So, that's another weekend DJing here in Basel over.
Nothing really exciting has happened since my last blog. That I remember
Wednesday, arrived here. Was possibly the scariest landing ever. Loads and loads of turbulence during the decent
Went straight to the club. Sat there till god know what time drinking beer, then left and went to the bar 2 down from my apartment, which is open till 10:30 the next day (I love Switzerland lol) I sat there and drank an obscene amount of Jack Daniels
Thursday was spent in bed till late afternoon, at which point I decided to go and sort out my Swiss phone. I went to the phone shop opposite my apartment. It's weird, as you go in there's a computer screen displaying something in German (which I know very very little) and it turns out that you press the screen and take a numbered ticket. This shop runs on a more advanced,but similar idea to all deli counters in supermarkets around the world lol
I stood for 40-45 minutes waiting to be served, at which point I was told I needed I.d. So had to return to my apartment for it then back to the shop. Probably a 3 minute trip... I had to que again! 20 minutes at least this time!
Went over to the club for a few drinks and charge my phone I was gonna use for my Swiss number. Turns out the bastard is sim locked to a network back home in England can't get it unlocked plan of action instead? Get drunk!
Friday I had to do a bit of shopping for cablage and other techy things. Whilst I was in the shop they had a huge basket of old nokia phones for 5 Swiss francs. And it came with 5 francs credit on it lol. Thought "ah, I'll just put the sim card in I bought yesterday, with 20 francs on it"
So I stand in the que for 10 minutes only to be told I need to go to another department to register the phone. Bloody Swiss! Annoyingly the phone was another network to the sim card I bought on Thursday, but I'm so desperate that I decided to buy it anyway. At which point I'm told I can't as "the lady who deals with the sunrise network is not in for another hour!" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
I gave in and decided to go and get myself ready for work
I DJ in the club from 10pm-5am. Long by the standards I'm used to back home, but it's just so much better in every way! Atmosphere, customers, less pissheads, intact NO pissheads! The Swiss may take a while to get warmed to the idea of a party (even when out drinking) but hey, once they do, it's incredible!
Friday, out of all the gigs I've done here was the best night I've had here yet
Saturday? Went out and bought myself an iPad
Then spent the rest of the day in bed mostly.
Popped over to the club about 7pm to get a few things sorted and install a few apps on my iPad. I'm quite annoyed about this bit... There's the tiniest of teeny tiny screws sticking up in the DJ booth. In less than 24 hours, I have a huge scratch on the back of my brand new iPad
Which incidentally isn't as bad as all the scratches on the base of my MacBook Pro :,(,,
Last night some football club here in Switzerland won some kind of cup (I'm not big on English football and know nothing, I know less about European football lol) the team and a lot of fans turned up to the club last night with the cup and partied all night.
Despite hating football, I felt the need to take a photo of a player with the cup lol
But even worse than that, I completely sold out and got my photo taken with 2 of the players and the cup lol
Anyway, you know how I said Friday was the best night I've had here? Scrap that! Saturday was an absolute belter! Truly an amazing night!
But it gets better, not only was I amazed at the party that happened and the fun that was in the club... The managers were amazed as well at the end of the night... Last night was the MOST the bar has taken in a hell of a long time, and without going into figures in detail, we took over FOUR TIMES that which we took on Friday night! I'd like to think I had a part in that, being the DJ
That brings me to Sunday. It's currently 14:05 and I'm sat wrapped up in bed writing this. Annoyingly I don't have the Internet here till later in the week, so I'm going to have to either go across the road to the Irish bar and upload this (plus it would be rude not to have a gorgeous cooked breakfast lol) or pop over to the club I work in and upload it there, downloading loads of stuff as well
Don't think I could manage a full cooked breakfast at the minute though, as annoyingly I ate a huge kebab when I rolled in at 7am this morning. Kebabs here are to die for!
I'm not DJing now till Friday. May be heading over to Lucerne for a few days
Anyway, I truly have waffled on. I'm sorry. I blame the fact that I'm here in Switzerland and don't really get to have full on conversations with people in English lol
If you're still awake, well done!
Speak to you all soon
Nothing really exciting has happened since my last blog. That I remember
Wednesday, arrived here. Was possibly the scariest landing ever. Loads and loads of turbulence during the decent
Went straight to the club. Sat there till god know what time drinking beer, then left and went to the bar 2 down from my apartment, which is open till 10:30 the next day (I love Switzerland lol) I sat there and drank an obscene amount of Jack Daniels
Thursday was spent in bed till late afternoon, at which point I decided to go and sort out my Swiss phone. I went to the phone shop opposite my apartment. It's weird, as you go in there's a computer screen displaying something in German (which I know very very little) and it turns out that you press the screen and take a numbered ticket. This shop runs on a more advanced,but similar idea to all deli counters in supermarkets around the world lol
I stood for 40-45 minutes waiting to be served, at which point I was told I needed I.d. So had to return to my apartment for it then back to the shop. Probably a 3 minute trip... I had to que again! 20 minutes at least this time!
Went over to the club for a few drinks and charge my phone I was gonna use for my Swiss number. Turns out the bastard is sim locked to a network back home in England
can't get it unlocked plan of action instead? Get drunk!
Friday I had to do a bit of shopping for cablage and other techy things. Whilst I was in the shop they had a huge basket of old nokia phones for 5 Swiss francs. And it came with 5 francs credit on it lol. Thought "ah, I'll just put the sim card in I bought yesterday, with 20 francs on it"
So I stand in the que for 10 minutes only to be told I need to go to another department to register the phone. Bloody Swiss! Annoyingly the phone was another network to the sim card I bought on Thursday, but I'm so desperate that I decided to buy it anyway. At which point I'm told I can't as "the lady who deals with the sunrise network is not in for another hour!" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
I gave in and decided to go and get myself ready for work
I DJ in the club from 10pm-5am. Long by the standards I'm used to back home, but it's just so much better in every way! Atmosphere, customers, less pissheads, intact NO pissheads! The Swiss may take a while to get warmed to the idea of a party (even when out drinking) but hey, once they do, it's incredible!
Friday, out of all the gigs I've done here was the best night I've had here yet
Saturday? Went out and bought myself an iPad
Then spent the rest of the day in bed mostly.
Popped over to the club about 7pm to get a few things sorted and install a few apps on my iPad. I'm quite annoyed about this bit... There's the tiniest of teeny tiny screws sticking up in the DJ booth. In less than 24 hours, I have a huge scratch on the back of my brand new iPad
Which incidentally isn't as bad as all the scratches on the base of my MacBook Pro :,(,,
Last night some football club here in Switzerland won some kind of cup (I'm not big on English football and know nothing, I know less about European football lol) the team and a lot of fans turned up to the club last night with the cup and partied all night.
Despite hating football, I felt the need to take a photo of a player with the cup lol
But even worse than that, I completely sold out and got my photo taken with 2 of the players and the cup lol
Anyway, you know how I said Friday was the best night I've had here? Scrap that! Saturday was an absolute belter! Truly an amazing night!
But it gets better, not only was I amazed at the party that happened and the fun that was in the club... The managers were amazed as well at the end of the night... Last night was the MOST the bar has taken in a hell of a long time, and without going into figures in detail, we took over FOUR TIMES that which we took on Friday night! I'd like to think I had a part in that, being the DJ
That brings me to Sunday. It's currently 14:05 and I'm sat wrapped up in bed writing this. Annoyingly I don't have the Internet here till later in the week, so I'm going to have to either go across the road to the Irish bar and upload this (plus it would be rude not to have a gorgeous cooked breakfast lol) or pop over to the club I work in and upload it there, downloading loads of stuff as well
Don't think I could manage a full cooked breakfast at the minute though, as annoyingly I ate a huge kebab when I rolled in at 7am this morning. Kebabs here are to die for!
I'm not DJing now till Friday. May be heading over to Lucerne for a few days
Anyway, I truly have waffled on. I'm sorry. I blame the fact that I'm here in Switzerland and don't really get to have full on conversations with people in English lol
If you're still awake, well done!
Speak to you all soon