Montag, 3. Oktober 2016
food and people in Glasgow
jorrrrris, 21:37h
This time I will write mainly about food and people of Glasgow, well a lot of the food is common for Scotland or generally for Great Britain. Before that I will write some basic stuff about work, like what I was expecting and what happened so far.
I did expect to work hard, compared to school. Everything that not only requires to be physically present, is more than you need to do for school. The amount of intellectual challenges at school are almost non existent. So I hopped not to be challenged to much, not because I don't feel able fight intellectual challenges. More because I might not be used to it any more and my brain got shrinked like an dried cherry.
My first tasks felt kind of simple, they included mostly reading. Which was important and required, because I needed to understand the company product quite well and what they are doing at the moment. Other wise I would not be able to provide any help to them, so every day at work I will tell my colleague what the product does and I get better every time. The goal is to be able to talk to a potential investor, so a lot of details are important simply because they sound better and are more accurate. We are close to that goal.
After two weeks and some days I felt more important, because I am trusted with research tasks that are seriously important to the company.
Now let's switch to the people of Glasgow. First of all let me tell you, what everyone told me about the people before I could do my own experiences. I have heard that the people are amazingly nice, helpful and polite. Now I have made my own experiences and want to share them with you. Normally the people are quite nice and polite. Which means that you will please a person to enter the bus before you do, always. It is also common to line up for the bus, you may think we do that in Germany as well, but let me tell you, in Scotland, they really do it.
If you ask some stranger to help you find the right direction, he will tell you something, even if he don't know the direction, because he will feel ashamed for being able to help you, but most of the time they just ask someone else to help you. Being polite is something that is common in almost all of Europe is, expect Germany. In Germany people are to honest to be polite, so for me it's hard to be that polite all the time. Sometimes I catch myself in a moment where I could have been more polite, but that does not happen frequently and mostly when I am tiered. On the other hand it happens frequently that someone is polite to me, but I personally prefer if the person would be more it self and not covered in politeness. That makes it quite hard to get in personal contact with someone, like the people in my office, which I often have lunch with. The people are still very nice, so you can easily have a chat with someone, who has been a stranger to you until then. For example in a pub I often meet people who I could have spend sometime with or I did, if I had no company. Well at this point I stop and maybe tell you more, when I have made more experience.
Now let's get in to food, hopefully I don't need to take a lot of brakes, just because I am getting hungry. What do I think of, when I think of British food? A simple question to start the topic, well let's be honest, I think of a lot fat and sugar drinks. So nothing healthy at all, but a lot of tasty deep fried shit.
My expectations didn't miss the point. My host family is cooking quite well, with a lot of fresh vegetables, so a am not confronted by that in my everyday life and besides that I do enjoy the fatty fast food culture. Burger are at the side of fries the most popular food in Glasgow, so you will get them almost very where. Besides that Asian food and pizza are not uncommon, which is also mostly fatty food. I do enjoy the wide field of fast food, that you can mostly get at small take away shops.
All the bigger streets that lead in to the city centre are full of shops of all kind and about 80-90% are take away shops. The amount of take away shops really shocked me. I am willing to try all the fancy stuff they eat here, that includes food form fries with cheese, what I have not tried jet, over fried pizza to fried mars bars, which I feel a little addicted to, as disgusting as it sounds. Leaving fast food on the side, I do miss some things, like cheese and sausages. Yes there are cheeses and sausages but the amount off different sorts is very small. There are 3 main sorts of cheese which are cheddar 1, cheddar 2 and cheddar 3. Do I need to say more? With sausages it is no better, besides boiled ham and smoked ham is nothing. Well there are the small breakfast sausages, but I have eaten better sausages. That also explains why there is no need for real bread and yes I do miss bread. Now let's get positive again. I do get along quite well without all that stuff, because there is a lot of things that are able to replace them. In Germany I have abandoned my breakfast, but here I found myself comfortable with porridge and bakes beans for breakfast. I have varied with peanut butter in the porridge so it is not that lame and I do like my creation.
That's it for today.
I will try to up lode more frequently and make it shorter.
Pleased you read this far.
I did expect to work hard, compared to school. Everything that not only requires to be physically present, is more than you need to do for school. The amount of intellectual challenges at school are almost non existent. So I hopped not to be challenged to much, not because I don't feel able fight intellectual challenges. More because I might not be used to it any more and my brain got shrinked like an dried cherry.
My first tasks felt kind of simple, they included mostly reading. Which was important and required, because I needed to understand the company product quite well and what they are doing at the moment. Other wise I would not be able to provide any help to them, so every day at work I will tell my colleague what the product does and I get better every time. The goal is to be able to talk to a potential investor, so a lot of details are important simply because they sound better and are more accurate. We are close to that goal.
After two weeks and some days I felt more important, because I am trusted with research tasks that are seriously important to the company.
Now let's switch to the people of Glasgow. First of all let me tell you, what everyone told me about the people before I could do my own experiences. I have heard that the people are amazingly nice, helpful and polite. Now I have made my own experiences and want to share them with you. Normally the people are quite nice and polite. Which means that you will please a person to enter the bus before you do, always. It is also common to line up for the bus, you may think we do that in Germany as well, but let me tell you, in Scotland, they really do it.
If you ask some stranger to help you find the right direction, he will tell you something, even if he don't know the direction, because he will feel ashamed for being able to help you, but most of the time they just ask someone else to help you. Being polite is something that is common in almost all of Europe is, expect Germany. In Germany people are to honest to be polite, so for me it's hard to be that polite all the time. Sometimes I catch myself in a moment where I could have been more polite, but that does not happen frequently and mostly when I am tiered. On the other hand it happens frequently that someone is polite to me, but I personally prefer if the person would be more it self and not covered in politeness. That makes it quite hard to get in personal contact with someone, like the people in my office, which I often have lunch with. The people are still very nice, so you can easily have a chat with someone, who has been a stranger to you until then. For example in a pub I often meet people who I could have spend sometime with or I did, if I had no company. Well at this point I stop and maybe tell you more, when I have made more experience.
Now let's get in to food, hopefully I don't need to take a lot of brakes, just because I am getting hungry. What do I think of, when I think of British food? A simple question to start the topic, well let's be honest, I think of a lot fat and sugar drinks. So nothing healthy at all, but a lot of tasty deep fried shit.
My expectations didn't miss the point. My host family is cooking quite well, with a lot of fresh vegetables, so a am not confronted by that in my everyday life and besides that I do enjoy the fatty fast food culture. Burger are at the side of fries the most popular food in Glasgow, so you will get them almost very where. Besides that Asian food and pizza are not uncommon, which is also mostly fatty food. I do enjoy the wide field of fast food, that you can mostly get at small take away shops.
All the bigger streets that lead in to the city centre are full of shops of all kind and about 80-90% are take away shops. The amount of take away shops really shocked me. I am willing to try all the fancy stuff they eat here, that includes food form fries with cheese, what I have not tried jet, over fried pizza to fried mars bars, which I feel a little addicted to, as disgusting as it sounds. Leaving fast food on the side, I do miss some things, like cheese and sausages. Yes there are cheeses and sausages but the amount off different sorts is very small. There are 3 main sorts of cheese which are cheddar 1, cheddar 2 and cheddar 3. Do I need to say more? With sausages it is no better, besides boiled ham and smoked ham is nothing. Well there are the small breakfast sausages, but I have eaten better sausages. That also explains why there is no need for real bread and yes I do miss bread. Now let's get positive again. I do get along quite well without all that stuff, because there is a lot of things that are able to replace them. In Germany I have abandoned my breakfast, but here I found myself comfortable with porridge and bakes beans for breakfast. I have varied with peanut butter in the porridge so it is not that lame and I do like my creation.
That's it for today.
I will try to up lode more frequently and make it shorter.
Pleased you read this far.
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