Saturday, June 21, 2003

I got my Danish passport today! Hurrah! it doesn't expire until 2013! Hurrah! I think I'm lactose intolerant & anaemic! Damn. I was wondering why I felt ill after eating yoghurt for breakfast every day and the answer finally dawned on me after drinking a glass of chocolate milk and feeling unbelievably nauseous. As for my constant lethargy of late, I'd assumed that I had become really addicted to coffee - to the point where even drinking 3 cups in a row didn't make me feel any more alive.

Apart from all that, I'm lying around enjoying the good weather here. At least I was until it started raining all the time a few days ago. Have being trying to keep up my Danish through reading etc., as I finished the main part of my course a few weeks ago. The exams went very smoothly & now I don't have classes again until the end of August.

I had a job... until I quit it after 1 day. It was a really shite telemarketing job which involved calling people in England, lying to them heaps & then trying to make them so scared that they wouldn't say no when you casually yet firmly mentioned that you were going to send them a 'small' package of lighting tubes & who should you make the bill out to? The company also had some great sales techniques figured out like rambling more bullshit lies at the the poor people on the other end of the line & then saying "right?" at the end of the sentence. The theory is that once the person has said "yes" about 5 times, they're in such a trance that they'll say it again when you tell them that they're buying something.

After telling the manager that I didn't feel morally comfortable in such a job, I went out and looked for another in the nearby theme park (the oldest in Europe or the world or something, apparently). Found myself a much more honest part-time position washing dishes & something else (could have been frying... my Danish isn't perfect & I didn't want to make the fact even more obvious by asking the woman to repeat). I have a trial for that in July, after I get back from the Roskile Festival, which I'm going to on Sunday. I'll be working in the car park again, with 2 friends this time. I pray that I'll be as lucky as last year & nobody will piss on my tent.