Nomad JuanCa's Report

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Mmmm... it is 10.22am and i have about 22 min of being awake.. damn.. even though it is holiday my body can't sleep until midday anymore. :(

Well yesterday was the last day of 2006 and today is the first of 2007. It was a good night, but different to others... it was calmed, not much preparation, not much celebration either, not much drinks, just my mother and me and later on arrived my sister and her family. I had to work until 7pm then i went back home bringing some chicken for us (mom and me) to eat, we were chatting.. something we don't do quite often... and suddenly.... it all came to a point... the days when my mother was young and how hard times she had with her family, the way they threated her, all those troubles she had when she was teenager. It's not a new story to me, we have heard it many times and know it is true... i was just thinking... why? why to mention it, to remember it today... why?

And i got my answer, we all of us in a period of our live, turn around and look back, sometimes we find lot of achievements, we find lot of funny moments, but also find those hard times that marked us foreverer.... and sometimes we find out pain... lot of pain. I listenned to my mother cause i knew she wanted to tell me something, and i found out myself thinking about how would i be when i would be over 50. I think i will turn around and might find less pain... and it is thank of her. While she talked, she mentioned me she still saves a letter written by one of my uncles where they say she is not her sister anymore, it was afterwards she decided to scape and marry my father... she even mentioned she had a the original of it plus 3 copies. I told her why to keep all that, i mean... it was long time ago, sometimes... we have to let go the pain, it is the only way to find a cure. Hope she follows my advice.

So the lesson is.. never keep pain inside your heart, let it go.

After midnight, we went visiting neighbors and giving them good wishes for the next year (something very traditional) we ate turkey, pork... that's the good thing of new year and christmas.. everybody cooks mmmm!! I also discovered something... all the people we go visiting.. are my mother's/sister's friends... not mine. I tink it is something i have to change, i should get more interested in my neighbors. We cannot pass through life without get involved with the people around us.

Well apart from all that, here some pics of the main tradition here in Ecuador for new year, the burning of "old year" figures. Made of wood or anything that can be burned, we build every year someone or something to be burned, with the hope that after burning the bad things from the past year will disappear.

By the way some of the things i discovered during christmas is that there is a specific occupation i would like to try at least once in my life....This one...

Don't you think it is cool? i mean one can give so much happiness to people while just playing like a nice cartoon. I have seen so many kids happy because of these two guys that i really envy their job during this season... i would like to have one day the chance of dress like a nice polar bear and take pictures with kids and make their day.... after all few of us have the precious gift of making other's happy everyday.

Hiii, finally i am updating again... what a time without news huh?

Well, i have been working restless this month until today, that i had my first free day in this whole month. uff.. i was so tired.

Well, slowly i have gotten used to these guys that i work, even though they were my co workers, i never really had to interact with them cause i was working only on weekends, so working full time with them have been another experience, i think they are also sort of getting used to me, i have realised that i am really strict, like what they said in AIESEC, and it is funny because i don't ask them more than what they should actually do... arriving on time, fulfil their promises, and so on.. but in such a "flexible" country like Ecuador it is not well seeing.

My main troubles with these guys are....

Gary, is asking allowance to leave early ALMOST EVERYDAY, first days was ok.. but now is getting me really tired. I know his house is far but he has to finish with his schedule. Solution? Last Friday he asked me allowance to leave early again.. and i said. Let's ask everybody and let them decide. Off course they were not happy with it, but as he is a friend they allowed him and i said. Ok, you go early today but you will recover your working time on January 2nd, meaning you will work the whole day until the store closes (10am to 9pm). He accepted, hope he learns.

Shirley, i have been quite close to report her, she is arriving late everyday, sometimes an hour late. Today she arrived an hour and a half late, so i sent her an sms saying. "Shirley you are an hour late, we are waiting for you". I wasn't supposed to be at the store, but i did. I told Rosa, next time you have to come to the store when Shirley ends his turn,... arrive an hour and a half late. So she will understand how it feels. .... I hope she learns too.

Rosa, she says she is pregnant for third or fourth time of a guy who does not want to be father... i mean it sounds so stupid for me...sometimes i think this girl can't close the legs... sorry for the expression but it is something that bothers me. She had taken the costume of escaping and tell me she was going to the Dr but she was with her friends so last time she said "oh i feel bad and i want to go" i told her, ok, this is the last time. Next time you feel bad.. i will call your mother, because you know.. i get worried about you and you feel so bad.. it could be something serious, and i don't want anything bad to happen to you. The other day, she also told me i have to go Juan cause i have an appointment with the Dr. and i told her. You are not going anywhere, if you want to meet your Dr you do it out of working schedule. Looks like she has learnt a bit at least, but she keeps on gossipping about people.. something i hate.

Martha, she was getting same costumes like Rosa one day i let her leave the store for couple of hours and she came back almost 4 hours later. I got angry and that night i left her alone at the store so she would close it. I also made a comment the other day for her to come early cause she was arriving 1h40min belated. Looks like she is learning, hope so.. hope so

Xavier, he is the one giving me more troubles than anyone Elsa's. This guy does not fulfil anything he says, if he says i will be there.. he arrive too late or don't arrive. I have talked to him, told him not to do that and told him i know some of his excuses are not true.... but i think he has not learnt. He is supposed to open the store tomorrow and they whole day didn't show up to pick up the keys, also.. i called him hundred times and never answered his mobile. I had to even call his house to request his family to remind him not to miss the store opening tomorrow. As i am not sure if he will go or not i will have to wake up early tomorrow and call him home again just to make sure everything is fine... if he does not fulfil his responsibility tomorrow... i swear i will report him. I am tired of his though less attitude.

I know many of you might think i am too strict, but if you see it... i am just asking them to do the things the commit to do. Isn't it how it should be?

Sometimes i feel like i am crazy living in a world where your word and commitment have no value, but i hope i will teach these guys.. it does.