Business Travel

Everybody here talks in their own language full of acronyms and jargon all the time.

I met a man today who worked at an unfortunate centre within the Food and Agriculture organisation called

OFAL

Hmmmm

Otherwise, great weekend, but blisteringly hot.

Can I really work the miracles they seem to expect of me?

At the end of the my time here I get the feeling I'm either going to have gained a lot of amazing positive experience and knowledge and ability or I'm going to be a complete flop.

But I'll enjoy it regardless!

The FAO building is vast and I keep getting lost. I have, however, found the quickest route from my office (on the 7th floor of C wing) to the cafeteria (on the 8th floor), which has great but cheap food and a good view of the city.

Getting lost in the building doesn't worry me to much because all the corridors are lined with heartening pictures of grains and fields and poor people eating. A less heartening thing about the corridor is all the intimidatingly closed doors, behind which there may or may not be friendly people sat in air conditioned rooms.

So my kunundrum is whether to leave my door open and welcome would-be callers to build my personal network, or whether to close my door and save the energy of my air conditioner.

Do you like them?

The duck and I in Michael Angelo's famous square

St Peters Basillica

Roman Forum

The Duck imagining what it was like in the Roman Forum as Marc Anthony gave his famous speech about Brutus being an honourable man

I hadn't realised that Romulus and Remus from Star Trek were based on these ancient Roman legends. The twins who were suckled by a She-Wolf went on to found Rome

My flat

5 minute walk from my house

Throw a coin over your shoulder into the fountain and you'll return to Rome. Throw two and you'll return and fall in Love. Throw three and you'll return, fall in love and get married

Hi Guys.

This is the start of my new blog.
I'm about to go off to Rome on Wednesday to start working with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation for a year.

Pretty excited
Also nervous about the new job thing...

I'll be updating this new blog every now and then

Enjoy it

Dave