I started searching for hairdressers in Berlin on the Internet and choose an area, so I wouldn’t have to walk through all of Berlin. I found twenty places and made a map to locate the hairdressers, so I didn’t have to search for them, while I was there, because I knew I didn’t have much time to deliver the applications. Afterwards I started writing my applications in German. I finished my application and CV, and had translated my certificate to German and was ready to go to Berlin and search for apprenticeship as a hairdresser.
At Friday, January 8. I went with my aunt on a bus trip to Berlin, it was an almost 10 hour long drive and we were ready to go to sleep at the moment we had checked in at the hotel.
The next morning we were going to see a museum, and grabbed a bite of food on the way. We hadn’t expected that the museum was a waist of time, so when the clock rounded 4, we were in a hurry and went into the place where I was going to search for apprenticeship. We went into a coffee bar and got a drink, so I could loose my nerves and write the addresses on the applications. And then we went out to find the hairdressers, but it wasn’t that easy as we had expected, even though we had a map, it was very difficult to find them. We asked for help but didn’t get much, but finally we found one of them and went inside. I tried to speak my best German and they understood what I was saying, but when they talked to me, I didn’t understand that much because they were talking so fast, so I asked them to talk a little slower and they decided to speak English with me. They told me that I had to learn more German, because it was the only language they talked at the school and in the salon, I knew that and I had already decided to learn more German, because all I had learned was just basic. They told me they would give me a call and I went out of there happily. My aunt and I found another hairdresser where I went in, but they told me they couldn’t have me because they had so many people at the time, and showed me to another salon in the same company and I went in there, and they told me they would call me too. When we got out of there, was the clock about 7 and we thought that the most hairdresser had closed or were about to, so we went into a shopping center to look and shop.
At Sunday, January 10. We had finished the weekend and were going back home.
Experienced and written by: Maria Svensson
January 2010