27 July
Life has become quite the routine lately, visit the drilling rigs and logging core and go to bed.
Even the range of dishes in the restaurant has become less attractive - but I have only 10 more days here before starting the long trek home.
With the last two holes in progress, and a big backlog of core logging however - I wont be having much spare time.
There was an intense electrical and dust storm last night but i was not quick enough on the draw to capture the lightning bolts on the little digital camera. The morning is clear and hot already and so am expecting another scorcher.
I wonder how my other new friends made out - probably just turned their backs, lay down and closed one set of their eyelids.
One of the interesting things I have heard on morning report that plays at this time of the day as I am waking up - was the interview with the Isralei filmaker about "China Blue". I could completely identify with the descriptions of the factory workers - I see it in the young people who work at the hotel we are in - all are from villages distant from here and look to be quite an ethnic mix - and they work at least 12 hours a day - they are always in the restaurant - they get a rough time from the "maitre chong" and partake in a mandatory daily exercise program, in all it looks like long hard days and I understand they might be paid equivalent of $100 a month.
I also liked his comment about how in remote rural areas the locals looked at him (a white man) as if he had just landed from Mars - I know the feeling. Just smile and wave - hey I am not the Great White Foreign Devil.
Should be the kind of movie that might make you think twice about buying the pair of levis made in China - or shopping at the Warehouse.
Gone to the onion fields
(explain next time)
Al
Life has become quite the routine lately, visit the drilling rigs and logging core and go to bed.
Even the range of dishes in the restaurant has become less attractive - but I have only 10 more days here before starting the long trek home.
With the last two holes in progress, and a big backlog of core logging however - I wont be having much spare time.
There was an intense electrical and dust storm last night but i was not quick enough on the draw to capture the lightning bolts on the little digital camera. The morning is clear and hot already and so am expecting another scorcher.
I wonder how my other new friends made out - probably just turned their backs, lay down and closed one set of their eyelids.
One of the interesting things I have heard on morning report that plays at this time of the day as I am waking up - was the interview with the Isralei filmaker about "China Blue". I could completely identify with the descriptions of the factory workers - I see it in the young people who work at the hotel we are in - all are from villages distant from here and look to be quite an ethnic mix - and they work at least 12 hours a day - they are always in the restaurant - they get a rough time from the "maitre chong" and partake in a mandatory daily exercise program, in all it looks like long hard days and I understand they might be paid equivalent of $100 a month.
I also liked his comment about how in remote rural areas the locals looked at him (a white man) as if he had just landed from Mars - I know the feeling. Just smile and wave - hey I am not the Great White Foreign Devil.
Should be the kind of movie that might make you think twice about buying the pair of levis made in China - or shopping at the Warehouse.
Gone to the onion fields
(explain next time)
Al
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