From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

This sounds great - best of luck with the new job and everything. As for
communicating, I've noted that when you're in a foreign country, if you
show you've gone through the effort of learning their language even a bit,
communicating gets a whole lot easier and people generally become very
helpful. With the exception of the French of course 


Antti Kurenniemi

"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
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> Greetings from Azerbaijan.  Trip overall went very good.  BMED from London
> to Baku was much better in almost every way from the United flight from
> Washington DC to London.  Spending time now learning the faces and jobs of
> all the people I will work with here.  Have 3 receptions in the next 4
> days to get acquainted.  Living in the Hyatt for now and hoping to move
> into the house by June 5th.   We went through the house today and it looks
> very nice.  Neighborhood is pretty good and feels safe. Within walking
> distance many shops and a few restaurants.
>
> Internet in thehotel is pretty slow and expensive so only on every few
> days. Looks like I will be able to get DSL in the house, but won't know
> until we get a regular phone line there first.
>
> From a couple days at work this is going to be an interesting job at a
> very interesting time in the region.  For now taking some time to get used
> to speaking Russian.  Truthfully much easier to just get your point across
> then the formal conversations that I did in school.  Probably supposed to
> be that way.  I can see my grammar getting much worse, but my
> communication skill getting much better.
>
>
> George

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