vblog: meet catherine

Catherine was our fun and jovial teammate from China.  Catherine blew me away one of the first days we were in the UAE, as she started telling me the historical significance of some monument in a square in San Francisco that I'd never heard of.  Me and Karen just looked at each other and shrugged our shoulders - what did we really know about China?   Turned out it was a theme.  Catherine was incredibly well-read as well and talked to Karen about Shakespeare and a variety of other English authors.  Living in China has clearly not limited her knowledge.

Catherine was game for taking in as much of the UAE as she could possibly pack into our 4 weeks.  Even when the rest of us were tired and starting to fade, she had the courage to take the bus by herself to Sharjah and go to the world's most expensive hotel, Burj al Arab in Dubai, simply because they were on her Must Do list.  She swam about a million laps in the hotel pool daily and was always snapping hundreds of photos.  By the end of week 2, I think she had something like 6 gigs of photos - our Dropbox (online photo sharing for the team) quivered in its boots when Catherine got online.  When you see her in photos, she is invariably holding up 2 fingers in a victory sign or spreading her arms out wide, showing how much she lives her life for all it's worth.  When I told her right toward the end that I was feeling really sad about our experience coming to an end, Catherine told me you can't be sad about the end but be happy about the next thing coming.  Not a bad way to live... 

Here's Catherine...  #ibmcsc uae