Phew, it's a lot to learn!

Sorry it took so long :(

I have been overwhelmed by all the knowledge and my body is protesting from time to time!

Wow, never thought I'd feel stupid in not being able to get all that information in my head quickly enough. I'm not the dumbest, right?

I passed all my tests (even though I'd missed 2 days of training), so it's not bad, but I get really stressed for not knowing all the recipes yet and for not being able to find the orders on the cash register fast enough for my own liking :/

When I lay my head down to rest, the mochas, lattes and frappuccinos are buzzing around so loud, that I have trouble falling asleep.

Silvi (our assistant store manager) is sooo patient with all of us and when we get something wrong or get a black-out (in my case my brain screams "black-out" whenever I hear the word "mocha"!), she gently nudges us in the right direction :) We are very lucky to have her as our trainer!

She's always in for a laugh too, which really helps lighten the atmosphere :D

Introducing my team (the blue team), we have:

Silvi (Indonesian, assistant store-manager)

Angie (British, shift supervisor)

Mina (Dutch, student, barista)

Hania (Polish, student, barista)

Robert (Dutch, barista)

and undersigned (Dutch/Italian, homemaker, barista :)

Nice international group, right! I feel so at home in this ambience.

The plan is for us to all speak Dutch, but we all tend to switch to English.

Only Andrew (US, district manager) is very consequent in speaking Dutch and I must compliment him for the fact that he's managing quite nicely in this horrible-to-learn language!

I have two days off now (if you can speak of "day off" when being a fulltime homemaker too...) and have LOTS to do, so I'm signing off :)

Blessings & mocha love!

(Brainwashing has begun...)

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