We headed back to Fortaleza for a few days in the office meeting with suppliers and consultants. Pretty tough sitting around a conference room listening to 5 guys spit Portugese at each other waiting on a translation. Funny how 10 minutes of conversation can be boiled down to 10 words. Do you think I'm missing anything?
Thursday the contractor showed up with his 21year old nephew, Junior who has spent a few years in Florida. He is my liason for english to portugese. He doesn't know too many technical terms so far I have taught him, "make it happen @#%@#*! NOW" and "NO *&%#@$ change orders.
Fortaleza is on of thoses big cities that looks great in little snap shots but the big picture is poverty and garbage. Project now matter how grand never get completly finished or cleaned up.
Now it is Friday morning and I am headed back to the beach after meetings with the diver who will locate our ocean water intake. Mr Doby is on his way back to NC and a surprise this morning, Toby decided to go with him. Oh well I'm the only gringo left.
Next week I will meet the topographer(surveyor) and layout the site. That is all for now with a good internet connection.
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