Day 7 – Working with a headache and feeling bad
By bogaert| Although I had a good sleep I woke up with some headache. The good news is that I found a torch installed next to the bed, which you might need in case of a power-cut. In my case a bit late, but anyway it is good to know. It is hard to believe that I’m away from home since more then a week. Time is flying fast. But it still looks a long time till I am going to be back at home. Feeling a bit dizzy, I couldn’t eat much at breakfast and took only some of the fresh fruit. Have the feeling I might need to step back in some kind of safety mode in terms of food. | |
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After breakfast Amit, Megan, and me walked down the street to go and work on the top floor of Starbucks, of course with a large Americano. We had to prepare the lecture for the local school as we have to submit the outline by the end of the day to the dean. I couldn’t really focus on what I was doing, and felt bad for my team mates at the end. Also a pity Cecily and Christy did not join the preparation work, they could have learned something. For lunch a small sandwich was more then enough. We drafted the first half of the presentation and returned to the hotel, where we had to meet the other team and work jointly on the second half of the presentation. At lot of discussion on the format, and finally we called our program manager Lesley to pass by and help us out in the interpretation of what needed to be completed by the end of the day. Lesley gave to Megan and me already a brief introduction in the art of Tai Chi during yesterday’s meeting pause. We could convince her to give us another introduction, which was great! We kept discussing, but we agreed to meet with the rest of the team downstairs at 18:30, so we had to break-up the gathering. We need to find a way to speed up the work, let’s see tomorrow how we can fix this. Downstairs we discussed briefly the possibilities of the weekend program. Seems many different opinions on the different alternatives is going the split the group apart. |
 Lesley demonstrating Tai Chi |
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In between I try to practice my little knowledge of Mandarin. It’s a very tough language in pronunciation, in particular the little variations of similar tones with a total different meaning. I think I will give up soon. I needed to take a picture of the elevator buttons, take a look by yourself at the photo and notice the numbering of the floors. Dinner at a small local restaurant was surprisingly fun, half of our team joined together with three of our interns. The food was ordered by our interns and dropped in the middle of the table, shared by the entire team. The table looked a bit like a mess when leaving. Walking back to the hotel I made a small detour with Sabarinath, I need some air and stretching of my legs before getting back to my room. |
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 Elevator buttons |
 Going for dinner |
 Dinner |
 Animal = food |
 The dinner aftermath |
 Taking pictures of the dinner aftermath |
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