MAD

I haven't blogged in a while because I spent the last week on a course at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. Sweden is up there somewhere next to Finland and Norway and Switzerland is that green spot in the middle of the yellow at the bottom, next to France. The week was tedious, talking about telecoms 24/7. I know I’m in this industry but could I at least have a break? I learnt a lot though, got a great overview and did several use cases so it was good in that way. The weekend was even more interesting. First of all, Friday night, I went to club called MAD. And that’s exactly what it was…MAD. Three floors of MADNESS and MAD techno music, some of which I liked. The IMD course was designed for the program I am on and so all my 21 colleagues were there. All are from various parts of the world. It was a fun night. I had several out of body experiences, looking at the scene and saying this would never go down in Bacchus...WHAT! I would be jamming to 'this is why I’m hot, this is why I’m hot' or 'Yeparipa SAMBORIBOBO' not 'boom boom boom boom boom boom with no particular lyrics. Lord the things I have to do as a global worker.

The next day I did some touristy things. I went to see a castle in Montreux.....Chateau de Chillion, an hour away from Lausanne. It has quite an interesting history.

Then I went to Geneva, also an hour away from Lausanne and actually where the airport is, so it was convenient to catch my flight the next night. I spent the rest of the weekend there with an awesome Senegalese lass, K, who I met through my friends back home in Nigeria (I miss you guys :)). We decided to watch a movie then go for drinks that evening. We ended up walking around the whole of Geneva ( I have never walked as much as I did that entire week) looking for a cinema showing an interesting movie in English, everything was in French even the English movies and series on TV had voice overs. You should have heard the voices for Rachael and Ross in Friends. We finally found one showing La Faille...Fracture I think its called in English. Anthony Hopkins was really cute in the movie oh lollll! We moved on to a bar called Duplex and yes the music was fantastic. I also met K's friends and these girls are really different from Nigerian girls. There was no form of posing oh, see us getting down like there was no tomorrow. Loved it! Its all love my naija gals.

You guys, there is a sexy Swedish guy in my group oh. God forbid if any one of my colleagues reads this. I deny it in advance people. The boy is hot…WHAT! But see we from other countries moved to Sweden while the Swedish peeps have gone on to their countries for the 6 months. I will only get to see him whenever we get together like this for courses during the year. The professor told us that a study was done and the results indicated that students paid attention during he first day of class and then got more distracted as the days went by. He said by the fourth day, students paid attention for only about 10 mins before they started taking flights of fancy and daydreaming about their wildest fantasies. See me saving this boys life and him being eternally grateful to me looking at me with his adoring blue eyes. The professor was so right! And he actually mentioned that after I had had a series of daydreams. I was like, so I’m normal…its been researched.

Anyhoo, I am back in good old Sweden…Got back at 1am last night due to delayed flights from Geneva and the connecting flight… and I must say, I missed my quiet studio. I'm leaving work early today because I am one person and I am tired.