Day 2

I slept better than expected night one. There is, unfortunately, a gas station next to my apartment building (much nicer than the Drop In Store), so it was a little louder than I would have liked a little later than I would have liked. Of course, that is with the window open because I don't have my a/c unit yet. It's much cooler tonight and will be for the next few nights so that's good. I'm actually a little chilly right now with all the windows open. Sweet.

My electric toothbrush did NOT charge up using the 110v converter, so I plugged it right in to the wall outlet tonight. Guess we'll see if it gets fried. My little personal blender worked beautifully so that's a bonus.

First day as a "real" Brazilian employee... we'll give it a shrug and a "meh." I understood a little bit of what was said in an inventory meeting, and a couple of coworkers gave me a synopsis after. The finance office here is not exactly glamorous and the furniture could use some rearranging - but I'll just be keeping my nose in my computer and not worrying about these minor details! Pics below. For lunch at the plant cafeteria, I skipped the beans and rice/rice and beans and had pumpkin soup (sopa de abóbora), some kind of cabbage salad, something that is apparently Brazilian and sounded like "pancake" but reminded me of a burrito, and a big slice of fresh pineapple. No canned fruit in these here parts, people - good stuff. Dug around in inventory (inventario) a bit and see that I'm going to have to keep reminding myself not to go down bunny trails. A million things to fix, but have to start with the biggies.

Noticed that there is actually a sign in the bathroom at the plant saying to throw away TP, guess I didn't really see it when I was in there before because I didn't know what the hell it was talking about. Am I going to be able to discuss potty business every day on here? Only time will tell I suppose.

If today is any indication most of my posts will be on the weekend - weekdays are going to be eat, work, sleep, repeat. Boring...

So far so good, except as I told Stephen tonight as he dropped me off, it's effing depressing to be here by myself. Going to keep on appreciating the experience and try not to get bogged down in all that business!

xoxo

My desk is the sad one with the Amazon box on it (brought from home, they don't deliver in Brazil... home of the Amazon). It was facing Walter when I got there, with my back to everyone else, so I promptly turned it.

My desk is just off camera to the left. The room is just a long row of desks. The crazy lady is the HR manager who doesn't speak a lick of English. I was a little proud of myself today, I talked to her a little in Portuguese.