Devs 310

So I went up north this weekend, and I have to say things are different there. Besides the fact that the people are taller and darker in general(its hotter, that must have something to do with it), they also don't speak english. I remembered what your comment last time on "its quite the task to accomodate english," and luckily I managed to improve my setswana since then and we managed to communicate in their language (despite dialect differences from the city and the north), it went quite well. It actually made me quite proud of myself, and you could see the tension fall when I spoke setswana. It all went really smoothly. The same goes for work, because I have to interview people from my organization, and donald the driver, he is more comfortable in setswana, and so if I could ask him my questions in setswana, and do it all in setswana, I can get more "juice" out of the interview, more "touchy, sentimental" stuff and less "I started working for Bofwa in 1997..." stuff. My mom is starting going to uganda for a workshop. My friend kabelo and I are going to be going nuts today preparing the resources she will take with her to the training, which is tomorrow. I made a master binder with allllllll sorts of resources (and made one for myself too because I see it as something that could apply to canada as well, and i'd like to keep open the door to trainings when i return). and a cd where all those resources are also on file should they need to be edited for context specific situations. Nobody has ever done that here...and this place has a pretty high turnover of staff..... so you could imagine with people coming and going, and taking resources and not returning them, quitting, or simply not doing a "follow up", where they show somebody what is what in terms of files and folders before leaving for good. Its quite chaotic. First the excel issues, and now this. I see this as very unsustainable and disorganized, and so I've made this intense training resource binder (to go with the manual im also working on), and it will be left with the CEO so it won't get lost in the piles of files and binders that are improperly stacked, and can be used by everyone who needs it. Nobody will have to say anymore, "do we have any handouts on communication skills?" Just check the binder, and return it to the CEO when you are done.