Hey All, I just read last blog...sorry for all the misspellings and grammar errors. Some days are better than others when it comes to writing. I fixed a few but the real damage is done..sorry.
Work Update: After meeting with the director again....he said..."I am ready to read your proposals for the ideas/projects which you feel need doing"...The Good..I get to do stuff... The Bad, he had/has little idea of why and what he wants me to do here.
The deadline is neser, for website information that I asked my coworkers to work on at the last meeting..Where are they are in the process????....not having looked at it once....After I brought it up to my director, he laughed and said, most of the department heads have never seen or care to see a website.....(Arg....why am I asking them their opinion????...Oh yeah.....But this is the one job the director gave me the second week of my stay here). To combat that issue I am trying to now set up a lesson/meeting on the use and importance of a website now in the rest of the world...and the importance and use of them in Albania 5 years from now. I will limit lesson sites to the Department of Agriculture in the States and the one the Country of Albania has set up. Needless to say, the deadline is now been moved a week and I am in the process of twisting my directors arm to remind/force them to at least describe their individual departments...
Hopefully they will use the other sites as a guide and put their on twist on things. (No I will not personally give the meeting..just the subject matter..one of my computers savey coworkers will conduct it....They told us during training that unless the director/mayor/boss has told a worker directly...not in meetings ...there is no expectation of them doing anything outside their daily routine. The same routine designed 17 years ago...just after the fall of Communism. Oh well, it gives me more time for coffee...
Halloween is this weekend...the Peace Corps is having a big party in Elbasan...Info in next blog entry.
My Shqip....somedays I get compliments how good it is...then my sitemates join us or they meet them later...... they then look at me and say...dude...your Shqip sucks...not really those words but that is what I hear.
If someone cares to work with me..we can have a simple conversation for about 45 minutes. If they don't want work hard at understanding me...I cannot understand a word from them and they don't try to piece together my Shqip....we look at eachother ...and go on to the next person.
Other stuff...Days are really short here...Yesterday the power went out at 3:00 in the afternoon and as of 8:00 this morning still out...Cold #@,.#$%,^/..^$$%.,^%$.,#....shower this morning...Lezhe has a brand new desert shop with relaxed, very very nice seating arangements. The deserts are okay but the place is perfect for coffee, tea or a relaxing soda. It is in the basement of a new building and most locals have not seen it yet...very nice place. They thought me shqip was good...So they said...I only spoke for 3 minutes with only about 21 mistakes...but they understood....
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