Dany wakes me up again. i rush into work to get there early for field work. i say goodbye to dany and wish her a safe trip. i'm all alone now!!!
i go out with Alwin from the geomonitoring group to do some pile integriy testing (PIT). he has an incredible stutter that is clearly excaserbated by his efforts to speak english. i feel so bad. i'm thankful at how easy i have it to talk. he would spit and strain in an effort to get the words out. mostly "S", "F" and "V" were tough for him. i tried to avoid conversation with those words. it was impossible!! other than the stutter, he was so nice and seemed like a really hard worker and very diligent. i enjoyed spending the morning with him.
the site has 3 pile driving rigs running at the same time. i can tell safety isnt #1 priority over here hahah. the pile driving workers tell me i'm the first women they've ever seen in the field. apparently female field engineers etc. are rare here. i would say its more like 15% back in the US. We tested about 100 piles see pics below!!
lunch - some sort of egg sandwhich, open face, eaten with a knife and fork. not too bad. some sort of veggie soup. also not too bad. good lunch today.
worked on some pile design for my co-worker Annemeik for the afternoon and chatted with my officemate Robin. he's really cool and very knowledgable. he showed me pics of a project he worked on where a container ship overturned and he worked on getting it right side up. another project with a road on piles and a geogrid reinforced embankment. very cool. he's helped me quite a bit with the dutch codes and translating and i'm very grateful to him. and elisabet. i brought these little chocolate eggs with figurines inside hahahah! a dutch treat. they laughed and i think they liked them. elisabet's egg had Buggs Bunney and robin's egg had the Tazmanian Devil riding a skatboard.
the guy i met on the train yesterday emailed me. adorable broken english. see text below.
Hi Jamie, In the first time nice to meet you yesterday on the train station. (by the way a strange place to meet American ladies).Hope you are fine today and your weekend was o.k. The time was yesterday I think too short, maybe we can now tell / email with more information...So you are in The Netherlands till February is that right? and that time you will life in Delft?For what kind of project are you in The Netherlands? And is the another girl a colleague or a friend of you? So I believe you want to explore the city Delft (country The Netherlands) with also the nightlife in the weekends? So this was the first maybe to small email but I hope to hear from you soon again! Best regards, Michel
haha! spent most of the night catching up on emails and blogging. sent my little god daughter a bday present. a book on how to tell time and a kid's fist watch. pink. i hope she likes it!! ate some grapes and a mini pizza for dinner. no desire to cook. oh time for bed.
i go out with Alwin from the geomonitoring group to do some pile integriy testing (PIT). he has an incredible stutter that is clearly excaserbated by his efforts to speak english. i feel so bad. i'm thankful at how easy i have it to talk. he would spit and strain in an effort to get the words out. mostly "S", "F" and "V" were tough for him. i tried to avoid conversation with those words. it was impossible!! other than the stutter, he was so nice and seemed like a really hard worker and very diligent. i enjoyed spending the morning with him.
the site has 3 pile driving rigs running at the same time. i can tell safety isnt #1 priority over here hahah. the pile driving workers tell me i'm the first women they've ever seen in the field. apparently female field engineers etc. are rare here. i would say its more like 15% back in the US. We tested about 100 piles see pics below!!
lunch - some sort of egg sandwhich, open face, eaten with a knife and fork. not too bad. some sort of veggie soup. also not too bad. good lunch today.
worked on some pile design for my co-worker Annemeik for the afternoon and chatted with my officemate Robin. he's really cool and very knowledgable. he showed me pics of a project he worked on where a container ship overturned and he worked on getting it right side up. another project with a road on piles and a geogrid reinforced embankment. very cool. he's helped me quite a bit with the dutch codes and translating and i'm very grateful to him. and elisabet. i brought these little chocolate eggs with figurines inside hahahah! a dutch treat. they laughed and i think they liked them. elisabet's egg had Buggs Bunney and robin's egg had the Tazmanian Devil riding a skatboard.
the guy i met on the train yesterday emailed me. adorable broken english. see text below.
Hi Jamie, In the first time nice to meet you yesterday on the train station. (by the way a strange place to meet American ladies).Hope you are fine today and your weekend was o.k. The time was yesterday I think too short, maybe we can now tell / email with more information...So you are in The Netherlands till February is that right? and that time you will life in Delft?For what kind of project are you in The Netherlands? And is the another girl a colleague or a friend of you? So I believe you want to explore the city Delft (country The Netherlands) with also the nightlife in the weekends? So this was the first maybe to small email but I hope to hear from you soon again! Best regards, Michel
haha! spent most of the night catching up on emails and blogging. sent my little god daughter a bday present. a book on how to tell time and a kid's fist watch. pink. i hope she likes it!! ate some grapes and a mini pizza for dinner. no desire to cook. oh time for bed.
1 comment:
ummm...egg something sandwich...
anyhow, glad to hear you're the first woman that those pile driver workers have seen in the field! way to represent! :)
be safe and know that joe and i are really enjoying reading your blog. it's almost like you're here telling it to us in person.
well...back to work! :)
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