95% goes to Medan

Went to Medan for the first time with 95% to conduct two trainings for a group of very young, very switched on individuals who were on fire when we left. The city unlike Jakarta is less congested more languid in pace and well laid out, abit like Penang. 

We conducted the first part of the training in Brastagi, a highlands resort about 2 hours from the city of Medan. The harrowing drive up the narrow and winding trunk road revealed the edgy, underdeveloped countryside of North Sumatra. The Bataks live in these parts, their favourite cuisine- pig burnt in an open wood fire and sweet corn barbequed pretty much the same way. 

The hotel Sibayak was adequate and the helpful staff pretty much made up for any shortcoming. Training went like clockwork and I had the benefit of getting the very power and goodness of our trainers up close and very gruelling. I have never been more tired from a day's work and never happier. 

But the true happiness came from seeing the faces and the 'being' of the participants at the end of the second day. Awesome.