First day at Tesco

So today was my first day of actual work. Although to be fair I"m not sure how much I can count the meetings I was in today as work. The office is much nicer than I was expecting and Natalie and I have our own little space in the corner of the marketing depatment. I didn't get any photos of that yet, but I did take some while visiting the attached Tesco Hypermart. For the most part it has a normal large store feel but there are a few differences from what I'm used to (besides not being able to read the signs). For one, it's part of a mall that Tesco set up. The other more different part is the fresh section. It has much more of a market feel with everything laying out on ice and being sold in loose quantities.

Small stands in the Tesco mall

Inside the Tesco Hypermarket

The fresh fish section

After this first day's commute I can see why people complain about the traffic. We had a driver pick us up today and it took well over an hour to get in. Driving around here efficiently seems to be a real art. You can get places quickly but you really have to know what you're doing and because of how hard it is to get to the other side of the street, which side of the street you have to get to can make a bigger difference than how far you have to go. I don't think our driver has all of this mastered yet. We got caught in quite a few stand-stills on the way in and on the way back we found a lot of dead end streets before we found our hotel.