Kenyan traffic is crazy allright, but this was the funniest...on Wednesday, on my way to IBM office in Nairobi, the driver did not know exactly where the office was. After driving around for a while, he spotted a police officer at a roundabout. So, what does he do...stops in the roundabout, behind a traffic sign. I sit in the car waiting while he runs to ask directions from the officer. It turns out that the exit to the direction of IBM office was the one, which we had just passed. Oh well...he reversed (in a roundabout!!!) to get the right exit. And this was done right infront of the police officer, who did not even blink his eyes ;o))))
Another country, where I will never sit behind the wheel myself.
Aside of doing our assignment, I was asked to support our local IBM colleagues with client visit. The team here is still fresh and they don't have yet all the business areas covered. The client meeting went well, but it was "very Kenyan". We showed up in time, but client representative wanted to go pay some bills first to the bank downstairs. Thus we started 30 mins late and yet had only till the original ending time to present.
Nevertheless all went well and client was really nice. It felt great to help directly and in concrete terms the local IBM team.
The days started 5.30 am - drive from Nakuru to Nairobi and ended around 10 pm when we were finally back in Nakuru. Loooong day, but great experience as well. #ibmscs Kenya 3
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Insku!! näitä sun posteja on niin ihana lukee. Kuulostaa aivan mielettömältä kokemukselta. Mulla on ihan kamala ikävä sua ja en malta oottaa ett päästään viettään iltaa jutellen kaikesta. Hyvää projektin jatkoa sinne ja mukavata viikonloppua! Niki
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