This past week has been amazing in a whole lot of ways
Getting over jet lag- i keep waking up at random hours , just because! And then i cant sleep again!
then there's work ...yep we hit the ground running and work , training , living all started as the plane doors spat us out in this foreign land.
In-between all the formalities , there were workshop tours , discussions about the differences and similarities between our employers and trainers and briefing on what to expect of our projects.
We've also had some (failed) attempts at team building. Paintball , bowling(i dont know if this was offficial) and lunch of which we haven't managed one as yet! We wil have to try harder. Last night we made it to a get-together which was not my scene but at least a beginning.
some other unusual things strange to the SA eye:
Snow melts very fast
When we arrived here last week , snow covered almost everything. Over the week , snow turned parking lots into quicksand mud grounds, gutters have been really full even though the rain hasn't come as yet.
so i looked out my window today and would you belive it, it turns out theres a basketball court down in that snow covered area! Not an icicle left in that clearing.
And the fountain to the left of that is even visible now.
Michelle Obama is on a mission to make Americans more health concious. So Feb= "heart month" and in a flash mob style fashion happy shoppers in malls start dancing in unison to get their daily exercise.
anyway , I was hoping to go to New York City this weekend but low and behold there isnt a bus that can get me there in good time to actually expereince the city. I still had a fab day yesterday because Aunty Rookiya and Uncle Goolam (My Grandads brother and sister-in-law) drove from Canada to spend the day with me :-D
how cool is that ??? They're super awesome. Uncle Goolam is just like my late Grandad and Aunty Rookiya has to be the youngest , most active grandma around. Im going to see them next week .
I off course have to concentrate on work and training and ReDineo aswell. But I almost feel like a tourist now...:-)
Getting over jet lag- i keep waking up at random hours , just because! And then i cant sleep again!
then there's work ...yep we hit the ground running and work , training , living all started as the plane doors spat us out in this foreign land.
- Monday morning we pitched up at the training facility and went through the motions of getting settled.
- Tuesday we got an induction
- Wednesday we had lectures
- Thursday we were assigned projects
- Friday we got access cards
In-between all the formalities , there were workshop tours , discussions about the differences and similarities between our employers and trainers and briefing on what to expect of our projects.
We've also had some (failed) attempts at team building. Paintball , bowling(i dont know if this was offficial) and lunch of which we haven't managed one as yet! We wil have to try harder. Last night we made it to a get-together which was not my scene but at least a beginning.
some other unusual things strange to the SA eye:
Snow melts very fast
When we arrived here last week , snow covered almost everything. Over the week , snow turned parking lots into quicksand mud grounds, gutters have been really full even though the rain hasn't come as yet.
so i looked out my window today and would you belive it, it turns out theres a basketball court down in that snow covered area! Not an icicle left in that clearing.
And the fountain to the left of that is even visible now.
This train locomotive in a workshop is what I call a Monster Loco. The SA loco's below can fit quite comfortably inside this Monster with space for a person to pass. I was completely wowed with the size of these. SA is definitely the petit kind.
finally (only because im running outr of pictures) Pennsylvania is essentially landlocked but I found the strangest vehicle out here...
uhuh, thats a ship. These guys build ships in the local ship yard!I dont think this pic does justice to the size of this ship...its ENORMOUS. how they get it to sea is beyond me!
anyway , I was hoping to go to New York City this weekend but low and behold there isnt a bus that can get me there in good time to actually expereince the city. I still had a fab day yesterday because Aunty Rookiya and Uncle Goolam (My Grandads brother and sister-in-law) drove from Canada to spend the day with me :-D
how cool is that ??? They're super awesome. Uncle Goolam is just like my late Grandad and Aunty Rookiya has to be the youngest , most active grandma around. Im going to see them next week .
I off course have to concentrate on work and training and ReDineo aswell. But I almost feel like a tourist now...:-)
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