Mission Impossible; Actually Mission Possible.

I wanted to tell you about our strategy day....Considering I almost never relate to what I actually do 80% of the time (wel minus movies of course!)

We have two sort of Managers let’s call them M&L.

M&L were top secret about this strategy day, so only the day before (Friday) we were given our formal invites (via a DVD). On the DVD was a sort of James Bond Mission Impossible sort of theme with our mascot the Zebra and some cool James bond special effects to the Music of Mission Impossible.

On Saturday I reluctantly headed off to work. ON a Saturday!!

Dressed in jeans and takkies I assumed the funnest thing we could possibly do was have some famous person talk to us but BOY did they literally throw me overboard.

Next we were told the Gear, Combats, a towel, a toiletry bag and an evening dress.

And on Saturday at 7.30am we met at the headquarter, ie The Company.

So on this DVD was a soduko(a different one for each of us) and in the corner right hand corner was a number which sorted us into our secret mission groups.

Half sleepy we arrive at the head quarters, seated in an Auditorium in our secret agents teams.

So we all sitting in our groups and they start playing a clip on the screen in our Auditorium.

Its M&L dressed up in sunglasses and black coats and graphic designed like its a Bond movie and we given instructions like,

"Listen carefully, cause we dont repeat ourselves twice"

(oh so scary all serious like we burst out laughing),

"On level P1, there are taxis for each Secret Agent Group, with a taxi and a laptop. On the Laptop is your first mission, and the games starts NOW!!"

So like crazy people we all run, and there really are taxis and inside is the laptop, we switch it on (with instructions in an envelop), and its M&L again, all in black and white really going with the Secret Agent theme,

“Our mission is an aquatic one, where we need to swim to great depths, with sharks and pretty fish, there is a bouy that will save us to the next mission"

So we think ok it has to be the aquarium, so off we go.

We the first to arrive and then realize the other teams all start with different missions.

We see the COMPANY sign, run towards it and are ushered to the big tank.

A few weeks ago, our marketing person was looking for divers for an EGOLI advert, and even sent some people on a diving course. Little did we know they trained divers especially for this task, although they too weren’t informed of the days invent, a diver was placed in each team, and the task was not easy.

The diver got into a wet suit, got an oxygen tank and had to dive into the tank with SHARKS (with ugly big teeth). One of the aquarium divers went with them. In the tank they had to find our clue, which we figured had to be a key from the clues on the DVD.

Superman our diver was fearless and plunged in for the dive, finding the key shortly.

The key was a key to a locker at a Gym, Virgin, Active at the Point. With our laanie taxi driver Adenaan, off we go, breaking speed limits, we are on a mission, Mission Possible.

We get to the gym, and rush to the lockers, Alexia manages to find the clues, pictures of a place, familiar place, next to the Radison at the Waterfront!

We arrive and there is a boat,

a boat means there is water,

water means we could find a bouy.

All strapped up in life jackets we venture off into the ocean, blazing blaring, at a really fast speed we venture off.

We eventually find the bouy (Actually it got tangled in a small fishing boats line), and on the bouy is a rope and on the rope is a bottle and in the bottle is our next clue.

So off we go on our boat ride back to shore and we are handed a second CD, Mission One complete.

Off we go listening to the clues said very artfully by M&L.

“Wade through a lot of Crap from our clients”

They give us directions to a corner of two roads in Town and off we go. We all get out and we see nothing only a bag full oh uhmn crap. They cant seriously be seriously, but they were just that. Alam very gallantly starts going through the dirt and we find a paper with instructions.

Meanwhile Superman hears the public phone ring nearby and goes to answer it. The phonecall says, you have to run and you have to run now, no taking a taxi and off we dash like lunatics to directions on a piece of crappy paper leading us to opposite the Castle.

On the pavement is some guys with gum boots and torches and a ladder going down down down a ladder into the sewers.

We didn’t find the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles, but we did find our next clue after walking which felt like forever in the dark with huge gum boots in a sewer filled with cockroaches, and a tiny little light bobbing from our heads.

Mission Two complete.

Our next clue was handed by the “SEWER guys”

“Information is free and only cocts R8” M&L bellowed.

THE SATURDAY Argus!!

We find the next SECRET MISSION I in the classifieds section of the paper, hmmn the location of the SECRET party tonight can be found when we go to great heights at Culemborg?

You have got to be joking but we went on a helicopter ride, that was so cool and amazing, And on top of our COMPANY building we find the secret address of the secret party for the secret agents on a massive not so secret poster on our buildings roof.

That was so awesome but our day is not complete as yet.

We abseil off the half finished bridge in Town, we have a game of paintball shooting, and we have a Spiderwoman in our team when Shams gallantly climbs up the rock wall effortlessly.

And our final mission is to make money out of a R50, which leads us to the waterfront selling Pepsis! And Corder being very dashing and even selling ICE to make money !!

Off we head back to headquarters were we just hang out and talk a bit.

We flew, we were in and on the water, we abseiled down a bridge, we went below the ground, we climbed we did almost everything possible for us to do.

And the message was anything was possible (well that and some other businessy very private Company mattersJ top agent stuff of course)

In the eve we were dashed to a beautiful house in Camps bay (top Billing style) complete with those swimming pools were the waterfalls over on the sides.

We laughed, we ate and we danced us silly.

At one o clock I climbed in my bed, and NEVER would have imagined that they had planned ALL of that! I was impressed and wonder if they will be able to impress me again, after all when you knock the socks off me where else can they possibly go?

I have a new found respect for what boring-talk-talk-airy –flairy strategy days are like.

PS: Pictures to Follow