Today is Monday, 11:35 PM. I'm still not tired. The weekend in Canoa Quebrada really helped me. But my skin is burning.
"The coast southeast of Fortaleza) has many fine beaches, a lot of them backed by dunes, but is increasingly developed and built up. It's not until you reach the environs of Canoa Quebrada, 140km from the city, that the coast starts to regain its natural majesty. Once a tiny village cut off from the world by its huge, pink sand dunes and beloved of early hippie travelers, Canoa Quebrada today has shifted towards a more family-oriented beach spot, and it's a favorite destination of daily van tours from Fortaleza. But the craggy, eroding sand cliffs and the large dune expanses still lend Canoa that elemental, otherworldly feel for which it's famous. With numerous good pousadas and restaurants, and varied outdoor activities easily available, it's an enjoyable spot to relax for a few days." (Lonely Planet - Brazil, 2013).
On Sunday, usually Brazilian families are on the beach. All together. So why not to adapt to the local traditions? We did and it was a wonderful weekend full of fun. We're also a kind of a family now :) The Canoa Quebrada is amazing. Hippies found a really nice place for living. The place where you can see activists fighting against drugs and after twenty meters a guy selling jewelry and enjoying his joint right in the street, the one of three streets in Canoa Quebrada. The place where the beach bars are open from 1AM! Yes, that's the time when the night life really starts. The place where you can buy Havaianas in the each shop. And a place where you can meet Wandoo, beach bar manager, visiting Czechoslovakia for last ten years.
But, the second week of our assignment already started and we had to go to the work. In the morning we prepared additional questions to the customer. I'm glad I'm in the team with Christine, IBM consultant. She deals with external clients on daily basis. We were finally able to clarify our scope of work in the afternoon. This was the goal for today crucial to define next steps on our way of developing business incubator. We also offered to the IFCE the presentation of IBM, our countries similar to the one we delivered to the high school on last Friday. This would be more mature because the IFCE's students are little bit older. We met several students today in the IFCE campus and they're really curious about IBM. Hopefully, the IFCE will be able to arrange a meeting with students. We also offered a meeting to the incubated companies. We may gain more knowledge about incubation process and they may have a connection and further contact with IBM, so both sides may benefit. It was a productive day at work again.
Most of us finished the day at the fish market, fresh fish grilled together with cassava fries and after that, with and ice cream at famous 50 Sabores.
Tomorrow is a free day again but in the morning we will prepare the structure of the SOW to be able to present it to the customer on Wednesday.
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