After just 7 days of working under the EAI department of HP, I was transferred to the MDM (Master Data Management) team. This happened because fate wanted me to travel to Ohio for training. The duration of this training is about 12 weeks. And I left Manila on October 1. That day was the longest day of my life. It lasted for 36 hours since when I arrived in Detroit, it was still October 1 (PH time minus 12 hours). We experienced a lot of delays and were left by the flight from Detroit to Ohio (extra 4 hours delay). At least we managed to get to Cincinatti, Ohio in one piece.
The weather here is as they say: “Weird”. Each day, the temperature is different. One day it was below 10 degrees celsius, then the next day it became 20+ degrees celsius. So far, the weather here on my first week of stay is stable. It wasn’t too cold nor was it too hot. But they said that the weather tomorrow and Friday will reach 0 degrees celsius. Haha freezing point!
So far, some things I learned here in Ohio are:
[1] Game called “CornHole”
[2] American version of basketball (21 points)
[3] Eating salad (yuck!)
[4] Egg rolls = lumpia (yuck! I was fooled twice)
[5] How to do the laundry using washing machine and drier.
The game called “CornHole” is a unique game in Ohio. The rules can be found at this link.
Well, that’s about it so far. I’ll try to keep this site updated once a week. ~bye!
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