A Mozzie has been bothering me for 2 nights – and I finally got him today. Not only that he had invited 3 of his friends over to annoy me. They have now met the leadership book as well. It’s unusual to have them at this high altitude and as its winter here, the wrong time of year as well.
I found out the secret of the hot water – you need to have a bath about 7.30pm as there is water then, if you wait to 9.30pm, then its all gone. So I enjoyed a long soak in the bath, reading my book on Malachi.
The last few days have been hard for the students, as we have been looking at vision, vision killers, strategy, SWOT Analysis, Motivational theories (Maslow, Herzberg and Vroom). You are probably bored just reading this! However, it all came together well in the final session, when we did a case study on Nehemiah and considered all these things. They did the case study in groups and did very well, which shows they have grasped the basic concepts of these areas.
Tomorrow, I will be getting their assignments in, which was to write a Vision Statement for the College. My example was ‘empowering tomorrow’s church leaders today.’ The exams have been printed, and I am confident about them getting some good marks, I have dropped several hints as to what they need to study! They also have an oral exam, where they have to preach for 10 minutes on the strengths and weaknesses of a biblical leader.
The virus on their computer is quite serious, and will mean re-installing the operating system! Its because they have been using floppy disks between machines.
Everyone is friendly at the hotel, the waiter knows I have coffee and scrambled egg, and always makes me 2 pieces of toast, the other waiters also chat to me, and the receptionist calls me Mr Simon. The Duty Manager came and chatted to me the other day to check I was enjoying it.
Linda has been keeping in touch, although I did not appreciate a text at 1am saying good night! As it work me up – and I thought it was the alarm going off and so got up and started to get ready, only to look at the phone and discover it was 1am.