Tr-Tr-Tr-Train of Fools
The keen readers of this blog will have noticed that I didn’t update it yesterday. This is due to me going on a team building day with my new employers. We took the Napa Wine Train up the Napa Valley. For those that don’t know Napa Valley is where a lot of Californian wine is grown and they have around 300 vineyards in the space of about 10 miles, and most of them have free wine tasting (although more and more are now starting to charge small fees). I have been there a couple of times with Jen, but the downside is someone has to drive. Well not yesterday, the 13 of us in my department went to Napa and then boarded the wine train. We were given lunch and wine and all of this on an old style steam train. There was also a wine tasting carriage where you could taste 4 wines (although it did cost $5).
The idea was to speak to people in the team that you didn’t know that well, and as I have only just joined that meant I could talk to everyone. One girl asked me if we celebrated 4th of July in the UK, and seemed shocked when the answer was no. I am not entirely sure that she had thought the question through properly. Why would we in the UK celebrate 4th of July, the day when America won it’s independence from the UK. If we celebrated every time another country had gained it’s independence from the UK then we would have about 5 days of work left. I was also asked loads of questions about the Royal family and I had to bite my tongue or else I would have blurted out that the Royal Family are nothing but parasites who live of the tax payers money and provide no benefit to the UK whatsoever. In my experience Americans are more interested in the Royal Family then we Brits and I think this has something to do with them not having them. It must seem romantic to have castles and palaces as well as a Royal family, when as a country you do not have anything similar to that. Although celebrities are the closest people come in the US to the same level of attention that Royal families have, and the boom in sales of OK and Hello would show that the British feel similar to celebrities as Americans do to our Royal Family.
The idea was to speak to people in the team that you didn’t know that well, and as I have only just joined that meant I could talk to everyone. One girl asked me if we celebrated 4th of July in the UK, and seemed shocked when the answer was no. I am not entirely sure that she had thought the question through properly. Why would we in the UK celebrate 4th of July, the day when America won it’s independence from the UK. If we celebrated every time another country had gained it’s independence from the UK then we would have about 5 days of work left. I was also asked loads of questions about the Royal family and I had to bite my tongue or else I would have blurted out that the Royal Family are nothing but parasites who live of the tax payers money and provide no benefit to the UK whatsoever. In my experience Americans are more interested in the Royal Family then we Brits and I think this has something to do with them not having them. It must seem romantic to have castles and palaces as well as a Royal family, when as a country you do not have anything similar to that. Although celebrities are the closest people come in the US to the same level of attention that Royal families have, and the boom in sales of OK and Hello would show that the British feel similar to celebrities as Americans do to our Royal Family.
posted by Nick at 9:32 AM
2 Comments:
My kind of work outing!
Just had to tell you - we've been talking about unfortunate names in the office and one of my colleagues was at school with a Rupert Burr! Thought you might appreciate!
The next trip I think is going to be to the local Budweiser brewery.
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