Tuesday August 8th

Our day started with a meeting with Alan and Linda (production planning). The important lines for the increasing capacity project are finished and we only need 1 or 2 days work here, so that we can do the rest at home in Belgium. Alan was satisfied with our work and he said that we could also participate in the new wet line project for the rest of our time here. With Linda is the communication is harder, because her English is not so good, so we spent some time together (after the meeting) to explain some of the parts better. I think it’s a real challenge for us. As an engineer, you normally find the trouble with explaining the technical things to non-technical people, but here we also get the problem of explaining it in another language ànd explaining it to people that don’t know the language that well. But we learned a lot, and so we adapted the rest of our work to more visual parts and more clear explanations. Hooray for our communication classes! ;)

So the rest of the day we spent finishing our work. We also have two other meetings planned this week: one final meeting with Alan and Linda to round off the first project and the second one on Thursday with a lot of other people to start the new wet line project.

After work we went to the DVD shop and you could never guess which movie we found there… It has some famous Belgian actors in it… Like Sinterklaas and family of Bob de Builder and Nick de Flik ;) Well, let’s make a small game of it. The first one who gives us the name of the DVD (in a comment, a mail doesn’t count, because of the timing) gets it when we get home. :)

Arrived at the apartment, the gas cylinder was changed so we had hot water to do the laundry! Hooray! We only did half of the laundry, because we were so sick of it ;) The rest is for tomorrow…