In praise of training course delegates.
There are some characteristics of people that are the same the world over. I'm training this week in Saudi Arabia (so my week is Sunday to Wednesday) and - I admit - I was in some nervousness of my first trip to the middle east. But - what lovely, personable people and a great bunch of keen Perl learners. We often think we live in a charmed world of with the people we train, and it extends to Dharan too.
Even the sounds here are like home - the sound of aircraft flying close overhead from time to time, and just like at home the room can get very hot in summer, which it is. But not everything's identical. When I trained on the Isle of Skye, I had fiddle practise in the next room to contend with. Here, a gentle middle eastern music drifted in through the doorway to set the scene.
(written 2006-05-20, updated 2006-05-22)
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