My days after Bogota were calm, I met more people from work and I started to know more about the business and the work I will perform in the future. Now you were asking: why you will perform your job in the future? What happen right now? What is wrong? Well let me explain a little bit. As I told you before I’m a trainee, I don’t perform jobs. Yes, I go to work and I help in the workshop and I go to the field too, but that doesn’t make me an expert and at the same time my boss doesn’t trust on me to go to the field by myself and do the job as a lead Engineer. In order to get that level of expertise you must learn a lot, go to different jobs with different engineers or specialist and of course you need to go to your first school. These are the basic check list that you need to accomplish in order to get your promotion.
That’s why at the beginning I really wanted to spend a lot of time at the base or at the field because I wanted to learn everything and be ready in less than a year to perform my first solo job or as we called it: my break out.
The days pass and it was close to Christmas and New Year. According to our boss I will spend the holidays working in Coca. I had many different emotions because one part of me wanted to be with my family and friends and other part of me wanted to experience what is celebrating Christmas away from home.
My Christmas eve was surrounded with more trainees like me. We were at the “casino” there is a common place that we have in our camp. We were sitting at the living room and one coworker had a guitar. So we spent that night singing, dancing and drinking. I called my family at midnight to wish them a wonderful Christmas day. I knew that my mom was sad because it was my first Christmas away home. The good news is that she was with my brothers and dad, she wasn’t alone.
On Christmas day, some friends arrived at the base, they were working in a big project for months in the middle of the rainforest and finally everything worked out incredible good. They finished the job on December 24th and they were at the base the next day. My best friend at work is a Chinese girl, her Ecuadorian name is Juanita. She and the people from his segment decided to go to celebrate the end of a good work and she invited me. The first stop was in a restaurant where we ate grilled meat and drank beer and some shots of whiskies.
Then we decided to go to a disco, the famous name is: “La Zona” we went by foot and the moment we arrived, we danced and drank more alcohol. It was a great Christmas day, until we couldn’t arrive to sleep at the camp, so we slept in a hotel at Coca town. Some friends were drunk and my best friend and I were taking care of them. The next day we just wake up and immediately went to our camp, the reason was: I need to work; I was in a different segment so my responsibilities were different, so I couldn’t spend my day recovering from the hangover hahaha. I was lucky because I hadn’t a hangover so I could work normally without feeling bad.
After that day, I didn’t go out to party. I was preparing myself to spend my first new year away from home and looking for stuff to do in that day. Something good happen one day before new year eve. My boss told me that I could go home and spend my new year with my family. At beginning I thought it was a joke, but when he told me that I got flight tickets, I was more than happy. Immediately I when to my room and started packing all my clothes. I arrived at home at the night of December 30th. It was crazy but at least I could spend few days with my family and all of them were happy about it.
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