Thursday August 10th

Today we had a new Belgian visitor, Jan, who will work on the wet line project (our new project). He will stay here until August 18^th, so we will be working together for some time. In the morning we started with following a meeting about the new line, we studied some drawings and so on. It looks like this project is going to be a lot more technical then the first one, but we can only welcome that. After the meeting we went to a Japanese restaurant at Clifford. Present where: Jan, Alan, Jenny (the business translator who just graduated), Gary (one of the subcontractors for this project, his company will install the new line, he’s Jenny’s boss), and then a mechanical engineer who’s name I forgot and also the PLC programmer who’s name I also forgot. So we had a good meal, Andries made a mess of his shirt (and we just did the laundry…) and we returned happy and satisfied to the office. In the afternoon I spend some time finishing the capacity project, while Andries followed a new meeting. In the late afternoon we went down to production, where some major problems with the installation of the line have to be solved. We’ll see how that works out tomorrow… We also went on the roof of the building, to see the cooling towers and from that roof we had also a great view over the surrounding. We could see Clifford from up there :)

So we had a really busy day actually and it wasn’t over yet. In the evening we invited Rocky and his girlfriend and her sister over to watch the Alzheimer Case DVD we bought. Because we didn’t have any beer in the apartment, Andries rushed back to the supermarket to get some TsingTao bottles. And we already had tea and hot water, so no mistakes this time. We watched the movie with Chinese speaking and French subtitles, so that both nationalities could follow. The evening was nice, the movie was very good and the beer bottles were finished, so it was time to close our eyes…