D-2 People of the Corridor
For all of you MAC fans … I was told last year there was just more than 10% of MAC users among the students , but this year its almost 30% of the incoming MBA class coming with a computer decorated with the illumined apple …
Vahid & Joe ... another ex-colleague from Shell ! Class is busy setting up the laptops and email accounts.
More interestingly - it was our first encounter with the other participants, their wives and kids who were all invited for lunch. There are people from all around the world - and a full contingent for the BRIC Countries (Brasil, Russia, India and China!) - but not more than 5 participants from any given country …so its an incredibly diverse group.
I found myself explaining several times that I am Swiss citizen, but from Iranian background, living until now in London, but working in Malaysia, and married to a German, who was actually born in Afghanistan. I really tried to make it as simple as possible but it was just confusing people even more … then I realised that there were many others that had such stories around me. … It reminded me of an analogy. If you see the world as a large house, and each country is a room, there are people in each of the rooms and occasionally they travel to the other rooms, but then go back to their own room. But I feel I dont belong to one room only, I am one of the people of the corridor …
PS: No progress with the readings … 
January 6th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Very interesting Vahid! Must be exciting!
January 6th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
It’s coooool!! Let me in the picture from next time!! ^^
January 8th, 2009 at 2:00 am
cool one. all the best with hanging out in the corridor!
January 10th, 2009 at 12:38 am
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