Spain 2006

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

It´s near the end...

Nearly four months I have been now in Spain to work as entertainer. In only 5 days I´ll be already in Austria again and start another part of my life.
The last four weeks here in Benalmadena - where the hotel "Bali" is - were really amazing and different than the entertainment life before. Today in the evening I will do one of the last shows here, which I will really miss. For example sometimes to be alone on the stage in front of a few hundered people to make a playback in a "baby dress costume" with a big lollypop in the hand; or to dress like a cat for the musical "cats"; or to play the role of Sky in "Grease" show; or to make a striptease together with all the other boys of the entertainment team for the "Full Monty" part of the "100 years of cinema" show and so on.
Now I will enjoy the last few days here in Spain where I got known to so many new people from all over the world which is one most beautiful part of the animation life.

Saturday, September 09, 2006

In Málaga

Two weeks ago the chief entertainer at the campsite told me that Animatur is searching for a new workingplace for me because I have the contract till end of september. So he said to me that I just should be prepared if they tell me maybe just a few days before I have to leave, where I will go to. And it was like that...
2 days before I left Torroella di Montgri he told me that I will have to go to the hotel "Bali" in Benalmadena near Málaga. So I left the "El Delfin Verde" after more than two months, flew to Málaga and arrived at the hotel "Bali" where I met my new chief entertainer and all the other entertainers that are working there for already more than 4 months.
Now I´m already here for two weeks and I can say that entertaining at a campsite and in a hotel is really different. First of all the tourists that I have to entertain are sometimes really lazy people that just come to the hotels to relax and they even don´t think about making some sports. I´m right now responsible for the Junior Activities. That means that I make pool games and little games during the day. In the night we have everytime a show - if not from the animation team, than another professional show.
By changing the workplace it is also changing the whole structure of timeplaning that I had before but I think I could integrate good into the group and all the activities we do all day long. So we have a lot of fun here in the hotel "Bali".
Another difference to the campsite is for example the meals we get. At the campsite we were really lucky if the woman at the kitchen gave us a good plate to eat and if somebody didn´t like it that he gave it to the others of the team so that they have enough to eat... Here in the hotel we have a buffet where the entertainment team has the privileg to eat together with the tourists. In the beginning this was really like paradise for me ;)
During the shows it´s sometimes pretty funny - maybe because I am tought all the dances we have to do in the evening at the same day in the morning or in the afternoon. But here it´s really not so strict with all the performances than at the campsite.
Time is passing here so quickly - maybe because currently I experience every day something new. In three weeks I will already fly back to Austria, but till then I will surely enjoy my work here in Spain :)
Let´s entertain them...