Bramley Famli

For ‘Take a Girl Child to Work Day‘ (supported and sponsored by Cell C) this year I asked Carli if she’d like to come with me. Jordi came with me last year (we went to Cape Town) and it was a school day. Jordi doesn’t take school off for anything.

Sun International (Katie) hosted the two of us this year for a meeting I had with them. Katie really looked after Carli. A sweet bag, hot chocolate, lots of paper, thick pens. What else would a 6 year old want?

One of the interesting things to me, was that Carli was quite taken by the posters depicting the values of Sun International. They had them in the parking garage. On our way in she asked me to tell her what they were, and on the way out she wanted to know them again. Except this time she very accurately told me what they were based on our conversation on the way in. So well done SI, you’ve done a good job. Carli got them, based purely on the pictures. I reckon that’s quite an achievement.

And thanks Katie for hosting us, and making Carli feel so welcome and special. It meant a lot to her. It meant a lot to me. And hopefully one day when she’s a power-house in business, it’ll mean a lot to our country and to women everywhere. After-all, isn’t that what ‘Take a Girl Child to Work Day‘ is all about?

On the way to the meeting we stopped at Vida e for some Hot Chocolate. Click here for the two pics.

Inspired by Cell C’s ‘Take a girl child to work day’, Jordan joined me for a day in the life of her dad yesterday. This being a two day work week, and most people I get to work with off for a very long-weekend, it was the perfect opportunity to put something appropriate together.

I wanted it to be special and so phoned Donna Barnes of BoE Private Clients, and asked her if we could shift one of our monthly meetings to this week, and whether she’d be OK with me bringing Jordan along? Of course Donna being Donna it was a ‘go’.

And what a wonderful day it was. Apart from simply being able to spend such a special day with Jordi (the meeting was in Cape Town), she got to sit in on my meeting with Donna, took a trip to Donna’s desk and learned about her job in Communications, had lunch at the WaterFront, went to the foot of Table Mountain, up to Signal Hill, down to Camps Bay, shopped like mad, and had incredible yet simple conversations with my daughter.

A day I will certainly repeat over and over again while I am able.

If you’d like to see some of the pics, click here