Up at 0400, wide awake ! , while the rest of Paris sleeps. I killed time before my briefings started at 8:oo AM. Still dark, I walked around the neighborhood. By 6:00 a café had opened up and I got to have that first cup of café aux lait…yummy!! Back in the ACF office I have more briefings with the staff and finally meet the water guy. Dr. Jean Lapegue, who has been with ACF for 10 years and to Afghanistan many times, including being in country right after 911. “You are going to love Afghanistan”, he said, the people are so friendly and genuine. An hour with Jean, and I am overwhelmed with responsibility and what is expected of me….holy crap! I am going to be busy and it will take months to learn the ropes all the while supervising 2 key local Project Managers. He loads me up with dozens of technical documents!! He shows his photographs of the country side….WOW!! Stunning! incredible images and I get goose bumps looking at them all. By 3:00 PM I am finished for the day and very tired. Another day awaits, and then I will catch my plane to Dubai at 10:00 PM.
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Glad to hear you have made it safe and sound to Paris. Keep the notes coming as we are checking daily.
Sounds like quite an adventure so far, as it is said, "getting there is half the fun!" I am not surprised you slept for 12 hours.. Seems to me that you must cross the IDL soon, and will be operating in "tomorrow" before we get through "today". Your blog is great, I'm going to send it on to a couple of people. Love
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