Busy, Busy, Busy

This last week has been really busy for me.

I have been doing a lot of stuff for the ND club here and I will do more in the near future. You see, I am now the Alumni School Coordinator of the club here. Basically, that means I have to organize ND recruiting visits, contact high schools, and contact admitted students. So I had dinner Friday night with some ND admins and the local club. Sunday I have lunch with the head of all ND Asia alumni clubs. Next Saturday I go to another dinner and then at the end of the month 12 more students are coming to Taiwan. The 12 will live pretty close to me so I'll have to have them over for a party.

This week I have been trying to see friends I haven't seen for a long time. Each evening this week was with some different friends and this weekend will be the same. Then after next Wednesday I will likely be booked solid until Sunday.

Oh yeah, there is that work thing I have to deal with too. This week was really really busy. My biggest customer decided that this week that they needed to change ALL of their specs and ride us hard for new prices. The problem is they still aren't sure on their requirements, samples, etc. so it has been blind leading the blind. They are pushing a pipe dream on us is what it really amounts to. On top of that our machine that we use for their orders broke down. We had to send the order out at 4:00PM on Friday. We finished the last part at 3:30PM. There was a long time I thought we could not make it since I was working in the factory for the week and some workers had to work over 24 hrs to get it done.

Since the machine is broken that means my schedule for the next few weeks also gets turned upside down. I planned to go to Hong Kong and Cambodia next week. Now I am here since we have a German engineer coming to work on the machine. That means I translate and take care of him Mon-Wed. Then the week after that I go to Hong Kong and Cambodia. There is then a strong potential I spend the weekend in Bangkok and meet Mon-Tues before coming back to Taiwan.

Of course, these plans are likely to change too.