I liked Kiev and I am looking forward to go there Feb 1st. People in the office are young and driven. My department exists on org chart only. That means I have a luxury of creating my own team. So far I always “inherited” department and in the beginning there was always a period of adjustments on both side.
I did not have any time for sightseeing in Kiev but I saw a church almost every hundred meters. Never saw a city with so many churches.
From Kiev I flew to Amsterdam. I had three hours of sunshine in one entire week.
I enjoyed strolling canals. It's so nice to be in a city with a history. It's such a treat to walk along 16th century houses.
There were lots of Russian tourist in the city. Ten years ago one could hear mostly English and Spanish.This time second most heard language on the street was russian. Well - Peter the Great liked A'dam too. The story goes lovely A'dam inspired Peter the Great to build St. Petersburg.
I saw apartment I bought in August for a first time. It’s good I like it. It looked bright and light even on a sad rainy day - and these prevail in the Netherlands. Cees - the painter did marvelous job painting. With Uri and Ana Maria I made some small plans about flat arrangements.
At HO spent four days in meetings. Still managed to see some friends which was great.
Back in Seoul started moving arrangements. In the office except for lots of work I had some things with the office restroom. On Monday I had "ajuma" accident. I pushed slightly opened doors and there was a cleaning ajuma sitting with her pants down holding a phone in the hand. I turned but the woman went after me. I have no idea if she was fast enough to put pants up. I run back to my office. Closed my office door. Urge to go to the restroom disappeared for some time.
Than on Wednesday in the restroom I found a Korean magazine. There was an article on beauty with "10 reason's I am beautiful". I could not resist so I took a page from the magazine and scanned it.
It reflects Korean state of mind. I had friends for dinner and we just laughed as we have no chance being beautiful if we are not Korean.
Had Year end party on Friday evening. It was my first and last year end party in Korea. Everyone told me it's the best one. So I choose well.
You can also see a funny Season's sculpture which is in front of my office building. I have no idea what the sculpture is about. Perhaps in land of Samsung robots bring presents. At least the sculpture is different from usual Xmas trees, deer’s, etc...
The major event last week was the oil spill. How a barge got loose and hit the tanker still puzzles me. On some Korean blogs they are pointing out a Samsung conspiracy theory which is that Samsung caused intentionally this oil spill in order to divert attention from a scandal about bribing prosecutors. Sounds unbelievable but this is what Koreans write on their blogs. For photos how the spill is cleaned check
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2007/dec/10/oilspills.wildlife?picture=331510224
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