February 20, 2014
The day starts at 4:30 AM with
breakfast. Any type of food you want. Get your lunch to go, salads, sandwiches,
drink and deserts. Go to the car and face the first cold blast of the day. The
temperature has been as low as -35F (-37.22C) and
a wind chill of -50F (-45.56C).
Conduct the training and return around 4:00 PM.
The camp has a total of 10--3
storey units, with 40 room per story (total
of 1200 rooms) at present about 800 men and 10 women are staying
here. If the company did not provide these rooms no one would come here.
We go to dinner around 6:00 PM, again
great food, Steaks, chicken, fish, hamburgers, hot dogs etc. Your chose what
you want and as much you want.
The rooms are small but cleaned
everyday (sure beats the
tent I stayed in the African jungle). The TV has 30 channels, but
only 3 in English the rest are in French. The English speaking
channels are ESPN, The Food Network and Fox out of Rochester New York. When
Nicole was bed ridden from here accident she got Netflix and let's
me share. It has keep my sanity on my time off.
The French loves eggs. The interpreter
has eggs in the morning, for lunch he has a cold egg sandwich and at night
he has a hamburger with a egg or a steak with a egg or chicken with a egg. He is
a great guy and very helpful in the class room, but at lunch when he has the
cold egg sandwich and tells me how great it taste it's hard for me to
agree. A few years back we were told that eggs are bad for us (that advice must not have made it to
France).
The pictures show the man camp and
interior. The picture at the mine is a haul truck getting loaded. The shovel
cost $40 million and each truck $6 million. The mine operates 4 shovels and 40
haul trucks. This may help explain the cost of a new car and the iron
in it. Today we are having a heat wave -8F (-22.23C) and sunny. A good
place to take vacation. HA! HA! HA!
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