I have been counting down the days until the end of my mentorship with the International Cultural Consortium. Do not get the wrong idea here, it is not that I am ready to be finished with it and move on. In fact, I will not know what to do with myself in the evenings once my MBA studies are over. The reason, however, that I am in countdown mode is because I have to complete 200 hours by no later than the first of December. At the start of today, I was at 163.5 hours. This gives me, by my math anyway, sixteen days to complete 36.5 hours, or an average of 2 hours 17 minutes per night. My current pace of two hours is thus not going to cover the necessary ground. I will need to pick it up slightly.
I am not all that worried about it because some of the remaining sixteen days are days I will have off: a couple of Saturdays and Sundays, then there is Thanksgiving one week from Thursday and the day after that. With the continuing pandemic, my family will not be traveling for holiday meet-ups, opting for a Zoom gathering. Plus I will still use my evenings towards looking up contacts, with other projects as they pop up. Yes, we are very close to the end, and yet there is still a lot of time and a lot left to be done, including reports that I will need to turn in for the class portion. I cannot wait to see what lies ahead during the “two-minute drill”.