Work Day Fourteen - All work and no play (Todo o trabalho e nenhum jogo)

And about time too I can hear some people say!   He's surely having far too much fun in between the work.

We didn't do that much more work than normal today but there was a distinct lack of interest in going out for a meal and a drink tonight - perhaps something to do with some of the team (not me) being out late last night practising their dancing moves.

Chi's laptop is still with the IBM technician so Karen very kindly lent Chi her own laptop.  The day was spent in working on our deliverables and overall we have made good progress.  I'd say the main document is now around 90% complete.  We had a good review of it with Laerte this afternoon, following which we made some updates and sent him a copy for more in-depth review.  He seemed pretty happy with it after our walk-through.

We've started work on a much reduced and more targeted presentation which Laerte has asked that we give to two groups - a business association on Monday (possible funders) and a meeting of people interested in the third sector on Tuesday (possible customers).  The third sector is the the voluntary or community sector (also known as the non-profit sector) as opposed to the public (government) and private (business) sectors, and covers all the NGOs with whom most of the larger team is working.

Laerte gave us a copy of the advertising poster for the latter meeting today.

The title reads (thanks to Google Translate - what a great tool - why didn't we have that when I was struggling through second form French)

We change the way we think about changing the world.  We will participate in the second round of formation and development for the third-sector.

The red arrow saying Palestras (lectures) is pointing straight at a blue box (very appropriate) which says 

Special participation. A team of international consultants from the global firm IBM.  

So we are a headline act!  Our 15  minutes of fame is about to happen - mind you, shared amongst the four of us that's only 3m 45s each.  Still, better than nothing.

After we saw that I'd say there was a more focused atmosphere in the room - we have an immovable deadline.

Karen took us home a bit early as she had an appointment to go to so we arrived back at the hotel at the same time as some of the others.  At the time everyone seemed interested in going out around the usual time of 8 but when the hour arrived people had gradually decided they were too tired or had too much work to make the time. In the end three of us went across the road to the Pizzeria which was doing "all you can eat" pizza and pasta for R$18, or around NZ$11-12.  And it was good too - a little more like the pizza we are used to in NZ except they don't use tomato sauce. Lots of nice fillings and some good dessert pizzas to finish - a delicious banana one and one covered in chocolate sprinkles. When we got there around 8:30 it was fairly quiet but by the time we left an hour or so later it was filling up - lots of large family groups with young children.

Before dinner I had time to catch up with my wife on Skype on what was happening at home so that was another plus for the day.

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