A day off? Whatever shall I do?

Working a 40 hour week was hard to adjust to at first, especially since I had never worked more than 20 hours a week. It has been 2 months now and I feel pretty well adjusted to the 40 hr work week of the real adult world. Since I work 5 days a week, I get 2 days a week off. We have a rotating schedule, which means that our days off change every week. It's nice in the sense that once a month we get a weekend off, but it's hard not having the same days off each week or the same schedule each week because it makes it waaaayyy harder to remember what day of the week it is! So this brings me back to the title of my post: what have I been up to on my days off this summer? Well, a wide variety of things!!!

I have been trying to read a lot of books this summer since I have always loved reading but did not often have a lot of spare time to do fun reading while in college. If the day is really nice (and by that I mean insanely humid and partly sunny) I will go to the apartment complex pool and read, or if it is raining (which is basically every day) I will just curl up on the couch with a blanket as if it was winter. Haha. Occasionally I will be a huge nerd and bring my book to work to read during my lunch break! Some of the books that I have been reading:

Water for Elephants: A very touching book about a guy who joins a Depression Era circus and falls in love with a girl from the show, that is told from the perspective of the main character once he is in his 90s. It was a really good story and a quick read. :)



The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: This book has a ton of hype right now and I wanted to see if it was really as good as all the hype. Well, it definitely is! It kind of started out a bit slow and it took me a while to actually get through the first chapter without putting it down, but once I did, I was glued to it! I am currently impatiently waiting for the second book in the series, The Girl who Played with Fire, to arrive in the mail! I ordered it two weeks ago and it still hasn't come!!!



I also spent the last month keeping myself occupied by watching all three seasons of Veronica Mars on Netflix! I was super addicted at first and watched all of season 1 and 2, and half of season 3 really, really quickly, but then I got a bit tired and took a 2 week break before finishing season 3. The show was pretty good. It had a lot of mystery and was the type of show where you say, I have to see what happens next!!! And then you end up watching episodes until 3 am. Haha. Plus, Kristen Bell is just so cute and sassy! haha. I was rather unsatisfied with the series finale, but I suppose that is because the show was canceled too early. Oh well. Now it's time to find a new show to watch!



My apartment has also been super addicted to the Kardashians this summer, and so we have all been watching Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami every week. Hahahaha. We've been all tied up in the saga of Kourtney and Scott. Hahaha. The season finale was last week, but lucky for us, the new season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians starts today! hahaha.



Any suggestions for good shows to watch or good books to read are welcomed!!!!

Other ways I've been occupying my time on my days off include tanning at the pool, working out at the gym (I actually bought a sports bra!), attempting to start doing yoga, and shopping at Target (I bought 2 pairs of super cute sandals last week!)! I also went mini golfing at this super cute Disney mini golf course that was Christmas themed, called Winter Summerland! We can also finally go to the water parks for free, so I think on my next day off I will head over to either Blizzard Beach or Typhoon Lagoon!



Yoav is coming to visit me again next weekend and will be staying for a week at a hotel just around the block from my apartment, so that should be really fun! Especially since we will be going to Miami for the two days I am off!!! :)

As for what I have been doing at work, it's mostly pretty much the same stuff we've been doing the last couple of months. We have been getting to do a bit more stuff with the dolphins, like helping with the research and we are going to start giving the spiels during the dolphin presentations. I did get to give a few cues to the dolphins through the windows one day (!!!) and gave them the signals to open their mouths and smile for the crowds and to swim along the window and wave goodbye!!! :) It was so exciting! I've just been trying to absorb as much knowledge about training as I can, ask important questions and remember all the hand signals! I also found out that once we are more experienced, the interns actually get to use a whistle to bridge the dolphins during training! So I'm on the road to being a trainer! (Hopefully!) :)



Adios amigos!!!!! (And clearly I was really bored to put so much effort into this blog post. haha)