Suddenly... nothing happened!

The middle management got back to Blighty earlier this week, and LM phoned me this morning.

Departure is now set back until 28th January, "but don't be suprised if that slides". The accommodation isn't ready - there was a trouble with the bathrooms (electrical sockets next to the washbasins, wall tiles on the floors - actually all par for the course in HUDC). The site manager told them that the project was only a month behind schedule, and this was astonishing. Indeed. The workforce are Egyptians, not locals, so that might explain this relative speed.

So if we do go out at the end of this month, we'll probably be in a hotel for a while.

The classrooms are far from being ready, the workforce consisting of HUDC's finest, a couple of depressed looking souls who turn up and mooch around occasionally.

And there's a problem with the students, who are to be teachers at the college in due course. They have been paid only nominally for the last month or so - something in the region of £10 per month. Naturally, they're a bit pissed off about this. This might lead to mutiny and is the biggest potential problem, as I see it, given the obduracy of HUDC's bureaucracy.

I've got curriculum development work I can be getting on with, in a fairly leisurely fashion it must be said. Also work for my masters degree. And making the most of the unexpected time with the family and my friends.