Made friends with the HR guy sent to town to troubleshoot our issues with hiring and getting visas for our ex-pat employees. It is amazing how bad it can be when you don’t have the right person driving the process. Our current HR guy has no motivation and paperwork apparently doesn’t move. Hopefully this guy will make a difference. We need it.
I had a breakfast meeting with a business man who is the son of a former Ambassador and a cousin of a fellow employee. It is interesting to get the perceptions and thoughts of people who do business in this country. Nothing is straight forward. Everything requires patience a in many cases the right partner. As with the other meetings everyone is helpful with business and personal questions.
After the meeting I took a cab to the Intercontinental hotel and looked at the apartments. One and two bedroom apartments are available there. I’m convinced it’ll take a two bedroom to provide enough space to keep my wife and I from killing each other.
Met up with my friend from HR and went to the City Center mall. I picked up a few things including a “top up” card for my phone and walked most of the mall. It is truly a very large mall. It has multiple Starbucks stores, so you know it is big. Not as big as the malls in Dubai, but impressive non the less.
We went back to the Intercontinental for dinner. The hotel has a nice Mexican restaurant, the food was good and the beer better. Damn it’s expensive though.
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