Every year, tens of thousands of students from different countries participate in the
Work And Travel program.. One of the countries that participated in the program the most is Turkey.. Work And Travel is one of the best opportunities to discover America and to travel all over the country with pleasure.. An average of 3 months out of a total of 3.5 months is spent working.. This section is quite troublesome for those who have not had work and workplace experience until they came to the United States.. It was also a feeling mixed with the pain of a long separation.
I had neither knowledge nor premonition about what awaits us.. The words “you will have a lot of fun, definitely go, have this experience” that I heard only from those who went in the past.
We focused on having fun, actually the “travel” part hidden in work and travel.. As a person who likes to travel, see and explore, I was thinking that I would travel to America and note the places I discovered.. We never thought of the “work” part of the job.. I guess they don’t call us for free, we have to deserve the money we get.
While we can’t see any image of us going to America on our cross-ocean flight, even when we make a transfer in America and reach the final destination, we are in America. He didn’t tell us “this is America”.
I think that night we had to stay at the airport was an experience we had to live.. As obese human animal as possible with Mexicans speaking with Spanish accents around. It turns out that this is the most obese state in America.. By the way, we are in San Antonio, Texas.
Our accommodation center, which we arrived by a taxi in the morning of the compulsory night, turned out to be much better than we expected.. The holiday we expected was starting with its jacuzzi, pool and plenty of social opportunities.. The pool parties we held until the orientation day and the social interactions that took place at home reinforced our holiday.
First Minutes at Work
We are ready, let’s work now” And the places we went to work immediately were exemplary.
My working minutes, which started in the background at the fast food restaurant Cactus Jack, took me away from every moment.. My Jamaican co-workers who ruined me with a strange, incomprehensible and arrogant way of speaking, my beloved top, whose origin is unknown but crumpled behind the french fries with one of his employees, my loving working environment with a lot of tightness and oily smell. The human organism, which is cursed every minute and focuses on understanding what is said and done like a fish out of water, while preparing orders quickly. First working day victims with the same meaningless expressions at the bus stop with the meaningless facial expression in the last minute of the first day. Do you mean the dish washer or the mess cleaner? America does not employ people for free.
The new restaurant I went to after the training they said I had completed at my first day of work was filled with much more interested and friendly working people than the first one.. Although it may seem surprising to work in a place where there is so much interest and concern for someone who has experienced the first shock badly, it is not surprising to see that this is the behavior expected by people.
As a result, what are the expectations, perceptions and wishes? This is a program about. If you say I work like a dog, I don’t mind anything, come on, America is waiting for you.. No, I can’t come, if you say to trouble, nothing you expect is not as they show you.
