Expert training

So, I think it's about time to give another update from our situation in India right? We're half way through our trip for Bloom (I'll be going on holiday for a week as well after the work is done for Bloom), and I think we have a pretty good impression on how the trainings are going so far. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we started out with the CMS Superuser training as planned. Although we had to improvise on our dayplanning a bit, I think our goals for these days were met. The superusers having experience with the 1.2 version of the system actually helped a lot. So, on Thursday and Friday we got started with the expert training. We try to invite the users to open up and to feel free to ask any questions they have, which is having a good effect I think. Because of the language barrier, it's really great that our collegue from Bangalore has such a drive to train these people (actually he used to be a teacher). Even though he joined the project last-minute, he's been able to explain the application to the trainees in notime. Giving the training at the bridge camp is actually very good I think, because you're constantly surrounded what it's all about : those kids. Every time we come to work in the morning, there's all these kids calling our names and greeting us, it's quite funny and touching at the same time.

Yesterday we went to see the movie "Clash of the titans" in the Imax-theater here in Hyderabad. We took an autorickshaw to get there, but we had to stop halfway because the light of this lawn-mower had some issues.


After continueing our trip, we got out and walked the rest on the Necklace-road, which goes all around this beautifull lake with the Budha-statue in it. It actually looks a lot like the statue of liberty in New York, and it was really nice to see the lights over the water and the couples strolling on the streets. After arriving at the cinema, we naturally had a meal in the most famous fast-food franchise in the world (do I really need to write the M-word here?). The cinema actually looked more like a shopping mall that they just happen to place a cinema in than the other way around.