Monday, final week.

We need to leave the Airport View Hotel this morning, and check progress at our original hotel, the Orchid. As well as that, I need to shave and get some work clothes - when we picked up essentials the dust was thick, and no one wanted to spend more time than necessary in that cloud. I will miss the shower though, small, but worked well. Breakfast this morning was baked beans on sour dough toast, I'm looking forward to the bread I'm used to again, the novelty is wearing off :)

There was no Internet available again last night, 3G or WiFi. Maybe Vodafone are doing some upgrades, or fixing whatever went wrong the other night. It's ok, we move on, but it is also frustrating, and I think everyone will appreciate how available our Internet is at home after this.

The big event today was our presentation to help train our key stakeholders in the specifics of the Risk Management we are implementing, and share with them an early view of our top risks. As part of our preparation, we met with the IBM Country Manager for Ghana, Mr Joe. Mensah. The advice was very valuable and will immensely help our final presentation - however, our workload just spiked! Agghhh, its more of that eating brussel-sprouts problem - very good for us, but I hate the taste!

My...that's a few seats!





The meeting was scheduled for 4pm, and we kicked off around 4:40pm once the key people had arrived (Ghana Time). If the level of engagement and questions and responses between the attendees is a sign of success, then the presentation was very successful. More brilliant feedback and tips, we need to update our presentation with a fix to one of the risks currently too wordy and confusing, to draw on more real life examples, and include a condensed method of identifying risks that anyone could use. This has been a key opportunity to learn what we can do better before our final presentation. We get another practice with a Working Group on Wednesday, and then final presentation Friday. We finished up at 7pm tonight, and that is probably indicative of this week. Thank goodness we are as prepared as we are, or we would have been in for a hell week this week.



- Keep on Rockin'. Dwight.

Location:Duade St,Accra,Ghana