Thursday, 12 February 2009

My first day in London

Hi everyone, and especially Hamish

Today I arrived in London. Donna got back from her trip to Florida and found me safe and secure at her house. She decided that we would start things off with a trip to her office - the photo of my arrival at her office is the title to this blog!

I didn't see much of London on my first day, as Donna was really tired. But I did get to meet everyone on her team at work, and she told them all about Hamish's project (me!) and they were all really excited. They started making plans about where I would get to visit during my time with Donna.

Donna works for the LNG trading team at Total. Total is a big oil company, and LNG stands for Liquefied Natural Gas. Did you know that they can take natural gas, super cool it, and it turns into liquid (well, about the consistency of hair gel). Then they pump the liquid onto a ship and send it to where people need natural gas. Natural gas is used mostly for power generation. It is mostly produced in remote places of the world, so they cool it to put it onto ships and send it to highly populated areas with a lot of demand for power generation. Donna's team is involved in buying and selling LNG. It seems very glamorous to me!

Donna's team travels all over the place. So far they have plans to take me with them on their business trips to Yemen, China, Mexico, Nigeria, France... I am so excited to see so many new things. Our first trip is next week!

Donna works on a trading floor. Tomorrow she is letting me spend some time with her friend who buys and sells natural gas. Maybe he will let me do a deal!

To finish my first night out Donna and her husband took me to dinner near their house. I got to meet the waiters and chefs. It was fun!

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