It’s been quite some time since the 4 girls went to work together. And since there was 4 of us, we decided to CAB (:

Boy oh boy was it boring during the orientation. There were about 30+ people altogether inside the training room.

It started at like 9am when the speaker introduced the mission, vision etc. It was so boring because we heard all these before already!

Then all the big shots of the hotel came to present 8 guiding principles.

Okay, did I mention that the orientation was all in CHINESE?

Except when the big shots were presenting, because 90% of them are not local. But there was still translation into Chinese and it wasn’t very accurate.

Lunched for 1 hour, but we only took half an hour. We then headed back to in-house dining to go drink honey lemon water! We made like 5 cups altogether and even told our manager. He didn’t say anything!

After the break we had to back to the room again. Another speaker came in and spoke to us about grooming standards.

At that point of time, we were quite restless already. Some comments were passed which resulted in very loud laughter!

Oh, something totally embarrassing happened to me. I made peppermint tea after the lunch break and brought it back to my seat. While stirring it, somehow I slipped and the whole cup of hot peppermint tea spilled all over me.

OUCH. Damn painful cuz the water was very hot. And it was super embarrassing also cuz everyone stared at me!

We also started drawing all over our booklet (which was in Chinese) because we were so bored. Then we had to fill up some blanks in the book (in Chinese) but I gave up and wrote everything in English.

Good thing is that not only the 7 of us were poor in Chinese, but a guy in front of us (Australian) didn’t understand too!

Joanne then started to teach YJ and I how to sing Happy Birthday – hotel’s Café’s version.

We went outside the room to try to sing! I got the tune (because it was the same as Barney’s theme song) but YJ took ages to get it!

The training ended at 5pm. Oh, there’s a test after the whole orientation? We are so screwed because it’s in Chinese. We told them we’ll need like half a day to complete the paper not because we don’t know how to do it but because we can’t read or write.

After the orientation, we decided to go to Super Brand Mall to check out the ice skating rink. No intention of skating- just to check out the prices and all.

BUT only today there was some discount thing going on and the total amount each person needed to pay was RMB50 for 2 hours to skate. Quite tempting because this discount is only on every Monday for this month.

And I was in such a wrong attire for ice-skating. Tee shirt and shorts!

But because we don’t know when the girls will have the same shift again we decided to ice-skate!

And the rink was EMPTY. We had the whole skating rink to ourselves for like 1 hour before a few more people came to skate (:

I was COLD, but not that cold! I could still survive despite wearing so little.

After the 2 hours, we walked back and went to the supermarket to stock up on juices and junk food. I am so going to die, buying junk food like nobody’s business.

Orientation is so boring; I’d rather be packing moon cakes!