Sunday, 30 March 2014

Visiting Schenker and a diving competition

Good morning lovely people out there!
I think I have to tell you something about the last 2 days, don't I? The sun is shining, it's really warm outside and I have nothing better to do, than writing a blog entry. No, just kidding ;)

Let's start with Friday. It was the first day we went by train to get to school. The school was almost empty, I think, because e.g. the 3rd year has to work on Fridays.

At 1 o´clock Jocke and I had an appointment at Schenker. The whole place is highly secured! About 180 cameras are installed and you can't go anywhere without permisson. That's why we had to get such a sticker for visitors. I have to use such things the next days when I'm going to work there as well ;)...
After smalltalk, we took a walk and were informed about the different departments in Värnamo. The funniest part for me was the department, where mistakes e.g. the adresses were corrected!
The most impressing part might be the warehouse. They have around 75 loading platforms. For me, that's a lot! But I can't compare Schenker with ECL Rostock. We've got very huge paper reels and Schenker uses to spread various other things, especially small parcels. So if we would have 75 loading platforms, we might use the whole international port of Rostock, because I think our loading platforms are much bigger o.o... Maybe I should measure that.
I can't recall many things of that walk, perhaps I was tooo nervous ><... But next week I inform you  about everything in more detail, especially about the several departments. I will visit each department and after that I can decide which one impressed me most and I'm going to start there for the remaining time.


After a calming ice pop, we got back to school, where Jocke wanted to prepare some lessons for the next week and I wanted to do a bit of sight seeing.
I was wallking around without intention, explored the home town of Bruno Mathsson, called my Mum for the first time after almost a week and enjoyed the very nice day of spring.

Around 5o´clock Frida fetched us at the school, because on Saturday Pontus attended a diving competition in Malmö!





First we drove to Trelleborg. There we spent the night at Jocke's Mum's flat. She has the perfect view over the harbor! It must be very nice to live there and observe the ferries every day ;)

Yesterday, we got up quite early, although we said that we want to sleep as long as we can, haha. So, after fetching Jocke's Mum, we drove to Smygehuk, Jocke's hometown. In addition, it is the most southern part of Sweden ;)
I liked it there. The smell of the sea, seagulls, ... It reminded me of home.

Afterwards, our journey continued to Malmö. First we stopped by the beach. From there you can see the Öresund brigde, which was pretty amazing. It is HUGE!
We continued by visiting the town, where Frida wanted to buy some thights in a special shop. I've never seen a store just for socks and thight, I think. But they had some really good stuff. 
Eventually, after a perfect meal at Mando, we had to drive to the diving competition immediately, because Pontus missed his parents and he was quite nervous.
So the next four hours we spent there. In my point of view all of the kids did a reeeeeaaaally good job, especially when they jumped from the 3 metres diving board. How could all of them be so brave? I was always afraid, that they would get hurt in some way during the 'German jump'... like jumping backwards and plunging into the water forward.  Thankfully nobody got hurt!

Afterwards we drove back to Jönköping. We had some dinner and then I was falling asleep almost immediately I touched my bed...

2 comments:

  1. Yeah, that is really amazing. No time to feel bored or homesick. You really get to know a whole Swedish family including work, school and hobbies!!! So have you already learnt some Swedish sentences? How do you communicate? Well Jocke seems to care a lot about you. I am really grateful for this. and no negative impressions so far? I can`t wait your reports about work. I am really very curious. Hear you soon. Mrs Te

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  2. Actually there is really no time to feel homesick, and I'm glad about this ;)
    Unfortunately I'm always a bit too tired to learn some Swedish, but it's on my to-do list.
    What do you mean 'How do you communicate?' In English of course!
    And, yes, Jocke seems to care about me, and his family a well. All of them are so lovely, I don't want to miss them anymore. Perhaps I should take them with me ;)

    Thank you for reading everything. I hope it satisfies your expectations..

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