(International Work Experience)

Mallorca, Balearic Island,

Gauthier BRANCHE
MME 2
Summary

* Introduction

I. Presentation * Mallorca * Roc Hotel

II. Experience * My jobs 1. Barman/Waiter 2. Waiter 3. Cash machine responsible

* What I did when I didn’t work

III. Rapport d’étonnement

* Cultural differences between France and Spain 1) At work 2) Outside (in the street or other)

* Conclusion

Introduction
For my school I had to do a travel in an other country in the goal to have an experience of work at the stranger.
To find my summer job, I’d ask to an organism who’s calling “Inter Séjour”. With the help of this organism I found a job in an hotel in Mallorca where I will be fed accommodated and pay.
It was a four stars hotel of the chaine “ROC Hotel”.
I am arrived in the airport of Palma the 19 june (it was a Saturday), and did knowledge with the director of the hotel who explained me what job I will do, my schedules and when will be my day-off. And I got my uniform for the work.
After that some French student like me who were there for the same reasons than me shew me where I’ll live for the next three months.
I started to work the Tuesday of the next week, so during my two free days, I have taken the time to discover a little the city of Palma (the capital) and to familiarize me with the neighbourhoods d' where I lived.

I. Presentation

* Mallorca
Mallorca is the biggest island of the Balearic Island.
She is situated in the Mediterranean Sea. There are 814 275 inhabitants.
The first resource of this island is the tourism, indeed 70% of its PIB come from the tourism.
There are a lot of strangers who go in Mallorca for the holidays or to live. 7% of the population is from Germany.
The tourist influx became more varied (origins(background) and lifestyles), with a growing part of Europeans' immigration of the North coming to settle down permanently.