Phooning

Yesterday I was still taking it easy back home in Denmark. Today we are back in the pressure cooker and yesterday is only a faint memory. I barely landed in Lausanne yesterday before I went to work on the pile of emails that I use as my to-do list. It was in the early ours of the morning before I felt that I was just reasonable up to speed and could go to sleep. Today was the usual full speed schedule and the next four days are packed to the brim as well. Assignments, startup projects, carreer coaching, personal development initiative (PDI) and the regular class preparation. You name it and we have got it at the moment.

Professor James Henderson introduced the International Consulting Projects (ICP) today and asked us to state our preferences for the project. It was a bucket of very varied projects that was presented. Different industries, different tasks and different parts of the world, some very far away and others just around the corner. The ICP is the part of the year that I look most forward to.

The morning started in celebration, though. Rasmus Figenschou from Norway turned 30 on Monday and the class had prepared a special gift for him. Rasmus is a fan of 'phooning'. To phoon means to have your picture taken as you strike a pose like a runner in special places or under a particular set of circumstances. Here Rasmus shows how it should be done.



Rasmus has previously declared that his biggest 'phooning' dream is to have all 90 students phooning on the tables in the auditorium. So last week, while Vahid Khamsi lured Rasmus away, Henry Low [Singaporean] snapped the below picture. You can probably imagine Rasmus' reaction when the picture popped up on the screen in the auditorium today. It was great to kick off this period of heavy workload on a less serious note.