Midway presentations

The foyer of the lobby was buzzing with 3 professional looking IBM teams about to go into battle for their midway presentations. All 3 teams have put in the hard yards despite having the odd night out or weekend trips such as Zanzibar. The crew from the Zanzibar trip are no doubt still recovering from the several ordeals that transpired over the last 48 hours – this included but was not limited to being chased by beggars down the ferry wharves, hustled by bag handlers wanting an easy buck, spending 3 hours detained for ransom by the immigration port authority at the Zanzibar dock and then spending a good part of the following day in several medical clinics after one of the team members cut his head open on some overhead rocks.  Boy was it good to see that aircraft coming back! Let’s get the hell out of this place – it’s cursed! Anyway, from all reports each team had a fantastic morning with their presentations.  Personally I can only speak for the RITA team and despite leaving our team lead in the hotel with his head wrapped in bandages we managed to pull our presentation together after an early morning team meeting and re-shuffling who would present which slides.

It was a nice relief to have succeeded with our 3 hour midway presentation and have it behind us. After the presentation, I sat outside with the RITA team and ate my lunch. I had beads of sweat racing down my chest beneath my shirt – it was hot and sticky and occasionally I would dab my chest to catch the sweat beneath my shirt. Sweating to saturation was now a regular part of my day.

We return to the hotel and hear the fantastic success stories running around the teams. It’s time to go out for dinner and celebrate. You can sense the new breathing space that everyone is now enjoying after putting the midway presentation behind us. Great job team – Well done!!!!