Well, on Saturday, I visited the city park called Cubban Park. It's more like a natural park with walking trails. There were people there practicing yoga. They have a train ride there for kids. There are lots of old trees. The trees are labled with a number and the name of the tree type. A lot of them grow in really twisted directions. Here's a piture of one:
The lady on the right is our landlord Renu. Her husband took the picture for me. The lady in the middle is from my town Raleigh, NC !!! She is also renting an apt. from Renu. She works for Nortel and is here for a couple of weeks to do some call translations work for Nortel. She is Vietnamese. It turns out that we actually worked with a lot of the same people many years ago and I don't know how we never managed to meet back then. We probably passed each other in the halls at Nortel. It's a small world. I told her we sure traveled a long distance to finally meet!
Most of the Nortel contractors I have met have actually been to Raleigh or lived there. Nortel has always had one of their major training centers in Raleigh and some of them have been there for classes. Two of the contractor guys are now from Richardson/Dallas, TX. Another is from the southern Florida. I try to get together with them about once or twice a week for a dinner served at the landlord's apartment.
Here's another pic of some bamboo growing in a marshy area at the park. The bamboo was extrmemely tall and big around in diameter. I'll bet they were 30-40 feet tall:
Later,
Glenn