What a Week

This week was pretty busy. We had two technicians come in and I had to take care of them. That means transport arrangements, hotels, and translating between them and the workers. The good part is that I'm building a better rapport with the production team that I have to work with so that is never a bad thing, one lady even told me in that she couldn't understand what the hell the technician was saying unless I helped translate. The other good thing was that I was able to get a sweet Italian meal with the technicians on the company bill. The downside was that I still had all of my regular work to do and next week I have to order and catalogue several thousand dollars worth of spare parts.

Interesting note: the ride back from the airport with the technician was 30 min and that was the most I talked to a white person in over 2 weeks.

Right now there is a typhoon hitting the island. It has been about to hit for the last three days and now it finally is coming close. The rain seems to come hard for a 30min then fade off then come back. Tonight will be the real test to see how it looks.

The downside to the typhoon is that I was going to go to the beach in Yilan with a coworker this weekend but now that the typhoon is here that trip was cancelled. That means I'm also not sure about the mid-autumn festival bbq I was supposed to have with my language partners tomorrow. But most galling of all is that I planned to go to the bar this weekend and get hammered, but probably not a good idea with the typhoon.

I mentioned the new girl who works at the office now. I think it's kinda strange but whenever i talk to her in Chinese she laughs a ton since she claims she is not used to seeing "Chinese words come from a white face." So that is good. The bad lady news is that I made the mistake of giving my MSN to a chick I met at a bar and now whenever I get on she wants to talk.

I went to the airport this afternoon with my boss to pick up a business partner. He has all of these big plans and big ideas for me. But I stay cautious since he has a tendency to overstate things. But he trusts me and wants to give some of my work to someone else in the company so I was happy to hear that.