Exams

Mpumi, our Programs Director in South Africa/my next-door neighbor is doing a masters program at the local university.  The whole month of November is exams month here.  It's kinda crazy how everyone has exams all month.  So many people go into hibernation for so long.  They think it's crazy that the states put everything into a week.  I think they're crazy to spread out that stress so long.

Anyways,  Mpumi was taking some class on teamwork or team building or something.  For his final exam he asked our office to bring in 8 people to participate in his final exam.  I went with Jess, Bej, Ntombie, Vovo, Nowie, Ngwenya, and Bere.  We really had no idea what we'd be doing, but we showed up at NMMU at 8:30 am to be greeted by some people with coffee and scones.  We then moved to a different room where a professor explained to us what would be happening.

We spent the next 2.5 hours participating in a team-building workshop.  We were given a scenario: we were members of some company forced to partake in this.  Mpumi and 2 other women ran the workshop like some consulting firm.  It was pretty interesting - not a bad way to spend the morning.  It was interesting to hear some issues people that I work with have in regards to their work environment.  Afterwards we were calling each other out on coming out of character.  Oops.  Mumpi was glad though that we helped him out and promised us special treatment at his graduation party in April.