Tower of London

So excited to finally announce that I got a job! Today it has been 4 weeks since I left home! Didn't think it would take this long that's for sure! But I guess waiting, constantly applying for jobs and going on interviews finally paid off because I am now working at the Tower of London as a General Assistant! 

The job sounds a lot more glamorous than it really is! To be honest I have no idea why the title is called that, but it is. I will be working in the food services department at the tower. And before I get into that I will first explain what the tower basically is. 

Her majesty's royal palace and fortress, known as the Tower of London is a historic castle located directly right across from the river of Thames, in central London. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman conquest of England. A grand palace early in it's history, served as a royal palace. Today the Tower is one of the country's most popular tourist attractions, with the Crown Jewels being the most exciting thing to see at the Tower. During the summer it is visited by more than 10 thousand tourists DAILY! 

So now with me being part of food services my position will change from day to day, the food services include 3 cafés on the Tower grounds, the main restaurant inside, they do a great deal of catering inside the tower banquet hall as well as outside catering. They even cater big parties at Buckingham Palace! So who knows I could be serving shrimp to the queen one of these days! HA doubtful but a girl can dream. 

I start sometime near the end of this week, and the staff at the Tower is massive, they have more than 20 food services staff on daily, and that's on a slow day! So hopefully it's safe to say that I will be meeting a lot more people very shortly! 

Speaking of meeting people, I met a girl in my room here at the hostel, we have become really great friends! Her name is dialla, she's from Paris and has moved to London with her teaching degree in hopes to find a job soon aswell. We went out for drinks and supper in Covent Garden the other night. So good to get out with a friend finally and just socialize away from the hostel. And with the drinks of course. We also went to a steakhouse for supper and I nearly cried when I was eating my steak!! I am 100% lacking meat in my life right now and that supper was so phenomenal it's been 2 days since that supper and I'm still thinking about it! 

I took pictures from the inside of the Tower of London so you can see and get a general idea of where I'm working. It's also located right beside the Tower Bridge.