Vitor Rodrigues

12 hours of flight can be transformed into 32 hours of travelling, if you have to "visit" 4 airports and one of the flights gets delayed, making you spend the night at the airport waiting for a connection flight. The (not!) awesome United Airlines declined to pay for a hotel room for the about 50 people with lost connections, because, according to them, the delay "was in the taxi way, so it’s not our fault". Well, for some reason that wasn’t explained, the airplane left the gate in direction to the taxi way almost one hour late. Considering that my connection was 15 minutes after our arrival to Washingotn Dulles Airport, that hour would have been enough for me!

After leaving Carapeços (Barcelos, Portugal) at 8:00h of September 25, I just arrived Toronto (Canada) at 11h30 of September 26.

I’ll be in the Toronto area for one year, enjoying the freezing weather of Canada, and also enjoying my work at IBM Canada, working as a technology enabler for DB2 9 pureXML™.

1st impressions:

• traffic is hell! Even worse than Los Angeles.
• The streets/houses are old and not taken care off.
• the IBM lab is just beautifull, and with excellent conditions.
• I need to get a network cable, because the wireless signal in my office is very weak…

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