Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-07-28 10:28:12 - Graham Ellis
Perhaps this is the "picture postcard" that you'll expect to see from a trip far from the UK - and indeed, it's a picture taken in Guadalajara yesterday, as I took an easier day that usual to recover from the jetlag, catch up on some sleep, and also went across to the place I'll be training to meet the folks and check that everything is on order. With a group of around 30 delegates, and with a translation service converting my English into Spanish, this is not a 'run of the mill course'. Most of the delegates are a new intake who only started work yesterday (and I sat and observed body language and interaction as they were taking through things like where to park in the neighbourhood), with a major part of the company's project being to upskill people, sponsored by the Mexican government, rather than the final products. The training room is also new; it was nearing completion yesterday - painting and carpetting still being done in the breakout rooms, computers covered in plastic and being started / having Lua installed. So this will be an "opening course" for the room - hopefully there will be few or no major teething troubles, but I know that the networking will be limited.
Another picture?
That's an image at random from the ones that I have uploaded (so I am presenting my HTML to cope with horizontal and vertical) which will change each time you come back. In some circumstances, I am caching to avoid too many reloads to a simple refresh may not illustrate the changes. But there are pictures of the area, the suburb we are situated in, the hotel room (you may wonder - I do this routinely to let us compare / look for ideas that we should or should not, must or must not borrow!), and a couple of the place and people where I'll be.
Perhaps this is the "picture postcard" that you'll expect to see from a trip far from the UK - and indeed, it's a picture taken in Guadalajara yesterday, as I took an easier day that usual to recover from the jetlag, catch up on some sleep, and also went across to the place I'll be training to meet the folks and check that everything is on order. With a group of around 30 delegates, and with a translation service converting my English into Spanish, this is not a 'run of the mill course'. Most of the delegates are a new intake who only started work yesterday (and I sat and observed body language and interaction as they were taking through things like where to park in the neighbourhood), with a major part of the company's project being to upskill people, sponsored by the Mexican government, rather than the final products. The training room is also new; it was nearing completion yesterday - painting and carpetting still being done in the breakout rooms, computers covered in plastic and being started / having Lua installed. So this will be an "opening course" for the room - hopefully there will be few or no major teething troubles, but I know that the networking will be limited. 
That's an image at random from the ones that I have uploaded (so I am presenting my HTML to cope with horizontal and vertical) which will change each time you come back. In some circumstances, I am caching to avoid too many reloads to a simple refresh may not illustrate the changes. But there are pictures of the area, the suburb we are situated in, the hotel room (you may wonder - I do this routinely to let us compare / look for ideas that we should or should not, must or must not borrow!), and a couple of the place and people where I'll be.