Saturday 24th

After a reasonable sleep, I wrote yesterdays blog, got dressed and headed to breakfast. This was typical of Asian hotels with options of eggs and fried western food, Asian food, fruit, cereal, and juice, although the range was smaller than some other hotels I have stayed in.

The first speaker today was Simon on NLP. It was interesting and he gave some information on it in his first session and then did a workshop with a brave volunteer. She had a goal of having her own fashion business and he took her through some visualisation exercises and a timeline. It seemed to have a positive effect.






After another tea break, Bjorn, the director of small National Mensas (ie everyone except the US and UK) talked about Mensa and the future. He first explained how Mensa was organised internationally and then we workshopped some ideas of Mensa in 25 years.

At lunch the chairmen from  the different countries and Bjorn sat together (at the suggestion of Sherman from China) and talked about issues each of us faced. This was also productive. There seems to be some commonality of problems but also ones that are particular to each country.

After lunch was a session on Past lives in one room and a Korean game in the other. I decided that this was the time to look for somewhere to photocopy our brocure for the Australian gathering and after wandering around a bit found a polace that would do it for a reasonable price and also was able to put in a sim card. I had tried to buy one last night but you need you passport and mine was in the safe in my room.

When I got back to the seminar, I checked out the Korean game. Even if they hadn't all been talking (shouting) in Korean I don't think I could follow it.

There was a third room where they were holding a Mind Challenge - a series of puzzles. I decided to give this ago after the break and skipped a session on Financial intelligence. I managed to finish in under 50minutes although 90 was allowed.