Boss

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Okay, if you have read my previous entry entitled "1st working day" that you perhaps know I am working, and even in such a good environment. And now, I'm gonna tell about my boss.

You see the picture above? He is the only man on the right (of course), standing up besides him are other two lady-colleagues. He looks younger in real life and quite nicer. In fact, I have another "big boss" (boss of his, also) but unfortunately I did not have much chance communicating with him so I do not have much thing to say. Anyway, my big boss is really nice but today the protagonist is my Boss. The man I call "Boss" is an English teacher as well as be in charge of international coordinator in my working place. For security reason, I will not publicize his personal profile here because I have not asked him for permission yet. Anyway, the very first eye-catching impression of mine towards him is, somehow, let say a kind of strict and difficultly-talk-to person. It turned out to be biggest mistake I have ever made when thinking of someone since I started working with him, as an assistant I suppose. He was, surprisingly, too nice and too kind. Within several certain words can't help describe every sides of someone, but I think it is just ok to illustrate him by one word: courteous! Yes, he is so courteous by every single act and single speech! He is really enthusiasm to guide me from tiny to big working matters because I'm just a trainee there. You know what trainee means, yes it's me.

He is, can say, a typical Finnish style: easy-going, true-hearted, enthusiasm, responsible, charitable, gentlemen and so much more. Totally a delicate man! Especially, his English is just spontaneous with a great accent, which is very attractive to the listeners. Oh, his English is better than most of the Finns I have ever met, can say I really be impressed in his accent. He is not a native English speaker, Finnish instead, but seems that he is like ambidextrous, to the language extent. He speaks English even more harmonious than speaking Finnish because he speaks in slower and more easy-hearing way. I can learn so much from him, not only the working matters but also the language ones. And you know that's just great!

I forgot to say, he has good sense of humour as well. Yes, it is also typical characteristic according to the Finn. Sometime he says something that I just wanna laught out loud. During the work, we have some little chat sometime and I always smile talking to him. For example, today when I asked him that I should go to the class because the scheduled time had just been reached. He just smiled: "yes you should go now otherwise you will be late". Ha ha, what funny here was that he himself to be the lecturer of the course I was gonna attend! And it mustn't rush when the lecturer was still sitting in front of me. That is fun, isn't? Something like that really makes my working day less heartsick, you know.

Additional, because of being a teacher himself, he is good at his field as well. He teaches good and students like him, feel pleasant in class, I guess. Successful teacher, in general.

Few things about him. I wish I could co-operate with him for long but eventually the internship period will end this summer. I will be missing the time working here whenever I look back.

Thank you, Boss! One of my first two Bosses ever!