The Adventure has begun

The adventure has begun - I arrived yesterday in Nairobi from my skiing holiday in Austria. Quite a change! Both cultural wise and weather wise. I was picked up in the airport by Raphael and taken to the Country Lodge were I met with a few people from the team.
The team consists of 12 IBM'er from all over the world - we are here to work for one month on three different projects for IBM's Corporate Service Corps

Today is Saturday and 6 of us managed to meet in the hotel even though we have never seen each other before. We only know the team from weekly phone calls since Christmas.
We decided to go for at short walk to the national museum. The short walk turned out to be a 2 hour walk in the heat of the sun and the dust of the road before we finally reached our goal. We probably didn't take the shortest way. We were happy when we managed to cross the roads - traffic is hell. But we followed some of the locals and managed to get over the road in one piece. We toured the museum and had a lovely lunch at a cafe and went back to the hotel - this time by taxi.

Joshua, Anna, Nimesh, John and Eva in front of the National Museum

Later tonight we are meeting with our NGO representatives and the rest of the team - can't wait.