Well, it's been flat out at the moment. It's been back to good ol' powerpoint presentations and excel models and expert interviews ... though phone calls are very expensive here - something we take for granted back home. Even accessing the internet for an hour - the local call cost plus cost per minute over dialup - was well over $10 an hour. Yikes!
One thing about working with people who own their own business is how work/non-work lines are blurred. We're flying back to Maputo to speak to some experts tomorrow and then we're working all weekend - I'm even staying on their farm so we can crunch round the clock ...! But, despite my complaining, this is an excellent experience of what it's like to be an entrepreneur, of seeing how people with natural business intuition (and not necessarily classical business trianing) make decisions and just get stuff done (quite different to the middle management corporate world I'm used to). It actually gives me ideas about starting my own business one day (I'm presently deciding between yet another Asian karaoke parlour or a breakdancing coaching academy ... just kidding. It's definitely gonna be karaoke).
Oh well, at least there will be fresh bacon ... =)
Blessings
john
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