First day at work (HolcimVN)

Saturday, May 10th,



My boss and "buddy", Tran Thi My Hanh, or Hanh, from work came to pick me up from the hotel for my first day of work. She is so funny! She looks around really fast and is a friendly young, little lady! She told me "ok, hi" "are you Ki"? We quickly looked at a map of the roads in the city as she wanted to find her way to work. It was 8:30 so rush hour traffic was over. BELIEVE me, motor bike wheel to motor bike wheel over here! She handed me a helmet and we where on the street in no time! She is so nice, asking me questions as we weeved through all the traffic, darting in and out and sometimes slamming on the breaks! She seemed like such a lo-key women. Hahaha. I guess not! I was introduced to all human resources employees, the director, the leadleaders, and all the other specialists! Very attentive and wonderful people. They took me around, but then decided that today was not a good day for me. I was tired and they would finish on monday. I will be traveling with my team on monday to one of the cement plants in the country. They informed me they would take me too all the plants (4) in the country soon enough. The whole office at one point will move to another location they are building right now! Also, the office is wonderful! I am not qualified for this, but im here! The breakfast on top of the hotel was also delicious! Hanh picked me up with her boyfriend at seven after I slept for a couple hours. We had dinner somewhere. It was behind a building, you can't see it from the road, but hundreds of people were there. The food was awesome! Then we exchanged money, got some coffee, and later bought a alarm clock. But I can't figure it out! I think it;s a dud. The power in the store went out while we were paying for it, no one was surprised but me!