Sand storms in the Saudi deserts….

I travelled to Saudi Arabia for the inauguration of our new subsidiary there; we have been working out every little detail for months now. We all were looking forward to the big day just to get rid of the nerves breaking pressure from the Japanese management. I spend 5 days there in which I used to leave the hotel at 6 AM and come back around 12 AM next day. We were short in hands and we even had to do some labor work using our own skills.

In the big day everything was set like a Swiss clock but nature had another plan to welcome us in the Saudi deserts. And what can be a better and warmer welcome than a Sand Storm, in the most inconvenient of all times, in the forth day of the five days, nature chooses to blow up some steam.

The inauguration tent was almost blown down and we had to cut the ceremony short and move to the lunch tent which had to be perforated to allow wind, and of course sand, to go through without tearing the whole structure down.

In ten years time I hope to meet someone who’ve got a job there and I’ll be more than satisfied knowing that at least a long exhausting day of my life in which, as usual, I had to do the work of all four members of my team, did not go in vain.