Hello,

I am still waiting for some pictures from this week, but thanks a lot anyway because it was awesome. When I arrived in France, I was really tensed and tired because of all the work I was doing and this week helped me to recharge my batteries.

I spent probably too much money in restaurant and in alcohol but my stomach needed it. I will take care of it a little more from now on in Toronto. I have already found a great place near my home to eat great hamburgers. Yeah !!! (Arf...)

Here are several pictures from Canada, and in particulary, from Loblaw the company I am working at.

This one has been taken during the last team meeting before the January go-live: They gave us ugly orange tea-shirt to tell everyone that we were a great team. Yeah. I have never wear an uglier tea-shirt (and now, I am realizing that I am wearing it again as a pygama. What a shame!!!)

SAP team in orange

This one has been taken during the store manager annual meeting. It was freaking huge. The meeting occured in the main lobby and more than 300 stores managers attended. There was also a band playing the song created expecially for this event and the CEO chearing every body so they can have good results in 2010.

Store managers

Finaly, this one is the picture of 2 girls who were working in front of me. It was a day dedicated to ugly jersey and they were perfect. Danielle (the blond girl) was wearing her dad's jersey. It was made by her mother and a lot of different Looney Tunes were represented. It was really hard to be concentrated on what I was working during this day.

Danielle and Hilary

That's it. All of this to say that working here is a pleasure even if I feel like the team spirit is less important than in France. Here in Canada, people at work don't take time to eat. They eat in front of their laptop and that doesn't help to build a team. Here, all is about leaving before 5pm ; ).

See you soon and I hope I will post some pictures taken in France.