tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30184248347437209422023-11-16T03:31:57.433-08:00SAP Social Sabbatical 2015 - Team SOLETeam Solehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869021123609597186noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018424834743720942.post-32489901608299311002015-10-30T12:42:00.001-07:002015-10-30T12:42:09.792-07:00Days 15 - 19 - TV Interviews & Field Trips<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week is pretty hectic, between winding down our project,
getting interviewed by local/national news and managing to go out of Bogota a
couple of times for work field trips and sightseeing day trips, it's clearly a race against time..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I came back pretty sick, with a bad cold, from Medellin:-( What a way to start my
week. Had to stay in the hotel for a couple of days to get over the cold and cough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Divi and Rene hold down the forte at the SOLE
office and represented SAP. Nice work guys!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Also this week, we have a cooking session in Sabrina’s room, this
week it is Pasta night.. Yummy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On Friday, we go to Cazuca (South of Bogota) for a SOLE
session in collaboration with another organization called Fundacion Tiempo de
juego. Cazuca is a neighborhood south of Bogota, this is one of the most
dangerous and neglected sectors of Soacha. Regardless, the welcome that we
received from the kids in the center of Tiempo de juego was so touching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is what we’ve been waiting for since we got here. I don’t
even think words can explain our experience. We went with the Fundacion Capital
group on this field trip. What an amazing experience… The kids were so excited
to see us! At first we had an intro session and played some serious games with
the kids… They are so full of energy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the games, the group was split into 2. 1 group went
back to the community center for the SOLE session while the 2<sup>nd</sup>
group stayed behind to play football (Soccer).
The SOLE session was very interesting and the kids were so enthusiastic about
the session. It was so nice to see how much they were so into it. The BIG
question was “Where did Football (Soccer) come from”? Of course this means,
letting the kids loose on the computer to research and be prepared to present in
front of everyone else. What a bunch Smart KIDS!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the SOLE session, we went back to the Soccer field,
played a round of soccer with some of kids. By 5:15pm, all the kids had to be
sent back home as the curfew for kids to be home was 5:30pm. Lots of hugs and
kisses were exchanged. We were only there for a 3 hours but these kids really
touched our hearts with their openness and smiles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Team Solehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869021123609597186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018424834743720942.post-21829889562671889632015-10-26T08:52:00.002-07:002015-10-26T08:52:48.020-07:00Day 13 - Coffee Plantation Tour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US">The way to the plantation was funny and potholes in the street made us jump and helped us to wake up! Fatimah didn’t drive with us because she doesn’t like us anymore. That is also the reason why I need to write this blog today – just kidding. Fatimah, Miss Colombia 2015, was in Medellin to visit a friend. But we replaced her with a friend of Divi. Actually I called him Fatimah a couple of times…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Around 10 am we arrived on the coffee plantation. There we recognized that it’s much warmer than in Bogotá which made us smile. First welcome we got from a huge black dog jumping on Sri (see pic below). Our guide came a couple of minutes later. He showed us a really nice garden and gave us some time to do pictures of trees, coffee plants and some nice flowers. The tour took around 90 minutes. We learnt who coffee plants look like, how many beans you need to pick on a daily basis, how to roast coffee beans and how puppies look like</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US"> During the tour we also made many pictures with us and a red vintage car. This is now the facebook profile picture of many of us.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At the end of the tour our guide made some really nice and fresh coffee to us incl. coffee liqueur tasting. We also had the possibility to buy some souvenirs like coffee and bracelets. Maybe because of the liqueur people got crazy and bought around 50 bracelets.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The way back home to Bogotá took 2 ½ boring hours. There was no A/C and everybody was hungry because we didn’t had lunch so far. We arrived in B-City at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1630174974" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">2 pm</span></span> and went to the center to a really good burger place. This was an excellent place for nine of us. But I think the 3 vegetarians still love us.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After late lunch Steffen and René went back to the hotel and the group of 10 went for sight sighing and shopping. I am not sure who spend the most of the money but statistically it’s Divi </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At night the glorious eight Gek, Sabrina, Gerda, Georg, Daniel, Steffen, Michal and René went to the rooftop bar Centrico. This place (<a href="http://www.centrico.co/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.centrico.co</a>) is in the 41th floor of a sky scraper and it is bloody awesome. It was difficult to come in but René had extreme got connections and he wore the same shirt like the waiters!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In Centrico we first had dinner together with a couple of cocktails. At <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1630174975" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10:30 pm</span></span> the restaurant turned into a club and the awesome eight started to dance. At SAP we learnt that connections are really important! So we decided to connect to EVERYONE in the club and to make this night unforgettable. Below you can find some funny pictures of this night. By the way the club is now renamed into “Bogotá Orchids”.</span></div>
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Team Solehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869021123609597186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018424834743720942.post-41251128078861917252015-10-21T20:51:00.004-07:002015-10-25T19:39:24.454-07:00Day 11 and 12<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>16 Oct 2015 (Friday)</b><br />
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The day began with an amazing interview with the explorers.<br />
Explorers in SOLE Colombia are the trainers who train the ambassadors of each SOLE location,<br />
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We were fortunate to speak to Laura, Sara, Pedro and Christian who had experiences from the Caribbean and the Pacific Coast areas of Colombia.<br />
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The excitement we saw in them was palpable and contagious about the discovery of SOLE by the ambassadors and participants alike.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">An explorer from Caribbean Coast mentioned " Everyday is an
adventure, Experience to really get to know people. Beautiful people in
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We were pushed outta the conference room by the SOLE Colombia staff only because they wanted to plan a Surprise cake for Sanjay (MD Of SOLE Colombia) - it was his birthday! :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After a yummy cake followed a yummier lunch at an amazing Italian restaurant (wonder how to find these places.. SAP team hardly seems to find them on their own) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The team decided to go the Andino for some shopping. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Me and Gek shopped like crazy at 70% sale :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The sad part of the day was that Gerda's iPhone was stolen at a Crepes & Waffles outlet near La Candaleria.. All the paperwork had taken so much time and Gerda, Srikanth were quite exhausted.</span><br />
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<b>15 Oct 2015 (Thursday)</b></div>
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SOLE has been bustling today.. More kits to be packed and
we are scuttling around the two rooms.. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We also had a new captain for the day, Liza our ever
cheery local consultant from Pyxera was here to meet SOLE. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The thursday of canvassing.. Armed with the additional
knowledge about business canvas.. We were ready to discuss the canvas with
sanjay.. The most simple thing was to fill up the 3 column venn chart with
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Since SOLE had many partners who overlapped as customers
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I think we have been eating out and sampling a lot since
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opposite to our favorite sandwich place - el barrio.. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The place was a Peruvian restaurant with some awesome
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Today evening was planned by the Social Sabbatical team
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The supermarket shopping was done by a few of us and
Rene's room was decided unanimously as the party hangout <span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol";">😄</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Daniel was the chopping expert and Gek was the expert for
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Divi, Srikanth with their Indian food and rest working
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Oh.. Watta day! <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol', sans-serif;">😄😄😄</span> watta lovely day! :) </div>
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A little background on the different roles and people that help make SOLE run. We have the <b>participants</b> (in business sector, known as end users), they are the kids, youths, adults and retirees in rural, remote and undeserved communities, who are looking to explore opportunities, learn new things and to be empowered. We have the <b>ambassadors</b> who help set up the SOLE sessions and provide the space for the participants to learn and grow. These sessions are held in Schools, Libraries and Kiosks (set up by the Ministry of Information and Technology - <b>MINTIC</b>). The computers in the Kiosks are provided by the ministry to encourage people to be empowered to learn and be technology literate. Then finally we have the <b>explorers. </b>These are the ones who help train the ambassadors on what to do. How to create an environment where the participants can learn, to encourage dialogue and research, to explain what and how SOLE works in different environments, communities and space. In other words, the explorers are the beginning of the SOLE chain. They really are explorers because they do go to places that are not easy to reach, to do what they really believe in.<br />
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This week has again gone by so fast, as much as we miss our families and friends we also wish the days will not fly this fast :-)<br />
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Our first day back to the SOLE office after a long weekend was pretty productive! I think getting away for the long week, got our creative juices flowing. We revised a couple of items on our SOW based on feedback from Liza (Pyxera).<br />
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Usually on Tuesday evenings, after we get back to the hotel, the whole Bogota Orchids Team gather for a meeting in the hotel conference room. Today also happens to be the day for the Colombia vs Uruguay game and it was raining so traffic was not pretty. Our ride usually takes us about 15mins to and from the office but today it took 1 hour 15mins! not a good start to a Tuesday evening meeting.<br />
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No rain, no game, no traffic! What more could we ask for?<br />
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Today, we worked on the Business Canvas and also we got a chance to interview with the SOLE office team. One of the things we are looking at was helping SOLE align their operational functions to their strategies. Getting insights into everyone's duties and functions was very helpful. I can't say enough how much dedication the team in this organization has. GO TEAM SOLE!<br />
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Once we came back from the office, we met up with a couple of other team members for dinner and had a few laughs.<br />
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Another thing that's so great about this experience is the fact that we get to literally be with each other day morning, afternoon and night (about 12 -15 hours everyday!) and we are still able to keep our sanity and sense of humor.<br />
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After dinner we adjoined to Rene's room to review our Business Canvas with Georg (from Team FC). We realized that we needed a little bit more direction and guidance on this and Georg was kind enough to offer his help! This was an amazing session and very helpful. Danke Georg!<br />
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Team Solehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869021123609597186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018424834743720942.post-53149563842406468522015-10-13T21:00:00.000-07:002015-10-13T21:00:06.485-07:00Day 6, 7 and 8 - Cartagena!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Oct 10th, 11th & 12th.<br />
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Monday the 12th is a holiday in Colombia (Dia de la Raza), so before we came to Colombia we decided to spend the long weekend in Cartagena. It took hours of planning but it was definitely worth it! So for the next 3 days we explore Cartagena and enjoy it's many different faces..<br />
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We left the hotel at 5:30am on Saturday Oct 10th to catch a 8am flight out of Bogota. Went through security pretty fast.<br />
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Landed in Cartagena at around 9:45am but had to wait a while for the tour driver to pick us up. Cartagena is pretty hot and humid, we have definitely arrived to the Caribbean! While bogota weather is a bit like Europe in the fall, Cartagena weather is very much Caribbean weather.<div>
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Cartagena is a city in the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region (<a href="http://www.cartagenadeindias.travel/?la=en" target="_blank">Cartagena De Indias</a>).<br /><div>
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We arrived at the hotel and had only an hour to freshen up and get ready for day 1 of our tour. Our tour guide from Destino Bogota arrived on time (shocking!) and we were on our way to explore the city! Cartagena's old city is by far it's principal attraction, especially the inner walled town, consisting of historical districts of El Centro and San Diego. We walked around and explored the hidden gem that is Cartagena.</div>
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Well, the mini vacation is over today. We went to the old city one more time, had lunch and walked around for last minute shopping and sightseeing. We returned to the hotel and boarded the bus to the airport... Goodbye Cartagena! You are definitely special!</div>
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As I write this, I reflect on what an honor it is for us to be a part of this adventure with other team members (who we've mostly never met and didn't even know existed until a couple of months ago). To be here together in Colombia working for various non profits while really experiencing and exploring a new culture/food/people etc. Words are not enough to describe what we are feeling and experiencing.. Thank you SAP CSR and Pyxera for this adventure!</div>
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Team Solehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869021123609597186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018424834743720942.post-32301765093385253982015-10-13T18:37:00.002-07:002015-10-13T18:53:12.402-07:00Day 5 – Project Plan & Revised SOW<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It seems we don't have enough hours in the day to go to the office (clients), have our daily planning sessions, discussions, lunch, leave the office for the hotel, decide on dinner, come back to the hotel room, do a quick recap of the day and then write on our blog!. Time really does fly! We are already on day 5! Where is the time going?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At least I can say we did accomplish a lot today, we finished our Scope of Work and also created a complete project plan with each person's deliverable and timeline. We are now pretty much focused on what we want to achieve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We decided to take a chance and go back to the India Restaurant (Dhaba) that was closed the week prior and thankfully it was open! It was actually pretty busy! I guess Colombian like Indian Food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, I can understand why, the food was delicious! Now we just have to try and stay awake after eat all that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Sanjay (Client) also invited us to his house for dinner with his family. Which was really great. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> He and his wife (Marcella) were such wonderful hosts and so welcoming, we ended up staying and chatting until 11pm! Yikes! We enjoyed the company so much we ignored the fact the we had to leave our hotel at 5:30am the next morning to catch a flight to Cartagena with the whole team.. It was a good evening with great company..</span><br />
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Team Solehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869021123609597186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018424834743720942.post-64124590946327833672015-10-09T14:44:00.004-07:002015-10-09T14:45:36.925-07:00Day 4 - Mentor's Day @ SOLE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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about owing to the brainstorming session last evening. I guess it has
gotten everyone's minds running overtime about the things which SOLE has the
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Today, we also had
additional support - our mentor Ulf Brackmann decided to spend the entire day
with us at SOLE (because he felt this project is really cool B) . Ulf is from Germany
and was a part of the Fundacion Capitol project last year at Colombia Social
Sabbatical - 2014. He passionately
advocates the SAP CSR Strategy and represented the SAP CSR team this time in
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crashes, slow performance and Fati has this smug look - "Ha Ha, I told u so"</span></div>
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Team Solehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869021123609597186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018424834743720942.post-29946532670318269802015-10-08T17:35:00.000-07:002015-10-08T17:35:19.652-07:00Day 3 - Brainstorming Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pardon the tardiness.. Yesterday was hectic, I couldn’t stay
awake past 10pm to write a blog.. but here’s a summary of how the day was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">First of all, Rene, our Gym addict didn’t got to the gym in
morning. SHOCKING! He makes us all look bad..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was a good day! The 1<sup>st</sup> half of the day was
dedicated to Facebook and Youtubing…. I am not implying that we were not
working .. Ahem !! Actually the real reason is we were trying to increase
traffic on the SOLE facebook page. We sent e-mails and invited our friends to
go on the SOLE FB page to like their page and also wrote an e-mail comment to
the SAP FB page to promote SOLE. Half a day was dedicated to Social Media and
working with Sebastian (The social media, online marketing guru). We started
the day with 961 likes and by the end of the day we have over 1000 likes! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then of course it was time for lunch, we decided we wanted
to have Indian food for dinner so we walked around looking for the restaurant.
After walking for about 20mins, we got there only to find that is was closed
for the whole WEEK! Then we walked to an
Italian restaurant and the wait was for over 30mins. What do we do?? We had to quickly find something as we were
due in the office for our brainstorming session with the whole SOLE Team. So we
settle for a little lunch place. food was so so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The 2<sup>nd</sup> half was also very productive. We had a
brainstorming session with the SOLE team (Felipe, Sanjay, Juan Pablo – AKA
Dumpa and Sebastian). Where do we go from here? How do we get there? Who do we
work with? What have we learned so far? Like I said, pretty good session. Very informative and so much enthusiasm from
everyone… I love it and can’t wait for tomorrow!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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outfits but no success so we went to dinner instead. Really cool seafood
restaurant called 69. I am still scratching my head at the name. After such a
long day, I decided I was going to call it a day and not write a blog. :-)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Team Solehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869021123609597186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018424834743720942.post-43203452219929311062015-10-06T20:52:00.002-07:002015-10-08T17:39:26.268-07:00Day 2 - Planning & Exploring Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I might have forgotten to mention
yesterday that our host clients provided us with a taxi cab to pick us up in
the morning and also to drop us off in the evening. So after a quick breakfast,
our cab driver arrives at 8:30am to take us to the office. By the way, Divya and
Rene are not exactly morning people so this is a bit early for them, but I think by
the end of this assignment, I would convert them to morning people… We’ll see…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We arrived a bit earlier than
9am, so we had to wait a few minutes to be let into the building. Hmm, I think
we just didn’t press the buzzer hard enough!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our SAP Mentor, Ulf, and the
Pyrexa team (Amy, Maia and Liza) also arrived at the SOLE office about the same
time to observe our meetings and interactions with our clients and how the
project was progressing.. (Thanks guys!). I hope we impressed them with our conversations and progress<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Upon their departure, the team
really got into the swing of things and the questions started flying in all
directions and of course, from 1 answer more questions come up… Wait, did we
just do a SOLE session?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tatiana (SOLE team member) brought us some snack to try. A fruit that we, of course, haven't tried called Granadilla. Colombia has such huge variety of fruits! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After our morning session with
Sanjay, we were left alone to brainstorm and start planning how, where and what
direction we want to go with this project and how we can really maximize our
time with SOLE and present the best possible results! From the Analyst
(Fatimah) to the Developer (Divya) to the Project Manager (Rene) there was a
lot of head scratching, head shaking and lots and lots of conversations… off to
a good start, right? At this point, the natives (me especially) were getting restless, so we had to break for lunch.. Here comes the hard part.. where do we go for lunch? We walked around in the </span>neighborhood<span style="font-family: inherit;"> around the office and found a cafeteria with a lunch buffet for a pretty good price, but unfortunately not enough choices to choose from so we all ordered the vegetarian meal. Divya is convinced she is going to make us all vegetarians by the end of the trip.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the end of the work day, we came back to the hotel and got ready for our Tuesday group round up for updates on all projects, discuss challenges, risks and how we can help one another with our projects..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Session finished at 8pm and we all went to dinner at Crepes and Waffles (my 3rd time in 4 days!), of course I can't complain as everything is so good here..We finally said goodbye to Amy and Maia (Pyxera Global Project Managers) who are returning back to Washington DC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With that, I will sign off for the day... another long day but very productive..</span><br />
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Team Solehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869021123609597186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018424834743720942.post-30897910934889885862015-10-05T21:02:00.001-07:002015-10-08T17:41:48.592-07:00Day 1 - Official Start of Project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We just came back from our 1st official day as Consultants with the non profit organization we were assigned to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our day started with early breakfast at our hotel and a drive to the SAP Colombia office where we met all the 4 organizations that the sub-teams will be working with. They are SOLE Colombia, Genesys, Fundacion Capital and Proyectar Sin Fronteras. These organizations are doing great work within Colombia in both education, micro-financing, sustainable organic farming and youth empowerment. After each organization's presentation, the consultants for each sub-team supporting the organizations also introduced themselves to everyone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our sub-team of 3 will be working
with an organization called SOLE (Self Organized Learning Environments) Colombia (<a href="http://www.solecolombia.org/" target="_blank">http://www.solecolombia.org/</a>). This
organization is an innovation in education using information and communications
technology to create a school in the cloud The SOLE concept was developed by Sugata Mitra in India. SOLE Colombia believes in the
future of learning spreading through the use of large scale SOLE methodology in
every corner of Colombia.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the intro sessions and team presentations, all teams went off with their respective clients to kick off our projects. We went to the SOLE office and got to meet more SOLE team members then headed out for lunch, where we spoke in Spanglish :-). Great effort from everyone in breaking down language barriers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Upon our return to the office we spent the rest of the afternoon with Sanjay (Director) for an overview of SOLE and also to go over our assignment as consultants. It is so amazing what they have been able to achieve in the last couple of years as an organization. </span><br />
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Team Solehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869021123609597186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018424834743720942.post-67079449963172474852015-10-05T04:44:00.000-07:002015-10-05T04:44:47.282-07:00Day 1 - Team SOLE<u>10/05/2015</u><br />
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Forgive the slight delay in posting this. Still trying to figure this blog thing out :-)<br />
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Fatimah here, yesterday was our the official 1st day of our assignment and we've definitely gotten off to a great start! We had orientation most of the day and took a lunch break and did a quick walk around the neighborhood to know the area.<br />
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Lunch was at a restaurant called Crepes & Waffles (http://crepesywaffles.com.co/). This is a restaurant known for hiring only single women and "women in need" (AKA female head of households). Talk about women empowerment!<br />
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And of course an intro to the neighborhood and some very important facilities to know in the area. Pharmacy - check! Laundry - check! Supermarket - check! Gym - check! As we got back to the hotel, there were two guys from Starbucks giving us free coffee! Who says no to free Colombia Coffee? Even I had a couple of sips and I am not even a coffee person..<br />
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