The last couple weeks have been really tiring. I've been working a lot, and studying too little, but still more than is normal for me. At work I finished up checking both of the websites, joulupukkitv.com and santatelevision.com, correcting all of the grammatical errors and everything. I have started to translate the entire santatelevision website to chinese. I spent about 8 hours today translating, and am now braindead. It's really tiring work, and takes a while, but it is nice to know that I am capable of doing the translating, which not too many people can say.
My boss is back in town for the week. He works about 3/4 of the time from his home in Luxembourg. So today we talked a lot, I asked lots of questions about what all he wants translated and stuff. On a good note, I don't have to write a chinese transcript for all of the videos yet, but that'll come later. On that note, if anyone knows someone with a good chinese voice that could pass for Santa Claus, let me know, my boss is interested in hiring someone to do some voiceover work for a couple videos, and my voice is "too young."
I did find out a little bit about the pay. The company is short on money right now, as are most companies, due to the recession, but today he guaranteed me 600 euros (300/month I'm working fulltime), and more if they can afford it come May.
As for school, I finished up my Asian Business class last week. Last Wednesday was the last day of classes, and our final paper (10 pages) was turned in yesterday. I'm still in Intercultural Communications, Survival Finnish, and Business Communications, and International Sales Negotiations starts on March 1.
Next Monday I'm going to the Ranua Zoo for Intercultural Communications, which should be pretty sweet, it's supposed to be the best arctic zoo in the world or something. I'm mainly looking forward to seeing the polar bears and lynx.
Today was some kind of national holiday, so we didn't have any classes, but that just meant I had more time to work, so wasn't as relaxing as the other exchange students, some of whom just relaxed at the dorms, and some participated in a snow football (soccer) tournament across town.
Well, I'm gonna finish up my dinner and go to the sauna, so I'll leave you with this picture I took on the way back to the dorms today. The sun's been out a lot longer now that winter's coming to a close (still -20 degrees though), so today at like 5:15 the sun was just finishing setting, and the sky looked awesome.
Thanks for the update. It's good to know you are staying busy and hard at it.
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