Restaurant Mexita

Today I finally managed to have one day off. I feel relieved because I accomplished to find two jobs to earn some money during holidays. It was not easy at all. On Monday I had two trials – in the Mexican restaurant Las Adelitas and in the café Crème de la crème. I don´t like new beginnings in new jobs, so I was not happy about any of them because I was still thinking of La Casa Blu and all the friends I made there. But there is no point looking back, so I had to decide between these two jobs. I liked the atmosphere in the Mexican restaurant, but I did not really speak to the manager about my acceptance or something. The café it was quite good, but after five hours of working there I already realized I could not work there. Since I was a new person there I was allowed to do only ice-cream, but putting ice-cream into the cups or cones for five hours is just crazy. My back hurt so much and I did not find the job interesting. I know that I could make pancakes or coffee later but I preferred being waitress much more than standing behind the bar. That evening I met Juan in Prague. It was again amazing to see someone from Lille! I wanted to show him my favourite bar in Prague – NOD, but unfortunately it was under reconstruction. That´s why we had to go to the closest one – Beer Museum. I don’t like it much because the beer is expensive, and moreover, surroundings are not so nice. He also introduced me to his friend from Argentina. We spent only one hour together because we all were tired. But we managed to climb to the Prague castle anyway.

I went three times to Las Adelitas and I started to feel comfortable there. I met a lot of people who work there and they are all foreigners. It is great that I can practice my English or Spanish and in addition, they are friendlier. The atmosphere is similar as in La Casa Blu, which I like. The selection of food and drink is almost the same, they just had more options and possibilities. I could imagine working there. They have even similar shifts – from morning until 6 and after from 6 until 11 pm, which is perfect for me as I want to work mornings in Provident. In fact, I did not have time to speak to the manager about the shifts, conditions, salary and all serious stuff but I felt so happy when I saw my name in working schedule because now I know that as soon as I am back from Italy I have my two jobs. Hopefully, I can work there often and I will love it. It is funny because I guess I found this restaurant because of my Mexican friends I met in Lille. After talking with them I started to be obsessed with Mexico and I heard so many stories about Mexican food that I am more than happy to work in that restaurant. Moreover, we had one free meal per shift and free drinks – coffee, lemonade and so on. I am even looking forward to work there!

I don´t know why but since I came back to the Czech Republic I can really appreciate being at home. Every time when I have day off I want to go to Hradec to enjoy my mum, sister and my room. I don´t even like being in Prague. It is totally different than before. Maybe because since my arrival I did not relax and I need more time at home. Therefore I came to Hradec just for one day. In the morning I was sleeping long time so we went to the swimming pool with my sister only for a while. I wanted to sunbath my second unburnt part of my body but the sun was hiding so we left early. I promised my mum to cook something. I started to like gnocchi with cream sauce a lot. It is delicious and easy and fast. You just have to boil the water with gnocchi. In the meantime you have to prepare meat (prosciutto), onions and spice. After that you put everything on the pan, you add cream and when the sauce is done you can mix it with gnocchi. For better result you can add small green onion with parmesan on the top of it.

I went again to exercise on Vacutherm and I am already used to it. It is easier than running but I like combining it. So I try to go running twice per week, once on Vacutherm and from September I will go to the gym as well. It is only 30 minutes and I started to turn on and off the heat because it should have better effect when my body is trying to adjust to the temperature. It was my third time there so I am still giving it a chance. Unfortunately, I can not go next week because we will be in Italy. I can´t wait to go there! Our plan is spending the first day in Verona, after one day in the amusement park Gardaland and last days near the lake Lago di Garda. We will be finally together – Marek, Matej, me and Lucy.

Then my mum needed to go to the library to pick up some books. She loves this library. When she has free time she is there. I love it as well but today I realized that as I am always busy I spent a lot of time choosing the books but I don’t even remember when I finished the book, except for the study book. I decided to choose one today and read it during commuting to my job. I considered something in English or French to improve my language by reading. I chose English one. When I saw Angels and Demons I noticed that I already tried to read the book in English but it was too difficult. Therefore, I decided to borrow the double language book! It is perfect because I don´t have to look up the words and I can just look on the second side. I wanted to read something I knew a little bit so I chose The hound of the Baskervilles from Arthur Conan Doyle. I saw it in TV but I remember nothing. I will start reading it tomorrow.

We still had time so we wanted to go to a restaurant for dinner. I remembered that my friend recommended me restaurant Mexita in Hradec Králové because of its amazing Quritto. I have already been to this restaurant many times but I did not find it as special even though it is Italian-Mexican restaurant and I love these two kinds of kitchen. When we came there I was shocked again. The waiter was awful! I know that I repeat it all over again but I don’t know why there is such a bad service in restaurants in Hradec. Maybe I have another point of view since I started working as a waitress but it is unacceptable. When I went to Sport Café it was terrible, last time in Na Hrade the waitress was not kind at all and it was the same here. It is annoying for me as a guest when I enter the restaurant and the service is unpleasant since the beginning. Therefore, after one minute in this restaurant I already had an opinion about it.

Nevertheless, we ordered before mentioned Quritto with chicken meat and two salads because Dan told me that one this meal is good for two people and he was right. I realized that Quritto is just another name for Quesadilla, which is one of my favourite food and when I was working in La Casa Blu I had it almost every day before my shift. That´s why I expected nothing. My mum had Kofola as a drink and it was horrible. I tried it and it was warm. She could not even drink it so she ordered ice for it. When they brought our meal I was nicely surprised. It was really delicious. I preferred Quritto because I love BBQ sauce which was inside and combination of cheese, chicken and lettuce. It was delicious. My mum liked it but I was excited about it more because I love all kinds of tortillas. Even though the food was awesome I would grade this restaurant 7 points out of 10because of bad service, high prices and drinks. I still can´t believe they have a lot of things more expensive than in the restaurants in the city centre in Prague. I could understand if the price corresponded the quality of their service but it was not like that.

To make my exercising useless we decided to have ice-cream after the dinner. We are already annoyed with all kinds of ice-creams with my mum because they make it too sweet everywhere. The only one I fancy is the one in McDonald's. When we entered we were amazed because the place changed a lot since my last visit. They had new terminals for ordering – same ones as abroad. Moreover it looked more like a restaurant than a fast food chain. They even had special tablets for seeing new offers. My mum tried McFlurry with banana and I had the one with Kit Kat. We enjoyed it but as usually after finishing it we started to complain about it because we read how many calories are inside.

It was another girly day with my mum and I enjoyed it much. The thing is that I really need to finish my report about my bachelor thesis so I will finish it during the weekend. Tomorrow is a big day because I will go for the first time to Provident and during the evening there is a Lucie concert!

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