Monday, April 30, 2007
Nice gig if you can get it...
If I ever whine about my job, someone smack me. Every job definitely has it's challenges whether it's a butcher, baker or candle stick maker, but every job hoepfully also has its upside (if any one reading this doesn't agree...call me and I'll help you find a new job). Honestly, my job is pretty good. I never could have dreamed back when I was causing trouble in Grade 9 at Northern High School that I could ever end up where I am. I have a great job...I can't lie. Work is work, that's why they call it that--otherwise, they'd call it a day at the beach. Turns out that in my current job, often it is a day at the beach! In early February, we launched a couple of new partners in Mauritius. I didn't even know where it was, other than it is the equivalent of the Caribbean for South Africans. (FYI...it's a small island East of Madigascar...the big island to the east of southern Africa. And this is what it looks like: 
Mauritius has a history of people from India being brought to the island hundreds of years ago as slaves and the Indian culture is still pretty prevalent there. We did a driving tour across the island and saw some of that. Below you will see a statue of the Shiva...absolutely mammoth...on the way to the Little Ganges.
They also have a ton of tea plantations that are just there by the side of the road as well as sugar cane by the acre:
Mauritius has a history of people from India being brought to the island hundreds of years ago as slaves and the Indian culture is still pretty prevalent there. We did a driving tour across the island and saw some of that. Below you will see a statue of the Shiva...absolutely mammoth...on the way to the Little Ganges.
They also have a ton of tea plantations that are just there by the side of the road as well as sugar cane by the acre:
So, this is my life...some of the time. I really can't complain..and if i do, smack me!
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