End of Work Week 2

After identifying which items are the highest priority on Monday, we were able to make some good progress researching potential options and solutions for our client.  I do feel bad we are not able to help out with all of our recommendations, but that would take a year or more and we only have the four weeks.  The cool thing is that when we are doing the research and learning about tools, I'm learning too - as some of these things I have not used before myself.

The people in our office are very nice and very friendly.  I'm very impressed at their attempts to speak English and as I stated before, it is WAY better than my Indonesian, but I am trying.

Last week on either Thursday or Friday we heard a bunch of drumming, etc. in the morning while we were trying to work.  They told us that it was the Government Band practicing.  This week, we heard the same thing on Thursday, so I asked to go and see them.  Here is a short video for you to listen and watch!

It was fun listening to them and we got a few pictures with them also.   Vivek, a member of our larger 10-person team, came with us to the office on Thursday to see if he had any skills that could help us or any ideas that we hadn't thought of.  It was nice to run through all of our observations and summarize for him as well as to bounce ideas around.

Jess, Marcelo, and Vivek with band

Then, Thursday after work, we had a team meeting for about two hours.  We went around the room and explained what each of our projects were about, challenges, solutions, etc.  This was done because we have a lot of skills on our team and when we were assigned to teams, some of the scopes of work were vague and we want to make sure we are using our "resources" in the best way possible.  This sharing of thoughts, ideas, and projects was a good thing to do and it was good to get input from other teams and give them some of my knowledge too.

I can't believe we are already at the end of week two.  It seems that time is flying by.