Hakuna Matata

When you have the 5th gear, you might as well use it ;o) Week has started in a speedy fashion...Monday and this morning was mainly teams presenting the client presentations to our clients.
Before the presentations started we went to visit IBM East-Africa office in Nairobi center. Nice office and fresh team, felt warmly welcomed there (well like overall in Kenya). Great talks between the team and local CEO.

During the presentations, it was nice to be able to observe the other sub-teams presenting their work plan as well. Everyone has, despite the daily hectic work and long work days, pushed to put a great piece of work together. Also, the presentation facilitation was nice to watch, as everyone is in this with passion. The other two teams have had really great start to their assignments. Inspiring owners to the assignments, which have been overloading them with information.

One of the presentations was given at the Nairobi University. Quite nice faculty, we got the tour around the university from end-to-end. Lovely garden and court yard, plenty of space for us to take photos and jump around ;o)

For my sub-team there have been some hick-ups on the scope of our assignment. We bumped into the fact that preparation at this side has suffered at some level. Work we were supposed to do is actually partially in progress elsewhere.
Yesterday and today have been trialling days, but as our team is equipped with SISU (Finnish for not giving up, persistence), we have managed to rebound both days. Tomorrow we will meet with the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Information and Communication to get some decisions on the direction. After that things will hopefully look again more clear, and we can really roll up our sleeves and dive into it.
By the way, they call the Permanent Secretary as PS ;o) Which I personally find funny.

Yesterday, to zero the day, we went to the neighboring hotel for dinner...which got extended to singing and loads of fun. Our team are eager singers and we ain't missing the laughing part either.
This our team song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUrVeRGo5IM

I designed to the team new dessert as well, lemon sorbet with vodka. Helped the chef to make them and the chef + waiter got excited about this new kick...it might end up on the menu list ;o)

Today has been bit mixture of emotions, when trying to think through with my sub-team about our options on going further with our assignment.
Also different country, different food its doing its thing....stomach is going through a crumbling phase. But oat porrige and vodka should help to make it an VERY intermediate thing (long live Salmari).

Tomorrow after the important meeting with the PS ;o) (which hopefully takes place), we will head to our permanent residence in Nakuru.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakuru

There we will have nature and wild life surrounding us. Need to charge the camera batteries tonight ;O) The driver's nerves will be tested on the journey to Nakuru with our Camera-maniac team...I know that we'll be demanding "slower, slower...we want to take a picture", "please stop here, we need to take some pictures".

So, what ever may come...I just will sing our team song...Hakuna Matata. Things will work out ;o) sooner or later. Lala Salama / Good night from Nairobi! #ibmscs kenya 3