All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom!

That is a quote from my favorite hip-hop song I have heard on FM4 here. I about died.

I'm a bit behind. A bit outdated on here. My apologies.
Will you excuse me if I say that I was nervous to ask to use the internet my first week here? And if I say I've been working 10 hour days?
Both are true. Honest!

But now I'm back, with a little teaser from week one. (A gal's gotta get to bed sometime so she can work the next day!)

I arrived after a nice view of this from my plane's window seat:

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and spent the following day emptying bottles into casks:

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a whole lot of casks:

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then I cleaned the tank room. It was enthralling!

From Hello Austria! My frist day of work.

Please note the pink, Barbie gloves:

From Hello Austria! My frist day of work.

I think my boss gave them to me on purpose. I've been practicing 'I am not a sissy!' in German. It's my favorite phrase and I am waiting for just the right moment to use it... :)

Day Two: The bottle emptying marathon.

From Day 2 of Work

The set up: Bottles to be emptied (back), the un-corker (left), and the wonderful time saving emptying... holder? (right) (I can't believe I'm already loosing English...!)

From Day 2 of Work

From Day 2 of Work

My workout: Insert bottle. Push lever down. Push lever up. Dump bottle into rack and repeat.

Then,when you get sick of bottles, go find a new friend:

From Day 2 of Work

Can you find my friend?

So, my first two days (well, week, actually) had a lot of bottles in them. Bottles, bottles everyhere. Full, empty, broken, dirty, completely sterile and clean... you name it. I got kind of sick of seeing bottles. Then I asked myself what the hell I was doing at a winery if I don't like bottles.

I shook my head. I didn't think that one through.


(OH! But speaking of bathrooms! The toilets here have, like, little shelves in the bowl. It's not just a cave like ours in America. There is a high part and then a little low part where the water drains out. It's really weird. Like your poo is sitting on a shelf so you can examine it better.)