Well
I am not going to Bart's today. I am not
on the list. How disappointing,
especially after what I as told the previous day. But I am assured that I am on the list for
tomorrow.
The
food in here is not bad and the staff are mostly very nice. I strike up a few conversations with the
cleaner, who was once an economist working for a Bulgarian factory making
Kalashnikovs. He bemoans the fact that his three children are all settled, with
families, in different EU countries and he wishes that they could all be
together back home. But he is also an
economic migrant and from a management Job in industry to hospital cleaner is a
long way (it is likely that in communist times his title of economist actually
meant planner, responsible for preparing plans that met the state's
objectives. If I a right, professional
knowledge may be weak on markets and competition).
The
other chatty person is one of the student nurses, also from Eastern
Europe. She is clearly intelligent and
studies hard though she wears not very complimentary about the academic part of
her training programme, which is essentially self-study. I think they have 5 hours a week contact
time. Still, she gets lots of on-the-job
training because she asks for it and is prepared to ten responsibility. She will get on.
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