The day at work went surprisingly quickly. We had the EMEA AD/Exchange project team arrive in Landskrona for a two day meeting. They’re IT people working for different ASSA ABLOY companies around Europe that are part of a team that will coordinate a big project for the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) to do with IT stuff. The countries represented were England, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, France and Sweden, of course. I’d spoken with most of them on the phone and met a couple, but it was good to finally meet the others.
We had a long meeting that took most of the afternoon and, before you knew it, the end of the day had arrived. We all headed out to our evening activity – Curling. For those of you that didn’t watch the Winter Olympics, Curling is kind of like lawn bowls on ice. Instead of balls you slide these 20kg rocks down to a target at the other end and try to get closer than the other team. It was a lot of fun, even if we did look a little ‘special’.
How do you turn a bunch of IT geeks into studs? Make them wear super cool helmets!
I’m happy to say my team (Jens, myself, Guido, Tero and Anders) won the night. We celebrated our victory with a buffet dinner and some Swedish beer. Niklas had organised a Swedish quiz for all the international visitors. Thirteen questions, multiple choice. I came second to the Finn, but given that he speaks Swedish and lives just across the water I reckon I did pretty well.
As a going away present I got given a Swedish flag, some ‘warning – moose ahead’ road sign stickers and a cheese slicer. The cheese slicer might sound strange, but the Swedes use them almost every day.
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