Thursday, July 28, 2016

A quite relaxed evening shift at Overboard

Katrina left very early today to visit her family in Ontario. I shortly woke up around the time she left but then quickly fell asleep again. When I got up, she had left us a message with stuff we needed to pay attention to - for example keeping the door locked. She also wrote a line saying 'We're thirsty'  next to a drawing of flowers. I must have been pretty tired this morning because I didn't understand what she meant by that until Margo came down and we talked about it - of course it meant that we were supposed to water the plants sometimes.
Around noon I took a book and lay down on a lounger to get a little sun. However, after a while it got so hot that I went back inside.

I didn't do too much before my evening shift at the gift store. While waiting for my bus at the bus stop, I was once again astonished by the beautifully blue sky. I couldn't enjoy the sight too much though, since I was worried about being late again as the bus was taking its time. Nevertheless, I did manage to arrive at 'Overboard' just in time. Apparently the manager at 'Overboard' is less strict, as she said that it wouldn't have been too bad if I had been late due to the bus being late.
The store was quite messy when I arrived but we managed to clean it all up until my shift was over. During my dinner break, I decided to walk down to a little park at the water since we didn't have a lunch room at 'Overboard'. The spot at the ocean was quite nice but I was a bit annoyed by all the wasps there.
As there weren't too many customers this evening, I chatted a lot with my coworker Jennifer. She had travelled a lot through BC and Alberta in the past few days and consequently, she was pretty tired. We also talked a bit about places we had been to and food we typically ate - Jennifer had Dutch origins so we compared a few typical Dutch and German dishes.
When I got off at 10 PM, I quickly got my schedule for next week from 'Royal Garden' before going home.


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