trabajos

we have jobs!! we are so lucky..we found jobs in only 4 days...where as seira has been here for over a month has been looking for jobs the whole time and just got one. that seems to be the story for most everyone we have met on the island but we really lucked out! So we (chris and I) are working at a restaurant called Cantina La Reina, it's kind of a gourmet mexican restaurant with the most delicious food, for real its awesome!! the owners really really like tequila so at the bar they have all top shelf tequila and the margaritas are sooo good!! (which could be trouble?!?) :) I am working right now as the hostess and will possibly be trained as a waitress at some point. Chris is working in the kitchen washing dishing and plating food. It is seriously the smallest restaurant kitchen i have ever seen! its tiny and to have 5 people in there at a time is insane to me! But the owners are really chill and fun so we should have a good time working there we hope. We have had two days of work so far, opening night was friday and they had happy hour on the second and third floors, the third floor is a rooftop vista ( i think thats what you call it). It was so busy!! The restaurant had its grand opening this summer in june or july and then closed after the summer and they said that the opening on friday was the biggest crowd they had seen ever! so it was great! Saturday night was a record night too so i am sure they are bringing in the big bucks!! it is not a very big restaurant at all there are only 9 tables and then a bar on the 1st floor where we serve food, and chris said that on friday night they had 80 tickets in the kitchen!! Being at the front of the restaurant and greeting everyone who comes in is allowing me to meet a bunch of important people on the island, great contacts and people to know!! Its such a small island there really are no strangers and everyone says it only takes a while to know everyone and what they do, so im working on that! :) So we dont have a car or any means of transportation other than our legs at this point so we are walking to work. chris had to go into work friday and saturday at 2 and i didnt have to go in until 5 so he would walk to work and i would walk later, it takes about 25 min to walk there from the house...so on thursday we had a meeting at the restaurant and the day before one of the owners told me to get there around 4 so i had seira drop me off at 4 and i went to the restaurant only to have them tell me that we are not meeting until 6:30 and to go get drunk or something! ha well i was not too keen on the getting drunk part of that since i then had nowhere to go and no ride....so i walked back to the house...it was a really nice day so it wasnt too bad. Around 5:45 i start getting my stuff together to leave and as i am walking out of my room and heading out the door it starts raining :( not cool! so i grabbed my raincoat and since im such a nice person i grabbed chris' as well just in case ;). so i start walking and about 5 min into the walk it stops raining and its so hot in my raincoat i try to take of my raincoat which proved to be more difficult than one would think since i was hot and sticky the raincoat was like clingwrap and didnt want to uncling...it was probably a funny thing to see as i was walking down the road...so after struggling to get the raincoat off i walk a little bit more and it starts pouring....of course....right after i have wrestled to get the raincoat off i now have to wrestle to get it back on...grrrr... and then it rains like that the rest of the way to the restaurant it was sooooo hot and sticky. but i made it there and then it didnt rain on our way home that night. So on friday, opening night i was so pumped about my first day at work, i was getting ready and making sure i had everything, again as i am getting ready to walk out the door....it starts pouring :(....like flash flood, rivers running down the road, pouring....not what i wanted to walk to work in....luckily seira was here and i asked if she would mind giving me a ride..and she did thankfully...it would have been no fun to walk to work in that mess on the first day...but i am happy to report that saturday i walked to work with no problems!! so yay for jobs!! :)

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