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Vacuuming

Since saturday I started working in the evening/night. Alot of the fellow Exchange students work in the MesseCenter so I decided to check it out.  MesseCenter is an exposition hall. When there are big expositions they need i think around 50 students every night to clean the halls, so everything is nice and shiny again next day. Basically we have to vacuum the carpets in the hallways and the ones of the stands. Saturday was the first day, because sunday was the first exposition day. We cleaned from 20 till 23:30 in hall E with a bunch of chinese people. I was a bit late and forgot my MP3 player so 3:30hours of vacuuming without music was very boring. Sundayevening was madness, the first day, the opening day, had clearly been a successfull day, if i looked at the dirt on the carpets. This day I drove to messecenter with the girls from AgroSkolen. We cleaned hall C on sunday evening. this was a long evening. We started at 19 and finished around 24. Thank god I had my music. Mondayevening was from 21 till 2 and Tuesday was from 19 till 23:30. I must say, hours and hours of vacuuming, its not always that easy. If you got a good vacuumer the hardest part is just standing up all the time, but last time I had a crappy cleaner which was sucking itself stuck to the carpet like crazy. This made cleaning the long haired black carpet in the middle of my way alot harder. I felt like I was working in the gym, but the music maked it all bearable for me. When I am listening to great Trance music, I can do the most boring job for a long time. After all this cleaning makes some good money. Around 116DKK is the basic wage, and after 22:00 or in the weekends the wages goes up some more, so it aint that bad I must say. The bad thing is that you dont really have any time in the evening for friends or for school work. The school work is kindof the biggest problem, because when there is work in messecenter, birk is dead. Almost every exchange student goes to work there, so there is nothing to do here anyway (except for the school work fcorz).

This work is not on a daily basis, it is only when there are exhibitions so, it is most of the times only a few days in a month. Perfect for student work.