At 2 o' clock pm we finally opened the door of our air bnb and straight fell on the bed and asleep which we kept doing for the next few hours. The three of us had our long desired shower plus dinner and then we were laying down again for the rest of the evening and night, now excitedly talking and laughing about the adventurous last day.

I apologize for the novel-like text I worte but I couldn't tell this experience properly in 250 words, I hope you enjoyed reading this little adventure of mine and maybe you'll play with the thought of going on a trip to the Teide too if you'll happen to be on Tenriffe one day.

have a nice day or night!

xoxo

Christina :)

Internship stories - Caorle

Hey everyone,

we want to tell you something very funny about the summer of our life. We spent ten weeks in Caorle, a beautiful village near Venice.

One day something very crazy happened to us: It was a normal Thursday afternoon, the weather was quite good, just a little bit cloudy. Hungry as always – we decided to get some ice cream in the centre (a fifteen-minute walk from our hotel). We asked some of our workmates to join us but the only answer we got from everybody was: “Are you fucking crazy? A thunderstorm is threatening and you want to go outside? You can’t be serious?!” We just started to laugh and replied: “What you call a thunderstorm here in Italy is probably only a drizzle for us in Austria..”
And so we put on our summer dresses and went outside with one small umbrella – safety first 😉.
While we were eating our deliciooouus ice cream the sky was visibly growing darker. Therefore, we decided to head slowly back to our hotel. Five minutes later it started to rain and so we opened our umbrella. Suddenly we couldn’t trust our eyes as we saw how fast the sky changed from a grey to a black as dark as you have never seen it before. We felt like being part of a horror-movie as the wind got stronger and stronger. Everything flew through the air: signs, bicycles, sun beds, beach umbrellas and OUR umbrella… Seconds later we were completely drenched and the only thing we wanted to do was running to our room – as fast as we could. Few minutes later we arrived at the hotel and there we thought we are safe – but Selina wasn’t. A sudden gust of wind – so strong as we have never experienced before in Austria – caught her and so she fell down the stairs. Luckily, she hadn’t been hurt and as we get back in our hotel everyone started laughing at us. We stood completely wet and dirty in front of them and the only thing they said was: “Keep calm – it was just a drizzle”.

All in all we had lots of fun during the summer and we will go back definitely.

Thanks for reading our blog entry!

See you,

Selina und Elisa

Trainee stories

Hi everyone!
I'm going to tell you a bit from my internship at the "Gütle" in Dornbirn-enjoy!

I have never known how stupid people can be. „Excuse me madam, there's no toilet in your restaurant?” “Oh no I’m sorry Sir, we all go into the wood to the big old tree on the left side”. I had conversations like these every single day. People don’t open their eyes. We have had a big toilet sign “to the toilets”. If you have to explain the same every two second, believe me you go crazy.

Once, I had a table with four businessmen. They ordered a Spanish red wine. So I presented the wine to the self-professed wine connoisseur. I did my presentation but that man just interrupted me, grabbed the wine bottle out of my hands and said “let an expert explain the wine to the others!” You can imagine how angry I was. From that time I hated him so much. He gave me the bottle back to open it for them. As I pulled out the cork from the wine bottle, I smelt that the wine wasn’t good any more. But I was sure, he would not recognize the defective taste. So I gave him a bit of the wine to try it. “Oh this wine is perfect, please pour my colleague some wine!” Can you imagine how hard I laughed internally.😂😂😂

My internship

Things you don’t know about “Lechtal Tourismus”!

Hi everybody!

Today I tell you something about my great internship in the last summer 2017. 

I hope you also had a fantastic work placement!

First some hard facts. I spent my internship at home in a tourist office in the Lechtal. 8 weeks I was there for 40 hours in the week. In this time, I was assigned in the office in Holzgau. I had an own workplace with an own PC. My tasks during my internship were to answer mails, to help the guest further, to help my colleges with the service of the homepage and to inform landlords via mail. Also, I did some creating of folders and flyers. I could help at some projects and to see how such these things runs off. The best of this job was the variety of the work and the cake if somebody had birthday. 😉 I liked all my colleges, everybody of them was very friendly and had taken up me very well. Also, the landlords accepted me prompt. The managing director of “Lechtal Tourismus” is mister Kohler. He was really nice to me and I got a present of him at the end of my work placement. As well he took me to some of interesting meetings. He is really interested in the feelings of his employees and I think this is so important for a manager. 

So, I had a really great summer and I would like to work again there!

Thanks for reading my blog!

Yours,

Verena

My internship in Capraia

Hey Folks,

I spent my summer on a little Mediterranean island to do my last internship. I was very glad that had the opportunity to go and get some experience abroad. As I worked in a typical Italian Restaurant, I got to know many different fishes and seafood. At work, we had lot of fun, especially me, because I had the honour to ring the kitchen bell and scream "SERVICE", so Tobias and Ben knew that all the dishes were ready. 

After work, Tobias, Ben and I went to "La Rive", or as we used to call it: “Fiesebar”. There, I’ve played table soccer with Tobias against the “Tschinkalar-Hood” and of course we won. The locals always called us “Calcetto-Maestri”, which means Masters of table soccer. After our epic battles we mostly were very tired and used to go to bed... But not on the 10^th of August. We decided to drink another beer. A beer with consequences. We haven’t finished our drinks and out of nowhere our Fiesebar closed. That’s the reason why we took our “to go”, a mistake as we knew later. After 2 minutes of walk Ben and I’ve finished our drinks. Tobias decided to not finish his delicious Beer and gave the bottle to Ben who threw it straight down to the sea, like a real UWV (Umweltverschmutzer). Now you probably think why I wrote “a beer with consequences”, right? I can tell you. As Ben had the “brilliant” idea to throw the bottle down to the sea at a height of minimum 20 meters, he hit a yacht this bottle.

The only thing we did then was running. Gladly nobody was hurt and everything was fine, also with the yacht.

I hope you enjoyed reading, C U

Lucca