Gone with the Wind

As for my webpage project...Instead of coming home with all this information waiting to get entered into the website, I now have a least another month of "waiting" because of "Shume Pune" or much work. We have our yearly catch-up/ projects to be completed by the end of the year and just got 10 computers delivered to the office...Even though only 1 or 2 people have to partake in the setting up of the computers and the catch-up/wrap-up, as an organization we can only do one thing at time outside daily activities. Arg!!!!!!! Maybe I will get more entries into my blog since I have to wait for information. I could just take all the information I need from the Directory Manual, but then few of my co-workers will find any reason or ownership of its use and development....Speaking of computers...one of the computers in the office went down...We are looking at at least a month before it is fixed.
As for the whether here...man it is cold...I have never experienced gusts of wind like this...you can hear a gust coming from hundreds of yards away as it works its ways through buildings, howling loudly and powerfully. As it get to where ever I am, it comes on loud and is sooooo cold. Thank you for the scarves.......Last night I went to bed about 8:00 and watched a movie on my computer. It sometimes is the only place where one can get warm. California gets cold too, but ones house, work and car are places to get warm...here....only the bed. A long winter is upon us. Today, we have an end-of-the-year party. My first month hear we had a party and, I was so excited about experiencing new things. I danced and drank raki with my co-workers and had the energy to make a good impression. Today, while we will have a wonderful meal with good music, I don't feel like working as hard to make an impression...Wow the wind is still howling....
Albanian Window Moment...Scoop...Just prior to leaving one of the Department heads (former Director) and my current Director got into a disagreement...what kind...only know for sure that ice was involved as an after use....Yesterday, I learned that the person is no longer working here and that his company car is now in our driveway...very interesting...I saw the incident about 30 seconds after it happened and had ideas of what went on, and all this reaffirms my assumptions....

Wow, Looking back, it has been well over a month since my last blog...So much has happened, some eventful, most is time filler...
I guess the reason that I did not blog, is that the last few weeks were spent getting ready to leave for the month. I got as much done as possible with the Department website and made a list of things I needed done by my co-worker for the site. I was hoping I they could have them done when I got back. After my preparation for vacation was done, I then headed for Elbasan, the city where we had much of our training at the beginning of the year. There my "vacation started with 5 days of in service training, lots of morning cafe/raki, saw the new Bond Movie and had my language retest...How did I do?....I am no longer required to have a tutor...I said nothing correctly, my sentence structure was challenged BUT...........my instructor/ teacher understood all I said, and was very happy...
After the 5 day inservice activities along with movies at both the movie house and from peoples computers, I then headed off for vacation.
Now my first day back:
My first day back has been filled with getting back into the swing of things, of course coffee, and pizza with my Peace Corps sitemates. One, Leslie, is in Bangkok getting her wisdom teeth pulled...Lucky her...the other 2 are fine now, but one is now sleeping 12-15 hours a day and not feeling to energetic and the other just got over a bad cold....We dragged the Guy that works at the internet cafe along with us for coffee...Poor guy, just had little idea how to handle the free flow of topics discussed by American girls..
I think he enjoyed it however..
As for work, I am here now...I asked my co-workers if they have worked on any of the stuff I gave them...I quickly learned it never got past the first desk...But it was only 3 weeks ago....HUMMMM. Now I have to again get the Director involved so he can light a fire under them ...What I want to do is jump on the desk that it never left and yell but I have to allow things to move at their own pace...arggg...here in Albania. So far I cannot light the fire myself..they complain of having too much work and then spend a large part of the day on the internet in chat or yahoo messager...argggg. I guess it is okay because while I wait I type this stuff.