Deliverables become clearer, opportunities arise

Tuesday all day was spent to refine the Executive Overview presentation by myself, Michel focussed on translations into French for the country reps we met last Thursday. To be honest, I am not sure this translation effort is worth it, as Sundara will not be able to provide any consulting or PM services that he plans to sell ... given the fact he does not speak / understand french, nor the french guys speak english. Dead end lead in my view, but hey ... the men would like to go ahead and pursue so ... meaning I have not been able to convince them otherwise.

During lunch time, we visited local printshops to inquire for cost to print brochures and business cards. These two items have to be created, as they are out of stock or non-existing at present time. The hotel had suggested a printshop nearby, and the address ... yes that is not used here. So we got Indian directions: find xyz (we could not understand what they were saying); continue until police station, turn right at lights. Of course, somebody else has a somewhat different view, so we collected 3 more directions, and surprisingly we found the place by ourselves by combining all hints & tips. It only was a ±2kms walk in 43° ; quite a challenge actually. But ... we got a pretty good offer -after we explained it was meant for a local business :-) - so we seriously consider to both invest a bit to get the Janani Group back on track with some tangible company items.
On our way back to the hotel, we found a nice Indian restaurant (is called Maks ...something, but can be found using Indian directions: passed the mosque, left side of the street, before police station reach; 3 steps up). We had a good meal there, for 100 Rs each.

Back in the hotel, we learned Sundara had passed bye to visit us -while we had asked for an IBM working day-, so instead he came bye in the evening. He entered while we were having dinner in the hotel resto to exchange some files we both had been working on. It was an early dinner (7.30-8 pm) as our team meeting to exchange all projects started again @ 8 pm. We continued until about 10, then I merged some files to be ready for the next mornings invite --we were kindly informed at 7.50 pm the next a meeting was scheduled for and that the Exec overview file should be in ready to use state @ 9.30 the next morning. Every day a surprise I would say :-)