My internship in Carinthia
Helloo guuys!
I warmly welcome you to my very first blog entry. If you don’t know me, my name is Susanne Reiter, I am 17 years old and fun fact: I live somewhere in nowhere. In this blog, I would like to tell you about the experiences I made during my internship in Carinthia.
To start at the beginning, in my school you have to complete a practical training for three months. My first priority was to spend my internship not in my home region, but rather in one which is far away from my home. But don’t get me wrong, I love my home village and my family at my home, but I wanted to experience something completely different. Therefore, I went to Carinthia, more precisely, to 
the Klopeinersee. There I worked in a café-restaurant called Seerose which was (and still is) located at the lake. But luckily, I was not the only one at this restaurant – one of my best friends went with me. Because we spent three months away from our home, we had the opportunity to stay in a bed & breakfast. This was about five minutes away (by bike) from my practical training place. And also the “Seerose” offered us to have lunch and dinner there.
You now may be interested in the place I worked in. The Seerose is a medium-sized restaurant with about 53 tables and a lot of space for many costumers (I’m sure there were millions of guests a day 😉 at least, that’s how it felt because it was often very stressful). In order to manage these stressful situations, we were 35 employees – and that just in the service sector. In the kitchen, there were nine cooks employed. So you can imagine, what I meant by enormous stress.
But now you are surely wondering what I did there. First of all, you have to know that the service sector is divided into different “jobs”. So there were a couple of different tasks and each of us was specially trained in one area.
The first two weeks I had time to get used to this new area. Therefore, I mostly served drinks to the cus
tomers and cleaned up the desks. After these two weeks, I nearly spent my whole internship at a kind of serve post, the so-called “Küchenpass. This includes the coordination of the meals and the serving to the guests. This work often was impossible to do in a short time, but at the end of the day, it was another great experience. But this wasn’t my whole job. I also was expected to serve drinks and wash the empty glasses (so just the random stuff).
Normally, I worked 8 hours a day (or perhaps sometimes a little bit longer). And furthermore, I had two days off a week. On these two days, I often spent my time with the other interns (in total we were four interns). Mostly, we went swimming at the lake or went for a walk. Sometimes we travelled to Klagenfurt and spent there a whole day.
In my opinion, this was the funniest summer in my present life. You may be wondering why because, as I said, often it was extremely stressful. But what I really liked was sitting together with my colleagues after a stressful day. This was so relaxing and luckily, we did it almost every day. Additionally, I just can say positive things about the working atmosphere. I got along with all of my co-workers very well. We made a lot of jokes and spent really much time together. Consequently, on the one hand, I was sad, when I came back home. On the other hand, I was glad to meet my family and my friends again.
But I will surely spend a part of the following summer holidays at the “Seerose” again and I am really looking forward to it.
If you have also made an internship in the last few holidays, I would be very happy and interested in your thoughts about it. So you are very welcome to write your experiences in the comments. For you guys: I wish you a nice day and see you on my next blog.
(Susanne)