Category: GAP Program
Our first day in Malaysia was all about tourism by numbers. 97-272-88.
It is Sunday afternoon and the team Philips is here and working!
Phil was the first one to arrive Thursday night and did some reconnaissance work. Katie and Melissa finished finals and came in on Friday. Justin arrived soon after, having bungee jumped from the Macao Tower, the highest bungee point in the world (this was work-related, of course). Rajiv came in Saturday after doing some medical volunteer work in Vietnam. And John arrived Sunday after many delays. But as always, he was ready to hit the ground running!
News Update. . . Joey now has luggage!
Day 2 . . . our team is continuing to settle in. . . which has proven to be rather amusing in our new habitat . .
Here is what we have learned . . .
I've stolen this title from Gregg's personal blog. . . as it is all too fitting for today's events
In Dubai, the holy day is Friday so the RISE team begins our work week on Sunday . . . today.
The first week of our assignment includes a great deal of observation within Dubai, studying the current franchise trends, gaps between the offerings in the United States, general demographic information, etc. Basically, we need to get acclimated and fast as we have to present our findings first thing next week.
Team Verte reporting from Lyon, France here. We are enjoying every minute of this wonderful experience but getting here was, at times, a bumpy experience. We endured over 24 hours of travel that included ‘excess poundage’ and narrowly evading exorbitant fees at the Columbus Airport (after sharing 8 pounds of breakfast bars amongst two team members to keep checked luggage weight down), one member almost not being allowed to board the flight, and another member popping ‘ludes on the flight and still being unable to sleep (and repeating ‘hang up the phone’ to other team members).