Albany Marriott (May 19th, 2009)

On May 19Th we went back to the Marriott for our second week in a row. This day was all about learning how to do the banquet event orders and setting up for a banquet without any help. It was also about cleaning a room in the housekeeping department, by ourselves. Today i was chosen for the housekeeping department. I was with Shante on the 4Th floor with Deseem as our mentor. I was in room number 416. It wasn't too messy, but i had the whole room to clean by myself. Deseem gave me the stuff to clean the bathroom with and gave me new bed linen. She also gave me the vacuum cleaner to do the carpets, and rags to wipe down everything. She walked out of the room and i got started. The first step i had to do was dusted everything in the room like the mirrors, pictures, and the furniture. The next step was i removed the dirty linen from the bed. Step 3, i had to get all the new linen to make the bed with. After doing that i completed the bed the correct way, by asking Deseem that way she likes her beds made. Then for step 5 i cleaned the tub, toilet, sink, around the sink, and the bathroom floor. For dusting all these and wiping down the walls, you have to use a different couple cleaners. Also, the most important thing is do have a different rag for every type of cleaner that you are using. After all that i emptied the garbage and took the dirty linen out of the room. I then vacuumed the floor starting from that far side of the room. As i was doing that i turned the lights off and double checked everything. For this procedure of cleaning the room i had to use different equipment. I used pledge for the wood furniture and industrial strength glass cleaner for the mirror. I needed to use the duster for the walls and mirrors. I had a vacuum for the floors and a floor rag for the bathroom floor. Most importantly, all new linens. After i got done with this, i went down to the Empire room and helped out the other classmates with setting up for a meeting. They had already had the table cloths on the tables, so i helped with setting up the pads and pens, also the glasses for water. We all worked together as a team, and everything got done much easier.