Monday, June 21, 2010

Another day another dong ...

The heat wave has broken and it will only get to 35 today instead of the 40's where it was all last week. The breakfast at Horison was great and I headed off to the office too early. Room 702 was still locked when I got there, even though my badge did open its door yesterday after lunch. A colleague rescued me and I worked in an adjacent office until the door opened.

I had a few emails with Naomi regarding hotels in Seoul and she will be sending me some URLs and I will book. I want to be close to her and hope she will not be working Monday so we can hang. I would like to see her school and students so I hope we can fit that in.

I had the best sleep of my trip so far. I watched Portugal thrash PRK last night and felt badly for the PRK supporters. I struggled with the name of the country indicated by "PRK" and then it was obvious ... Democratic People's Republic of Korea aka North Korea.

Every morning at 7:30 then again at 4:30 in the afternoon, Westminster chimes ring in the building indicating the start/end of the work day as well as the turning on/off of the air conditioning. It reminds me of the Fungham's clock I purchased from Shirley Mac in the 70's that died and remained unfix-able 15 years later.

Tonight I have no plans. I will go over to the World Bank to give them some money for my entry visa letter at noon to save the drudgery of the return trip in rush hour. I will probably walk after work and just grab a cab back to Horison when I have had enough of the heat ... what heat! It's only 35 :). I uploaded pictures to Facebook and will do more. They are not very Mac-friendly at work so I will leave my Eeepc here and take the Apple back to the hotel. The work is feverish and today or tomorrow I will contact Mr. Tri and ask his advice on dealing with all the requests for stuff to be done that are flowing in.

I will contact Parminder in Tanzania to see if he will still be around when my Sweet Thing is there in October for some work through the college.

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