Exactly, guys! In late March and April, I probably won't appear much in the forum, as my company is finally (after 2 years back at the headquarters in Milan) sending me to work for 2 years for our affiliate in Luanda, Angola.
I'll be the Legal and Commercial manager, as I was in Cairo, but this time with the "label", not as a replacement.
Needless to say, although conscious of the difficulty of the place, I'm enormously excited, for the life experience, for the work experience, for the new language (Portuguese) that I'm going to learn, and, last but not least, for the fantastic holidays you can have there (Namibia, Botswana,Zambia,Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Moçambique, South Africa....).
Anyway, of course I'll have my office and my computer, so, after a short while, I'll be on line again!
If I receive in time the visa (which means tomorrow), I'll have an explorative trip there for five days (2-7 March), so in 10 days time I'll be able to give you a first impression about the place. That will be definitely different from Cairo......Then, the final moving, is set for 29-30 March.
[Edited on 28-2-08 by manlio27]
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Well done, by the way.
[Edited on 4-3-08 by viges]
just do not forget us!
Forza!
I'll be back to the forum as soon as I get the computer, and update you with my first impressions of the country.
Seguro,RJ, vamos a poder reemplaçar o forum espanhol (ou o forum italiano....) com um forum portugues e practicamos juntos!
Ate logooooooo!
guys, been here for about 10 days now, and have had the chance to go around the city. Very chaotic, with a traffic that makes even Cairo sound quiet, but I have to say it is not bad. There is poorness, of course, but you can see a lot of activity starting (new buildings, new foreign investors coming, banks opening....)and it is a real city, with squares, some historical building, some gardens, a beautiful view over the bay, and lovely beaches (particular not to be neglected, in Angola there is the "Brazilian" beachware fashion, so you can see lots of beautiful girls wearing string tangas....which makes the place even more pleasant!).
There is some safety issue, but you just have to be careful, Johannesburg, for what I could see, is much worse.
As for the work, it is pretty exciting!
Soon I hope to be able to tell you something also about the inland.....meanwhile, I can confirm my Africa is not treating me bad so far!
London was fantastic, but the call of adventure is too strong.
But I'll be back to london in the future, hopefully speaking Russian.
I like adventure and new experiences as much as the next man, but I don't fancy that!
Stay safe, and stay warm! Oh, and stay out of the way of.........well just about everyone there. Talk about wild west (er, east), I hear you can get your Kalishnikov in designer colours there.