I had a business trip in Ein El Sokhna, 100 KM to the east of Cairo. I shared the room with my friend Mahmoud. The resort was excellent with friendly and helpful staff, golf areas, golf cars for moving within the resort, singers with perfect performance, GYM with good equipments, tidy and well-equipped rooms. However, nothing is perfect. The beach is quite far from the rooms and the lobby. There is no water activities/sports to do on the beach. Swimming in their beach is not very enjoyable to many since the depth saturates at ~120 cm. The resort is very empty. We could hardly find two/three other rooms busy. Also, it's far from any other place in Ein Sokhna, making it kind of boring as soon as you get used to the places and activities in the resort.
We spent most of the first day in meetings. Then we had lunch in the excellent restaurant of the resort. We enjoyed the variety, presentation and deliciousness of the buffet so much. Enough to say that selection of the resort was due to recommendation for the restaurant's cheif. After that, we had a number of in-doors team building activities. Then we moved to the beach and practiced more team building activities. In one of the activities, my manager and I were inter-connected by two ropes, and the goal was to get our freedom. I'm not sure which skill is developed by this game, but at least it was fun.
I can't remember the last time I played soccer; it must be a very long-time ago. After dinner, the younger generation of employees got a ball, put the rocks marking the goal boundaries, and let fun begin. As you may guess, I'm not a good (not even a medium) soccer player. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the time so much. It had such a great impact on my morale. It made me feel younger. It made me feel free. I have to find some time for practicing on a regular basis. It wasn't long after playing soccer that I fell asleep.
The next day, I woke up late. My legs muscles were begging me to stay on the bed, but I had to catch the meetings. Fortunately, this time meetings lasted till 2:30 PM only, leaving a couple of free hours before our bus leaves. In a matter of ten minutes, nine of us were already in the swimming pool. It took us more ten minutes to have 18 colleagues fighting to score the ball in the opponent's goal. Water polo is such a cool sport, although it's easy to turn into a fight.
It took us an hour from the resort gates to Carreffour-El-Maadi. And more than an hour from Carreffour-El-Maadi to Cournish-El-Maadi, the destination of our bus. Go Cairo go!
We spent most of the first day in meetings. Then we had lunch in the excellent restaurant of the resort. We enjoyed the variety, presentation and deliciousness of the buffet so much. Enough to say that selection of the resort was due to recommendation for the restaurant's cheif. After that, we had a number of in-doors team building activities. Then we moved to the beach and practiced more team building activities. In one of the activities, my manager and I were inter-connected by two ropes, and the goal was to get our freedom. I'm not sure which skill is developed by this game, but at least it was fun.
I can't remember the last time I played soccer; it must be a very long-time ago. After dinner, the younger generation of employees got a ball, put the rocks marking the goal boundaries, and let fun begin. As you may guess, I'm not a good (not even a medium) soccer player. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the time so much. It had such a great impact on my morale. It made me feel younger. It made me feel free. I have to find some time for practicing on a regular basis. It wasn't long after playing soccer that I fell asleep.
The next day, I woke up late. My legs muscles were begging me to stay on the bed, but I had to catch the meetings. Fortunately, this time meetings lasted till 2:30 PM only, leaving a couple of free hours before our bus leaves. In a matter of ten minutes, nine of us were already in the swimming pool. It took us more ten minutes to have 18 colleagues fighting to score the ball in the opponent's goal. Water polo is such a cool sport, although it's easy to turn into a fight.
It took us an hour from the resort gates to Carreffour-El-Maadi. And more than an hour from Carreffour-El-Maadi to Cournish-El-Maadi, the destination of our bus. Go Cairo go!
2 comments:
The article was very nice as usual.
I attended several team building activities. I just wonder why the event administrator didn't explain the moral of every activity after finishing them.
May he explain but you didn't get it :)
Actually he did so in some, but not all of them.
Thanks for passing by, bro.
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