Working for the man...

Now that I just checked-in an erotic thriller DVD...

Today's my third day on the job at la Biblioteca Regional de Castilla-LA Mancha (yeah, I get to update from work), and it's been quite different from the first week. During the first week I worked with some really awesome ladies, and today the women I worked for were really cool too. However, then there is the one guy I have had to work since starting. For the last half hour, I was stuck alone with him...uf! He's rather impatient and quite mean, and he doesn´t have the same politeness that the other women have. He also appears pained when he has to listen to me, answers me bluntly and coldly, and when I ask how to do something he just doesn't because it appears he can't be bothered to teach me. Dude! If you don't teach me, how am I ever going to learn. He's the first person I haen't liked here, and am so happy when he takes breaks. Another thing that bothered me was that he left me alone for about a 5 minute period. I'm not supposed to be left alone because a lot of times there are lectores (borrowers) who I can't understand or things, like issueing new library cards, I don't know how to do yet. I don't think the others like him too. For example, as soon as he left on a pausa de fumar (smoke break), the woman I was working with quickly snapped off his music and gave a universal face of extreme annoyance...I simply responded "de acuerdo" (I agree). Loli, another woman, has come back to work from her breakfast break, so it's not as bad now because I can ask her questions and she is really nice about things.

Other than grumpy man, I cannot complain about this job. It's fantastic, I am meeting a lot of people (including native Spaniards, International students, and immigrants) and learning a lot of Spanish. Well worth putting up with grumpy men. C'est la vie...