Little inconvenience

wednesday August 16

The excitement to start my new job hides pretty good my tired body and mind this morning.
I'm not the only one starting today and I arrived before him, so that automatically makes him the newest one at the job and not me ... I think ;) . His name is Shuki and he is from Israel.
Our teacher for today is called Piret, she's from Estonia. Very nice girl with good teaching skills. To bad she will be leaving for our office in Frankfurt in October. This week our lessons will be about International NOTAM Operation (INO), which is the easy part for me, cause it resembles the work I did in the Air Force a lot.
Just before leaving with one of the three Carlos-es working with us, I printed the papers for my rental car. Carlos called the office the rental-company has at the central station (Atocha) for me, and it should be allright now.
Should be... but of course it was not. The papers contain the rental dates, which in my case was 14-21 August. The man at the desk was kind enough to inform me, that it is not the 14th today but the 16th, which of course I was perfectly aware of, and there was nothing I could say or do to convince him to give me a car. Wrong is wrong, 14 is not 16 .....
Accepting this 'little inconvenience' ,I think, is the only thing you can do in situations like this, which I did after a few minutes when I was in the metro again. This time to Goya station, to check out an appartment.
After the guys showed out some other potential flat-mates, I had a look at the flat and a nice chat with the people living there. I felt good about everything there, and I think they did about me as well, because after 10 minutes one of them called me to tell me they want me to take the room. I have to dicide before the weekend.