Day One:The Job Search

See that map? Yeah, there is one square road attached to the highway. We have put a little symbol where we live. Literally, you could walk around the ENTIRE town in 15 minutes. Today, Jon did one day of "work for accommodation" which was really 3.5 hours of work, and then they sent him home. Basically, they are not going to give him any more work, so we either have to pay for the whole apartment (with my measly minimum wage job, which, I am told, will sometimes be unreliable pay if the mountain is closed for a time and which wont cover much more than the rent for the apartment anyways), or figure something else out.

After Jon came back, we went around the entire town asking if anyone needed to hire ANYBODY. Verdict: No one is hiring anymore. There is still some hope up at the ski resort itself, since the people the ski resort hires tend to be flakes who never show up, or who aren't reliable. We just met a guy today who chose to leave this place once he found out how small it was. Another guy was saying that the department he was working at was missing about 4 of the people it hired. Maybe we will be lucky enough to encounter a freshly open spot. Still, everyone has been saying there is no shortage of people looking for work.

The weather's nice here though! It's sunny and cold, but beautiful. Thanks mom for giving Jon the purple long underwear. It is being put to good use. Luckily our apartment is keeping us warm, and the water here is free because it comes straight from the mountain. We are taking showers all the time. We have unlimited internet, but unless we can get an outlet converter soon (from a nearby town, I hope), our laptops will run out of batteries.

Ok, it's off to the bar(s),

Jalissa