Ouch

True working life is hopefully not going to be part of my nearby future... The waking up early is one part, the other downside is the fact that you reach home so tired that you aren't able to enjoy your free time and before you know it, you go to bed and wake up only to notice that the next working day has arrived. Then again, I don't expect I will ever be employed for the kind of physical labour which my summer job consists of, so maybe I shouldn't worry about it at all. :P Weekend was good for me though, the tops of both of my middle fingers seem to be healed (they were red and infected due to scratching them too often against the cardboard) and I was able to relax and spend time on more enjoyable matters.

On Saturday we went to see Pirates of the Caribbean II, after having seen the first part again on TV friday night. I liked it. :) Especially Johnny Depp is as good as ever in his part, he totally makes up for Orlando Blooms characters silly interventions. ;) Personally I thought the film had a bit of a slow start, but moving on this changes so in the end it wasn't a disturbing factor anymore.

Yesterday on the other hand I actually did something reasonably useful. As some of you know, I was planning on applying for a translator internship at the EU-headquarters. For this I had to fill out a form on the internet and write down why I wanted to work for the EU and later on why I wanted to work as a translator. I understand they set these requirements, but in the end it is complete rubbish what you write in it. For my Erasmus I also had to write some kind of motivation, but back then five lines filled with twice as many lies or exaggerations would do the job. Plus it was in English, a language in which I feel I am allowed to use preposterous words as I just did. In Dutch however this is completely out of question. So after quite some struggling and backspacing I managed to write two to the point motivational texts containing only a few overstatements and fancy descriptions. I never quite liked my dutch writing skills. The grades of my essays at high school or university that were written in my mother tongue always were considerably lower compared to the ones in a different language. The french ones not included of course, they sucked in any case. :P
One more thing about the application. I do NOT expect to be hired! Apparently the standards for being taken in are quite high, so chances that I actually will make it are very small. Especially not at a first attempt, so this is just something I want to have tried, not something I will plan the rest of the upcoming year upon. It would be quite a job experience though, so I keep my fingers crossed that I manage to send all the documents on time and that they will like my application file. :)
Imagine....

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