Thursday 19th June - Not much to say

I haven’t written anything for a while, party because the internet’s been down, and partly because nothing much has happened. I spilt my first drink over a customer on Wednesday, but he didn’t mind too much. He wasn’t a real member anyway; he was at the club on a company outing. 200+ people from his company came along to play golf for a day, which meant that we go to be their bitches for a day, serving them three meals and drinks. Apparently they were all Jewish, which would explain why such big portions were taken. For the evening meal, I worked as a runner for the kitchen staff, who were manning the buffet outside. My job was to run inside and get more food whenever they were running low. In theory this should have been quite a simple job, except that more food was eaten than the chef had anticipated. So on top of running back and forth to the kitchen, I got the joy of watching the head chef slave away in the kitchen trying to make more food on the spot – a feat which even my mum would be impressed at.
I still haven’t had the chance to go to a shop to buy food or beer yet – hardly any alcohol has passed my lips since I got to Piping Rock, and I’m sure that it can’t be good for my body to go for this long without getting drunk. I really want to buy a kettle too - I’m having to boil water for cups of tea using a saucepan at the moment. Another English person arrived today, taking the total number of Britons up to five. Soon we’ll have enough to be able to put up a decent argument as to how things are meant to be pronounced.

Spent most of my shift this afternoon trying to understand the American frame of mind when it comes to travelling. I was speaking to Ryan (a guy who’s happy to live in the same town for the rest of his house without ever leaving the country to go abroad) and I just couldn’t understand his point of view. Turns out it’s not just him either, apparently most Americans would be happy never to travel abroad, taking the view “it’s nice in America, what’s the point of going anywhere else?”