i'm lovin' it

As promised, let me describe my work and the place I work:

Currently, I am working in on of the branch of McD in USA. In a town called Falmouth. McD is quite common in US people's life. Remember, there was one day, my friends and I saw an old granny hand shaking, putting a burger into her mouth, drinking soft drinks. I believe you don't see this often as old people are rather scare of diabetes.

Different from Malaysia, there exist a drink fountain in the store. Means that you can get a cup and unlimitedly refill soft drinks that you like. There are more variety of soft drinks than in Malaysia. Besides, there are more variety of burgers in US. But remember, McD in USA is non-halal. Hope that explain why there are more variety of burgers.

The manager is a nice guy. He is kind of funny and friendly. So far, I will say. Other workers complained about him behind him, but I believe he treated us better as we are just student. Most of my colleagues are Brazilian and they always speak Portugese. Perhaps, they speak something ill behind us, which we dun understand. Never mind, we do speak Malay. But anyway, most of them are pretty nice. Sometimes, there is communication breakdown, as they are not fluence in speaking English.

Working in McD, so far I tried making sandwiches and frying french fries. Making burger is stressful as they have a lot of requirement. Some customer dun want pickle, some want extra; some dun want ketchap, some want only ketchap. Quite picky compare to Malaysian. Of course, there are some cleaning job which included dish washing, sweeping, mopping and washing. Besides, working as cashier is a challeging as their coins and money are not easy to deal with. Firstly, all paper notes have the same color and size. Unlike Malaysia, red is RM10, green is RM5, and blue is RM1. Sometimes, will carelessly mistaken as another bill. So need be be more careful when handling the money. For coins, they have coins called quarter dollar, which is 25 sen. It is rather hard to count with this number. Worstly, this coin has almost the same size as nickel, which is 5sen.

And my uniform, different from Malaysia which is orange color with a weird hat, mine is a blue shirt and a black trousers with a cap. Simple. Below is a picture of my friend and I in uniform.

Save more money, to travel around.

p.s.: Finish typing in Falmouth Library at 7:19pm, 16 Dec 2009

2nd Week In USA

In USA for 2 weeks edy, and there are some interesting things happened the past week

• Opened a bank account and everything is fine. The ATM is user friendly, but i can't stand the delay from it. The tellers are unhelpful and there is no request counter. So lost in the bank.
• Use the public transport in USA to get to a mall during my off day. The bus was kind of scary as the people in the were youngster that looks like lala and there is alchoholic too
• The shopping mall in Hyannis is kinda small, nothing much interesting.
• Christmas is near and the shop windows are decorated. Sales are everywhere and I bought myself a levi's jeans for USD30
• The weather is turning cold and it started to snow the night before yesterday.
• That day, I started work at 6am. An old man came to me and asked whether I am fro China. He told me that he was rescued by the Chinese during WWII in China after shot by the Japanese. The Chinese brought him 40 something miles away to save him. What a story to tell the grandson.
• Had our Asian meal in US and it is not that expensive. Luckily...
• Yesterday there is a parade in town, and I missed it. I was working at that time. sigh. Anyway, this parade is organised for the high school students in the town, and everyone took their chairs and sit beside the road. Interesting.

Will talk about my job in my next post

PS: Finish typing in Falmouth at 8:55am 7 Dec 2009