Sorry for not posting things to the blog lately. I had to bring some work home this week and read up on some reports that the contractor finally delivered to our office.
Life is full of changes and life in Libya is not much different. Turns out that my boss has accepted a new job and will be leaving RW Armstrong later this month. My new Project Manager boss will be coming into town on Sunday of this week so that he can transition into the way things seem to go around here. All I know right now is that he is a Syrian/American citizen. He speaks English, Arabic and French. So he will be able to communicate with just about everyone on the jobsite. He bleeds Black/Gold....not sure what years he went to Purdue.
I am looking forward to meeting him and hopefully we can keep the hotel project on schedule.
Last night I had the opportunity to meet up with a number of British expats that live in Benghazi. I had signed up for an Benghazi expat website and sure enough a guy emailed me and said that his little group of six English teachers go to the Pisa Restaurant every so often and would I like to join them. I said "Sure, that will be great....". Well it turned out that besides the six English teachers, the group included his three adorable children (one boy and two girls and they reminded me of my grandkids), it also included two guys from an engineering company that is doing work in Benghazi. It turns out that they are from a Spanish company and they actually were sub-contractors for my American neighbor that got moved back to Hawaii. Super small world.
So all in all there were twelve of us sitting around the table all speaking English....true some of it was British English, but still it was music to my ears.
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