First week of work at Bombardier Transportation

september, 8th 2008
It’s been a busy week, yes!
First of all, I started my job at Bombardier. It’s been a training week for all the new internal auditor, which are Ming, a Chinese girl, Igor, a Russian guy, Sarah, a British girl, Luis a guy from Venezuela and myself.
A lot of information, new procedures, databases, figures, “how to” s and a lot of in some way useful stuff but too much!! I am really looking forward to starting to Work, not training, although it’s going to be really tough to do English reports, and have to do everything in English… I hope to get used very soon!
We also had a brief overlook to our coming agenda. Tomorrow I am flying to Pittsburgh, US. On Friday we will go to Montreal, Canada, coming back to Berlin on the 17th. Next week I will go to Madrid and the week after to Crespin, France. So, not bad for being the first weeks!! I just hope to have enough time to get to know Berlin!!

Apart from work, I have very good news, I FINALLY FOUND A SHARED FLAT!! Yeees!! It’s been hard, but finally I can say that I fly to the States with a fixed place to stay. It’s in Prenzlauer Berg, one of the best areas to live in Berlin, close to loads of restaurants, bars, parks, and so on. My room is very big (with a lack of furniture that I will fix when I arrive from Montreal), the flat is very nice, and my flatmate is a French guy, Bastien. He seems very nice also, I think we will get along very well (in case he reads that, I will not tell bad things about him… just joking, he is indeed nice ;-)

This weekend I went out with some guys from Bombardier. We went to a cool club called BANG BANG CLUB. It’s in Hackescher Markt, near AlexanderPlatz. We had a very good time in there. At the beginning it was a german band playing some music. It was something like rock, but we just heared two songs, so I can’t tell you much about them… and after the gig we had a indie rock session, with very good music. It reminded me a lot the kind of music you can hear in the Sala Indie in Razzmatazz. It was fun!! And beer, and shots of Burgemeister… I had my first german hangover. YEAH!