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Saturday, September 08, 2007

It's been a very long and tiring week. As I said last week I spent it away on the next part of my training with work.

I did find the training very interesting but I have to say it's been pretty packed throughout the week. It doesn't help that I have a follow up training session next week (but thankfully only for one day this time).

It was really great to see the group again as they are such a diverse and friendly bunch. Sadly one of the Russian girls was victim to company restructure so has left and another wonderful young lady, Anke is no longer attending as she leaves the company in October (best of luck Anke).

We had a few new members from Spain, Ireland and Germany so there was s further cultural mix this time.

I think some of the highlights from this week had to be when we got lost on our evening ramble (well it was a talking point), seeing one of the Russian girls talking to someone in Moscow whilst on the ramble and experiencing the level of feedback we gain from focus groups.

I didn't take many photographs this time (other people certainly did!) but the ones I did take I added to my set on Flickr.

I don't know if it's got something to do with being with a group of people who are predominately younger than me but I have just spent the afternoon wandering around St Albans trying to find some nice clothes for work and for the autumn. I cannot find anything. I see people with stacks of bags laden down with shopping and yet I cannot find anything I like. All the shirts in the shops look cheap and nasty (even the expensive ones) and no one does any decent shoes.

I look at the clothes on sale at the moment and wonder who would actually wear any one it. In one shop they had a perfectly nice tweed coat but it had a hoody attached to it - yes you could remove it but why did it need the hoody in the first place?

I had a hiccup with this weeks Trunk Cast so I have decided to put together a small edited show which lets you into The Secret World of Brandy. The original show included much of what I have mentioned above so I don't think I have missed to much by publishing the edit.

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Maybe...

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Maybe the course wasn't so bad after all...

I think the great thing about this week has been the other attendees and our excellent tutor. It was kind of awkward to have all those nationalities in one room at first (English, Swiss, Russian, German, French and Belgium), but we soon all relaxed and thoroughly enjoyed one anothers' company.

I would like to think I have made some great new friends this week and learnt a great deal in the process.

Roll on our next get together in September!

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Delayed start

Monday, June 18, 2007

Well I wasn't looking forward to my weeks training and starting it feeling so rough wasn't very encouraging. I think the driver thought he was Lewis Hamilton as he drove like a bat out of hell. I choose to try and get some shut eye on the way.

The centre reminds me of Cranfield where I used to work so it's pretty much my idea of hell.

The fellow attendees are very nice and come from places such as Switzerland and Russia. It's just a shame I am not currently that focussed on the content. I am sure I will settle in though!

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