Nice weather, nice people, nice work.

My internship in Mittelberg in the Klein Walsertal was great, but I also had to fight with homesickness. So one of my work colleagues said to me, “You needn’t be homesick, because we are your new family.”

As you can see, I had a beautiful view at the mountains. Looks a little bit spooky. I loved the rare storms with loads of rain, lightnings and thunder, so it could cool down a Little bit. Most of the time the sun was shining, so I could go hiking or swimming in the privat lake with the other hotel employees.

I’ll miss the time at the Hotel Haller’s and my new family who made my Internship not as bad as I thought it would be.

An awesome internship in Mellau

Hi everyone out there!

I read all the exciting blogs about your experiences you had in the internships. I’m glad to hear that you guys are fine. I had an awesome summer as well in my internship in the hotel sonne in Mellau.

Honestly I have to say that I wasn’t sure first if my internship will be a great time. The first days confirmed me my fear. The other waiters had all been from other countries with their own languages. Whether I didn’t understand them or they didn’t understand me correctly. But I knew that I have to work there for many weeks so I said to myself, that if I try I can make the best of it. And I was really surprised how soon this got real. I spoke to them in simple sentences and suddenly they wanted to learn some German words from me. Gradually it got quite funny. It surprised me how your own stance can change your mind. The person who impressed me the most was a twenty-two years old girl from Hungary. She had been working in the hotel for 2 years now, while her whole family is living in Hungary. And anyway she was always happy.

The main tasks I had to do were looking after the guests, bring them their meals and drinks und set the buffet and put it down again. In the evening I had my own station, which had about eight to ten tables. By the time working got really exciting. One thing I will never forget about my time there is the feeling when you see a smile on the guest’s face, because they’re feeling comfortable and good.

I’m really looking forward to read some more blogs about your experiences.

Yours,

Diana

Internship summer 2016

Internship summer 2016

Hello everybody to my todays blog!

I would like to talk about my internship I did for the past two months. Because I was a bit late with searching for a place to do my internship I took what I got – this was the Falstaff restaurant in Casino Bregenz. It didn’t look too bad in general, it’s not too far from where I live, has a good reputation and I even knew an apprentice before.

When I arrived there it wasn’t really as it seemed. Unorganised staff organisation, very inconvenient working times, and you have about 10 bosses over you who all think they have to tell you how to do your work.

But all together it was ok to me I was treated as a normal Team member – means the work was as hard as a normal team members work but also I was given as much responsibility as any other team member. It was very interesting to see what it’s like to be part of the service in a restaurant like this, after that I can definitely tell that this won’t be what I will do in future.

After all it was a tough but instructive time.

What was your guys summer like? I'd love to get responses.

This year's internship

Hi folks,

hope you all enjoyed your summer. I want to give you some insights into my internship this year.
When we started at our Hotel "Schloss Fuschl", we were very impressed by the way things were organised there. The Hotel was very old and pompoused, which perfectly suited to the landscape of Lake Fuschl.

At the beginning, we had our little problems getting to know all the employees and all the ways through the castle, but after one week, we felt really comfortable. Most of the time at our 9 week-internship we served meals and prepared the tables for lunch or dinner. Furthermore we learned a lot about food and drinks. Especially about wines because we always tasted wines before dinner started.

Lucca enjoying his day off! :)

During leisure time we often went swimming in the sea and we spent a lot of time with our working colleagues. Sometimes we made a trip to other lakes or to Salzburg which was very funny.
I would definitely recommend this hotel to other students because it's a great place to meet new people and learn a lot about tourism.

Cheers,

Dave

Our internship in the Dolomites!

Our internship in the Dolomites!

This summer Melissa and I spend our time in South Tyrol and worked there three months for our internship. We decided to go to the hotel Cristal in Obereggen which is 1600 meters high above the sea level. But how did we get to this Hotel in the Dolomites? Our Italian teacher recommended us this working place. 

On our arrival we thought the time won’t pass because it was a VERY small village with about 90 inhabitants. Our first day at work was a little bit confusing because our work mate Alexander arrived quite late for work. The accommodation we stayed in for the time of our placement was part of the Hotel and it was quite a nice room. 

The main tasks we had to do were bringing the people coffee in the morning and take away the dishes from the table. After having breakfast, we had to clean up the buffet and the dining hall.
Setting the tables for the evening was also part of our tasks.
In the evening we had to serve the dishes of the four-course menu and make wine service in front of the guests. 

We learned much in our internship for example always being polite, punctual and honest. And you always have to be hardworking too.

We recommend our placement because the working mates and the hotel directors are very nice people and we were allowed to do a lot tasks.

So maybe you will make your next internship in the Hotel Cristal and improve your Italian skills.

Thank you for reading our blog and have a nice day!

Melissa and Verena

 

 

My internship

Hi everybody! 

My friend David and me did our internship at the Lake Fuschl. We worked at “Schloss Fuschl” for 9 weeks and we had a lot of fun at work and in our free time where we sometimes mad a little journey to Salzburg or to the lake. We had the luck to live in the Sheraton Hotel “Jagdhof” which is about 800 m away from our Workplace and the Lake.

It was a really great internship and we totally can recommend this hotel to work there! The Team that works at “Schloss Fuschl” is great!

If you want to get some more information about Schloss Fuschl klick here -> http://www.schlossfuschlsalzburg.com/

I hope you also enjoyed your internship!

Yours

Lucca