A New Direction

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

The group of people I work with

It has been quite a dynamic group over the last 3 weeks. We have had 8 people leave, and 7 people hired, some are on leave and 70% are contract/temp. That leaves about 3 of 10 or 11 people who have been here for one year or more.

Start with the South Africans:
Heiney
Mandy
Elmer
Barrend
Amanda
Andre
Rhianna (last day today)

There are a lot of south africans here! And they all speak Afrikaans to each other so sometimes, or most of the time, I have no idea what anyone is saying! But they are all very nice people and severely contradict the impression of the first South African I had met.

Americans
Valerie
Me

Canadians
Audrey

Kiwis
Sarah - she loves to take the piss out of people and it is quite funny to watch, and also fun to be on the receiving end. also very clever.

Rwandans
Denise - she speaks french so we have a conversation or two in french sometimes. Also good to counteract the prevalence of Afrikaans.

Also, Zuzana from the Czeck Republic had her last day Friday.

So, there are no Brits, but that is just my dept. I do get to interact with a few of them outside my zone of awareness.

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