back in business: viva la chaos!

After having a day off yesterday, this morning there was no training either. At nine we met Sören, a german coach who will be training here a well. We explained him the whole situation during breakfast and when that was done Barbara (babbala) and Taco went to the tv-tower and Jan back to computer city. Yesterday he accendentely deleted his china maps for the navigation system, so he went back to the shop to get a new copy. We met close to the tower and climbed down to some nice neighborhood and small park closeby. For lunch we bought some cookies in a very small shop on the street and we took a taxi back to the marina.

We told the translators to rig the boat, but then they told us they had no time. They couldn´t tell why yet, untill we heard we were supposed to sail in the big(ger) boats with some chinese families, who would be very important in the governement. We got a bit pissed of because that wasn´t in our plan and we needed all the time that was left. Plus, we didn´t really feel like entertaining people just for one day. Then somebody told us we could stick to our program, but when we went on with the translators, we were told again that we were really needed. So we thought of a compromise and figured out that the four best sailing translators would go in the bigger boats, with some other chinese, and two of us would guide them in the motorboat and one of us (babbala) would train the other two translators. This was really exciting for the translators, but they did great and it was a good test for next week. They clearly passed the test.

Now it is getting exciting for next week. 600 optimist still have to be delivered and a lot af things still have to be arranged. but we will just keep on training.