Friday, August 6, 2010

It’s hot.

It’s 32C outside and everyone is sitting in the office complaining. Apparently when it’s hot, we sit at our desks and complain how hot it is. Good times.

My boss took me for a drive yesterday and today. He took me to all the different schools I need to visit and every possible combination. Basically, we spent a long time in the car. It was AMAZING…for multiple reasons.

1) The car has air conditioning.
2) My boss is a ninja in a business clothes (pictures will come when I have internet at home). But he ran up 100 steep wood stick steps in dress shoes and ran down, while I managed to eat it wearing my Dunks.
3) The clouds were fabulous.
4) I had sunglasses.
5) There were no cars and no buildings for good stretches of road.
6) I SAW MY FIRST TANCHO!

If you don’t know what a tancho is, you’re like the rest of the population. It’s the magical Japanese crane that was thought to be extinct for a good period of time. But they found a whole bunch in this marsh nearby (when I say “nearby” I mean it’s within a 50km radius). My boss took me up the 100 steep wood stick steps to a platform that overlooks to Kottaro Marsh. Lo and behold, a single tancho was chilling in the marsh. I took a picture (also will come when I have internet at home) but it seriously looks like a little white dot in a giant field of green.
Wikipedia probably has better pictures.

On a side note, there is a giant dragonfly flying around our office. That’s it for now. Off the internet for the weekend…WOOT!

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