Second Breakfast, Nasi No More

Four days have passed with no "second breakfast", a new record! Of course that many days without nasi (rice) would not be possible. Really, it should probably be veggies no more since we learned last week that Malaysians consciously "don't really like vegetables". So that explains why they are so sparsely found in restaurants I suppose.

But, back to today's work (March 4, 2013). . . We had our first workshop with the mine staff and it was a big success in my mind. We had 15-20 staff talking with us give or take a those who came and went during the 3 hours. It took some time to get the round table like discussion moving along, but we eventually had the staff asking us how they should respond to some of the common questions they receive; trying out saying things in English, and we even took a demonstration tour through the mine with them. We, as a group, practiced phrases like "watch your head", "any questions before we continue", and "watch your step". As we traveled through the mine they did relax more and asked additional questions and thought about other scenarios. Here's another mine picture I took on the second visit with the team:


Then on our exit we had a photo shoot, lol. They even had us do some "freestyle" which consisted of us looking off in other directions. Hilarious stuff, but they were mostly with their cameras; perhaps my team mate will post some soon I can include. Tomorrow we will return to meet with the other half of the mine staff. Hope it goes just as well. Here is a picture from her twitter feed.


Another new experience at dinner tonight. Malaysian style buffet, a sort of cross between a grill your own Tepanyaki and Chinese Hot Pot, they call it a "Steamboat". Each table comes equipped with it's own propane bottle underneath and one of these on top.

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