written 2013.2.19, 0644 hrs
So this is the norm here: we work on weekday nights and almost all throughout the weekend.
You would think that our Lego excursion earlier was a free day for us but actually, we only had the morning free as we were due back to the hotel lounge by 1PM for our "daily" meeting. When we arrived there, some of our groupmates where already hard at work and the other group has taken over the other side of the lounge.
Hmmm... Let me tell you about the lounge first: It's a big room that can be divided by a long, sliding door in the middle. We have two sets of sofas with TVs each. There are DVDs and books (in English) for us if we would like to read (as if we would have time!) and two toilet rooms although the other one was converted as our laundry area, with two front-load machines and a dryer that does not seem to work most of the time (I'll tell you later how I figured out how it works). There are two refrigerators, two microwaves, a spot for heaters, and mugs.
Okay, going back to our work-full weekends, as I said, today is no exception. We are preparing for our first formal presentation to the "Board" of our business options given the resources we can recover from the given scenario. As I would like to keep a semblance of anonymity in my blog, I will not go into details. Suffice it to say that we are Working Really Hard!
Let me tell you about my team first (yes, my team as I was assigned to handle the first part of this exercise): we are a multicultural team made of people coming from three continents, with varied ages and disciplines. We have people coming from Ecuador, Nicaragua, Philippines, DPR Congo, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Yemen, and our ages range from very young (early 30s) to old (a grandfather). Some of us are geologists, geophysicists, engineers (facilities, reservoir, production, environmental), economists, accountants and lawyers. So far, this diversity has not hindered us from working together well, acting as one group with disciplines that complement and answer to the needs of our Case. There had been arguments already and voice-raising but all is well. So far, so good.
Here are some of our pictures:
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