It has been a very interesting week with so many new things and experiences relating to work and life with my team. While I am part of my home life (virtually) on a daily basis my life is filling up with a whole new way of thinking and living in this part of the world. I call this my Arab sense. This sometimes makes it hard for me when I get an email from work back home to get my head in the right place, to think carefully and rationally, my euro sense. So I marvel at the translators I meet here who are Arabic yet have the ability to live in a Euro-Arab centric world. I was at a meeting recently which was being translated at a great rate of knots. The speaker made a couple of minor error in the presentation and so acknolwedged that they were very tired. This was translated to which the translator added that he too was indeed very tired - you sort of had to be there to capture the essence of the humour. It was the notion while we were operating at one fast speed. His was double that, yet he was able to convey this subtle humour through his translation. The room (english speakers) just cracked up.
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