staying. Today was the initial orientation session were we got to finally meet our Ghana clients in person!
The format of the day today included an initial presentation from Barbara from CDS, then each of the client that are going to be working with the Ghana 6 team presented an overview of their organization as well as a description of the statement of work they had prepared for their IBM team members.
We all wore our business suits and there were lots of opportunities for photos. Joe Mensah from the newly opened IBM office in Ghana presented as well. At lunch of traditional Ghananian food was served by the pool and we had the opportunity to talk to our new clients in a less formal setting.
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| The Ghana 6 team |
After lunch each team had a short workshop with their clients to discuss the business problem in more detail and finalize details for the scopes of work and the schedule for the first week of the assignment. My ECG team learned we had an executive briefing at 2:00 the following afternoon which meant a working dinner was going to be on the agenda tonight for the 6 of us.
We are finally starting to find our way around the hotel and the Community 10 area in general. A number of us ventured out on our own for a walk before dinner and made it home without getting lost and without mishap.
We are also getting a better understanding of how things work in the hotel. I showered with cold water for the first 2 days before I figured out that there is a switch on the wall outside the bathroom that turns on the hot water. It looked to me like a normal light switch. I also struggled to plug in my cell phone to charge because the two pronged plugs did not seem to fit in the wall socket. The hotel staff helped me with this one - apparently you have to shove a pen in the third hole to open up the 2 prong outlet. Who knew? Coming from North America we
are not generally encouraged to shove pens in outlets
And so ends another day in Ghana.
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