On the 2nd of January, we had to start work. Milli and Amanda played tourist in Amsterdam city again, and Kinga and I tried (and failed) to set up bank accounts.
In the Netherlands, everything takes four times as long as you’d expect. There is no urgency at all, everyone just runs their own timetable and shows up whenever they’re good and ready. After filling in bank forms, we were told to just wander around the nearby mall until our 2pm meeting. It was 10am. So for four hours, we were going to be just shopping and getting paid for it? Uh, hello dream job!
In the middle of this time, my flatmate Cherilyn finally showed up (straight off the plane from Las Vegas).
Our 2pm meeting basically involved three women with minimal English trying to explain to us how to find our cars. Each apartment has a lease car that the flatmates can share (except for Kinga’s house, they have 3 boys and 2 cars). Cherilyn and my car is an Audi Passat station wagon – excellent for road trips, not so excellent for parking in europe!
Cherilyn and I were supposed to be driving to Eindhoven (about an hour and a half south of Amstelveen) that evening, in order to start work on the 3rd of January. But, the incharge and the manager on the job were both still on holiday and we couldn’t get hold of anyone! We finally got a call from the incharge, who told us to drive up the next morning.
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