I didn't think I'd update this thing everyday... but so far I have! So this morning I went to the office of the Ministry of Municipalities, which is the biggest of our projects here. There are 4 advisers that are American and Canadian and I spent the day with them learning what they do. It is remarkable to me how much Erbil looks like a mix of Kumasi (infrastructure wise) and Tamale (environment wise), only with Arabic and Kurdish writing everywhere. Lots of concrete, lots of incomplete buildings, lots of brown, lots of structures all close together. However, the roads here are quite nice! Overpasses, underpasses, functioning circles and traffic lights and the driving isn't nearly as crazy as Cairo or even Accra for that matter.
The advisors have 2 cars between the four of them, so they've been driving me around so far. Tomorrow I'm going to the compound for my old company to see what its like there and see more of the city.
My biggest lesson of the day was the lack of efficiency in the Ministry... which is not surprising. I took a tour of the hotel this afternoon and there is a nice pool in the basement, I'm going to try it out tonight, its not really big enough to swim laps in, but if you swim the diagonal without flip turns it will do! :) They also moved my room today so I could have a bigger one, the amenities are the same, just more floor space, now I can do Turbo Jam in my room!
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