...a really comfortable flight over from Houston to Amsterdam - funny thing about the US, they make a huge fuss about you getting in to the country, but make it exceptionally easy to leave...maybe not so funny really...
5 days after my flight, i'm back in my Dutch groove...last 2 days i've slept in til about 11 - combination of the jet lag and a hectic few weeks of joining the project, getting up to speed with what's going on, delivering training and travelling a quarter of the way round the world...it all caught up with me this weekend...
i went up to a really cool courtyard cafe for coffee yesterday...there were these 2 blokes at the end of my street (Nieuwe Molstraat), both coughing heaps...one moreso than the other, they were passing a huge joint between themselves - middle of a busy street, round midday on a Saturday...up in Amsterdam on Friday night was the same deal - someone pulls out a joint and fires it up. Amsterdam was pumping - it is Pride weekend and the city was really warming up to it...it was my first night out in Amsterdam, definitely not the last - i jumped on the train at Den Haag Holland Spoor, and, half an hour later I was at Schiphol, to meet a friend of a friend I'd made in Mysore...then another train to wander round the city...back home by midnight...then a couple of massive sleep ins...and now...Sunday coffee, followed by some Sunday arvo yoga...then work looks a lot slower for the next couple of weeks...
i'm 1 month into a 3 month contract...no indication yet as to if the contract will be extended - everyone's way too busy to try to meet the go live date = 1 September, it's now August 2, and the project's launch has been delayed twice...when they're spending US$1 million/ day on this thing, delays are quite costly...so busy and stressful...
given all that, i'm not sure where i'll be next, tho the FOF i met in Amsterdam said Diwali is on in India in October...and our German manager is suggesting Oktoberfest as a celebration for getting through our work...could be a very good couple of months :)
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