Its 15 degrees in Punta Arenas - Is it a sign?

This Morning in Punta Arenas it started like any other. It was still dark, it was cold and it was windy. I drove like a maniac to get to the Policia Internacional to be the first of the day at the office to hand in my visa application and had to wait while they were having their coffee. After that i sent the application full of letters saying how great i am, and of course the necessary documentation. On the way back i noticed the thermometer in the car....and can you believe it was 15 degrees C. That's summer weather!

Anyway, back to work. Carine arrived. She arrived on Saturday after experiencing Murphy´s Law first hand, but she was still happy to be here. After some introduction talks, we have defined some of the things she will be doing for us. She is an HR person, so we hope to take advantage of this knowledge. For a start i have now got 4 applicants for the PW coordinator position. One from Chile, one from Colombia, one from Brazil and one from Belgium.....you might know him......

Based on this Carine and I are working towards a profile which we will then compare to the presented curriculum's. The idea is to make a standardized process for this. Carine will be taking this forward and then at the end of her stay we hope to have some kind of HR plan. Her presence should also help us develop our roles better, and define the minimum required HR at organizational level. To this end we now have an HR department!

We are busy looking through the business plans of SERCOTEC. There are 479 of them....so that's a lot! Initially there are some innovative ideas, but most are classical in terms of what product the entrepreneur wants to develop. There are some ideas from Williams but for ethical reasons Marnix will evaluate them!

We recently also received an email from CORFO. They are interested in talking to us about the project that was taken forward by the MF team. Ill keep you informed.

On a personal note, Andres is busy packing his stuff as he and murielle are moving to Santiago on Friday. This will be the end of an era in which he put a lot of effort into doing things for the people of Puerto Williams. I think its a shame he is leaving, but i can also understand that it may be time to move on.

On an even more personal note, Alejandra is also in Puerto Williams and she is also packing her things. Yes, she decided to close Hostal Coiron for good. This is also a shame, but she felt that she had reached an imaginary ceiling there. She couldn't do much else, so she preferred to try her luck in the same business but in Punta Arenas. Now we can also be together!