Patience is a virtue...

Yesterday was a day which required much patience. Of course they day began by drawing up the plan of tasks and activities we intended to accomplish by the end of week to ensure that we were meeting our interim project deliverables - a very proactive activity indeed. This type of planning is reassuring for type A's like me and also provides me great pleasure in being able to check off those "completed" items. It's an important activity (yes, a form of validation)...and I will even go so far as to add things to be list that I did by chance only so I can cross them off the list....I know there are others out there like me but likely too shy to admit it....in any case the main point I want to make is that yesterday we didnt accomplish anything we set out to. Everything we planned did not happen, things we didnt expect to happen happened and at the end of the day I felt somewhat frustrated. I had to reflect on the days events and think about the cultural differences and remind myself that I really needed to take things in stride. After a good work out, an inpromptu "evening meeting", playing a killer game of Euchre the night ended well. Dan and Beth were skunked 10 - nil by Sandip and I .....how sweet!

PS - all but 2 of the team is trained up for Euchre....and the TA's from the University want to learn how to play....this is good!