As you all know I have put in many hours and worked very hard the last 3 months at work, working 9 days straight so I can earn 4 days off in a row with jessica (against french law might I add), but I did it because I have good work ethic. And when the chef asks me to stay late I say yes chef...Man I really hope my staff one day treat me this way. So anyways I was speaking to my Sous chef (who does teh scheduling) the other day and I told him I am leaving Lyon early Monday mornign for Italy and if I can have sunday off to pack adn say good bye to my friends here that would be great. So he says to me he'll see what he can do. Then the other day I said to him can I have Saturday morning off as well ill work the 8 days s traight its not a problem...so he asks me why only the morning? I told him my rabbi friend always invites me over for shabat dinner and and lunch and I always turn him down because of work and my last time here I want to go. so he tells me he'll see what he can do. I planned on maybe calling in sick if i have to for the morning.
So Sunday night when he was doing hte scheduling he pulls me aside after he was doen to ask me if I was ok with what he did. Basically I work 4 days get one day off get another 4 days of work and im off saturday and Sunday!!! YEY me. And to say thank you he put me on Vacation station for most of the rest of my time here...
Vacation station is a kitchen term for a station where there isnt a lot of work needed to be done for it. Its a pretty easy station as the guy working it is usually a commis (lowest guy on the pole, because he/she doesnt have that much experience) but lately because of short staffing the Sous chef has been working it, so he doesnt have much work to do but to relax and as they say here in france finger in the nose, finger in the nose...lol
So I am pretty happy for the way the schedule has turned out.
Ok onto the next thing. As some of you might know I have been in limbo as to what to do for passover. I was thinking of working at a hotel, but I called some places last week and they all use the same people they use all year round so they arent looking to hire. But I also called and emailed someone in Milano Italy last week, and the other day got a reply that they might be able to use me, adn I should call them when i get into Italy. Well I called the guy today, turns out hes friends with my brother in laws parents, his family in toronto is close with my family, and also has connections in montreal and australia with my family...i dont think he has made the connection yet though...i'll tell him.
So I called him this afternoon (france time) and we spoke for a few minutes, and he said he has arestaurant in Venice that I might be of good use for. So he asked me what my plans are and how long I am in Europe for. I told him that I am pretty much open for work after Purim when I go back to Milano to see my brother in laws family. He said to set up a meeting when I come to Milano. I told him since I have sunday the 31st of January off, I can come from lyon to Milano and meet with him Sunday night hopefully. He said that was a good idea and to call him next week to confirm his scheduling for the following sunday.
So I changed my ticket instead of going to Torino I am going to go to Milano a day earlier. Its ok, I'll see if I can stay with my BIL parents for sunday night so I dont have to go to a hotel.
Tomorrow I will hopefully go to the history of the resistance that I went to today but was closed. I will also try to go to the old city of lyon and look for a certain cookbook, that I cant seem to find in regular book stores. But someone said to maybe check out the old bookstores in the old city... so Ill check it out.
Something funny....when jessica was here and we went to avignon as soon as we got off the train jessica introduced me to the funniest song in my mind, I think even funnier when jessica sings it and dances...shes awesome..ok so anyways for two days we snag sur le pont d'avignon and danced especially wehn we actually were on the bridge....and when things are down I think of jessicas smiling face dancing the song with me being silly together. So I added it to my playlist. It is funny replaying silly jessica singing sur le pont song...haha
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