February 1, 2007 Thursday

Jenny Leaves for New Zealand

Tonight, I’m off to the biggest adventure I’ve ever had – Seagate’s ECO Challenge. My company has allowed me to take part in a great experience – 4 days of high-powered training followed by a day-long team adventure race. I, and my four teammates; Joel Drewes, Torsten Voll, Tommy Cheung and Shariff Sarman will hike, run, bike and row through the mountains of New Zealand, near Queenstown. I have been training for 3 months to get ready and tonight I am on a 13-hour flight over the Pacific ocean with several other Seagate employees. There will be over 200 of us in all from all over the world. We’re divided into 5-person teams to take on this challenge all to learn about teamwork and leadership. It is definitely going to be the most physically challenging thing I have ever done but that’s just the beginning. I will learn how to work with people I’ve only emailed, learn how to lead and take leadership and most of all, learn how to succeed because we work as a team. I am STOKED! I feel ready though I’m sure I don’t fully know what I’m getting into.

The Team

From Shariff:

JENNY - REALLY A TEAM CAPTAIN and will never 4get esp you. You made us climb tree on the first day to be part of the family/team - TRUST !
TORSTEN - IRON MAN - always giving hands to our team members - HEALHTY CONFLICT !
TOMMY - BRAVEHEART - even with cramps we made it to the end - COMMITMENT !
JOEL - GODFATHER - pushing us all the way till the finish line - ACCOUNTABILITY !
OUR TEAM - TAOWAIRUA - spirit warriors are champions - RESULTS !

And from the team:
SHARIFF- THE MACHINE! - keeps going, never seems to tire and always there to give great ideas! - THE POSSIBLE!

The Race!

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