No plans is the best plans

This was the first weekend with zero plans and I really enjoyed just doing nothing at all.

It's getting quite busy at work and we've had a couple last minute booking requests as well but luckily when it's last minute, the customer knows exactly what they want and we can just message the hotel to book it for them.

On Thursday we left the office earlier to check out two cool Amano-group hotels. It was really nice because I've only done that kind of stuff once in Finland for a school project. The guy who presented the hotels to us was super nice although he spoke a little bit too fast (as German people always do) so I didn't get everything he said but most importantly I got to see two really nice hotels.

One of the many rooms we saw, behind the wall on the right was another bed

Rooftop terrace at Amano Grand Central (which wasn't quite finished yet)

Bar terrace view

After the tour we sat down at the hotel bar for drinks which was really nice.
For next week I don't really have plans but the on the 8th of September I'm going for lunch or dinner with my coworkers in the TV tower, I've never been up there so it should be cool!

P.S. I can't wait for the weather to cool down, I've had enough of this +30 degree weather...

Busy life in a busy city

Tomorrow I've been here for two very busy weeks, busy is actually an understatement but all I can say at this point is that I really love Berlin more and more every day.

During my time here I've had only one day without any plans and that was on Sunday after I came back from the Destruction Derby Festival in Rosslau. I stayed in bed all day because I was very tired, only got a couple hours of sleep on Saturday night but it was beyond worth it. If you know me, you know that I love concerts a LOT and Berlin (and Germany in general) is like a paradise to me because almost every tour that I'd like to see comes here. Every show has been totally worth the hours spent on travels and the not so glorious number of hours slept, can't wait for the next ones!

Stick To Your Guns @ Summerblast Festival, Trier 15/08

Thy Art Is Murder @ Cassiopeia, Berlin 18/08

More Than A Thousand's last show in Germany @ Destruction Derby, Dessau-Rosslau 22/08 - definitely going to miss these guys! :(

So as it comes to the REAL reason why I came to Berlin, so far I've had the nicest time at the office. For the first week I mainly wanted to just see how everything works there and in the meantime I helped with translating some hotel and excursion descriptions as the other Finnish-speaking person is on vacation right now. Oh and I helped writing some offers to clients too.

My second week has barely started and requests keep coming in at the office as the season starts. Today I finished writing the company's newsletter for September (in English and Finnish) and they also gave me three accommodation requests for individual customers or small groups to handle. They weren't easy, lots of email-exchanging in three different languages and I even had to take a call in from a contact person... Yikes! Tomorrow I'll get to practice writing an invoice and send it since one of my today's customers wanted to book the hotel I offered to them. :)

Coffee is always a necessity

I haven't really had time to explore the city or take pictures of the neighbourhood I live in or anything yet but here's a snap of Reichstag from one of my first days here. 

(B)E(R)LINA

So this is where I'll be writing about my internship in Berlin! It's going to be in English so if you don't understand, just use Google Translate or ask your mother or whatever!

Last week I took a pretty big step in my life and finally moved to Berlin for a few months. When I started my travel business studies at Helmi Business College (Liiketalousopisto) I found out that with them it's possible to do the 4/5-month internship abroad which is included in my studies. At that time I had been to Berlin a few times and had absolutely fallen in love with this city so I decided I'm going to come here. And I did.

I've been here for six days now and it's all very new to me especially because I have never ever moved. The first couple weeks are going to be exhausting but I'm sure I'll be just fine. I know my way around and the public transportation is running so perfectly in the whole city. The only "problem" is that I haven't used German in years... I understand a lot but it's really hard to start getting words out of my mouth again.

Anyway, I had my first day at work today and it was amazing, my office rules! I'll keep updating every now and then when I have more stuff to tell.
Until then, tschüß!