In the middle of the experience

We have just passed the middle of the experience here in Polokwane.
While for the project at Peakanyo Cooperative this week is crucial to consolidate the Marketing Plan we are developing to support them in their growth strategy, the last week end was really plenty of activities.
While I was concentrated in project activities, part of the team decided to go and ride horses within the Polokwane Game Reserve.
Participant described the show as extremely exciting (thanks to Caroline to provide the picture).

The brave man riding the horse very close to Rinos is Bob, one of the two team member from Canada (the other is Caroline). You can see more pictures at bobweir.webs.com.
About Saturday basically two things need to be mentioned: some sport and food.
For the first I really appreciated to have the possibility to play basketball with the local soccer team named Black Leopard. They are very friendly and I can confirm they took the right decision when started playing soccer instead of basketball ;-)

For the food, we pacifically invaded the kitchen of Masana Lodge, joining our friends the chef Tshepo (with the Canadian apron and Steven (the barman) with the green tie to cook: pasta aglio, olio e peperoncino, spiced chicken and roasted potatoes. In the picture we have also, from the left: Huan (US/Cina), Daniel (Brazil), Caroline (Canada) and myself.

Sunday was so amazing while zip lining and abseiling. We moved 80km out from Polokwane, toward the mountain side and we discovered a completely different land cape: a lot of water and many, many tall trees substituted the almost dried and flat landscape around the town.
Assisted by two instructor we faced 11 tracks of zip line and one of abseiling. And even if small, I hope you can recognize me in the pictures below.

Sport and Productivity

Everybody wants to do some sport, let's say, for example, basket.
Before you need a basket, which could be basically assembled by only a couple of people.
We decided to kill productivity working in 5.

Finally, at night,

we got our basket ready to use.

 

The other side of the coin

I took this video while going to our customer (sorry for the size).
That kind of settlement here in South Africa is called Township.
Any comments, feelings, or questions on what you will see would be really appreciated to understand if it provokes sensations I got while taking it.
Thanks.

First satisfaction

Today we met our customer (http://www.peakanyo.co.za/) for the second time and we had a two hours meeting to analyze how they use to produce their goods.

The first satisfaction comes from the feeling that our team could be really relevant for this cooperative: And that feeling derived from their managing director who at the end of the day commented the team had stimulated several good ideas on their business to reflect on.

While waiting next meeting to in depth on them, I share with a picture what you can find here in South Africa.

Lions Park - Joburg

Welcome to South Africa

After 2+11 hours of two flights, I finally arrived to Johannesburg yesterday night.

The fly showed an unbelievable mixture of cultures from around the world and colors, probably just anticipating the variety I will found here.

Minus two days

-2 days to leave to Johannesburg.

Today is the last day at office ... 

Experience is coming

Hi all,

this is my new blog related to the coming Corporate Service Corps experience in South Africa.

It will start next Thursday and I will use this blog to share whatever sensations coming out from the broad variety of South Africa cultural, natural, relational and business aspects.

#ibmcsc South Africa