8.4.

Hi,

On Friday we went to work on The Point, a shopping mall in Tas-Sliema. We arrived there around nine and left around two. We met the actual guard who works there, Joseph Micallef and he showed us around and told us what we usually does at nine o’clock there, which was putting the escalators on. The he showed us where the office is. The rest of the day we just patrolled. Yeah, sure our purpose was to show that there are security guards working there, but it gets kinda boring to walk around for five hours and you can count only as many cameras as there are.

The day was a bit pointless because we could had actually learnt how to operate there if we were told properly what they do there, where to find things and what to do in different situations. So I wish we would had been told more about the tasks we were supposed to do.

I learned one thing though, and that was that the world doesn’t actually end if you go int the wrong bus. Or don’t know the bus stop. I’ve been kinda terrified of riding a bus, mainly because of those reasons. But if I’ve managed to do it here, I can probably manage it back in Finland. And how is it that here bus drivers actually try to help you, but in Finland they don’t sometimes even bother to answer.

On Monday I’ll be back in the office. On Tuesday I’ll probably be back on The Point. It’s a nice shopping mall though. The shop assistants are friendly, the mall is clean and it isn’t that hard to find anything in the shopping area, because, as said, it’s circles on tip of circles. The staff area is very different, it’s a maze. And it was funny to see that the escalators had a carving ”KONE”. So their internationality wasn’t a fairy tail after all. 

-Mirja