It may seem like I am not posting, but I infact have two blog posts
sitting on my laptop in my room, waiting to get mailed out. I just
haven´t had an internet connection in two days, so they are just
sitting there. Hopefully they will get posted tonight.
So, this is my second full day in Hannover. Last night I ran into a
bunch of Germans who are doing some training for some bank. It was
seven girls and two guys, all about my age, so I joined up with them,
and went around Hannover to different bars and clubs. It was
excellent.
The majority of my day yesterday was spent trying to get our shipment
to our stand site. I did not think this would be such a hard thing to
do, but I was wrong. Due to some misscommunication errors and my lack
of German, it took forever to get our boxes. When the truck arrived,
all the other companies had parked their trucks and boxes on our stand
site, so I had to get them all to move. Of course it took forever to
get the cleaning crew to actually clean our stand area from all the
rubbish other people had left there. Lastly, we had to get electricity
to the stand, which I still havent done yet. Had there not been this
worker there from New Zealand, I would have had a much longer and more
difficult day.
But it was fun! It was exciting to be in charge.For those of you from
CMU, imagine midway, when everyone is working on their boothes all the
time. That´s what the fair setup is like. There are lots of loud
tools, boxes and junk being moved, walls being built, people running
around yelling orders, beer, trucks, ladders… the list goes on. The
main difference is the building I am in, is about 10 times the size of
the CMU booth area, and it is building 27 of 30 something. So you can
imagine how massive the fair is. Hopefully I can get some pictures of
the cool technologies people are show casing (only a few stands are
setup, but they are very impressive).
Alright, that´s all for now. I have a tour of hannover starting in one
hour. I finished everything yesterday and now I just have to kill time
until the rest of the group gets here this evening. Then we will be
burning the midnight oil setting up.
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