Spring is in the air, flowers are blooming, lambs are skipping onto dinner plates all over NZ and TimeZoneOne staff are excitedly planning adventures, mischief and mayhem in unsuspecting small NZ coastal towns.

 

TimeZoneSun, a team building experience like no other, bringing together special qualities found only in a college road trip, an infomercial and a high school musical. Only 5 weeks away this year’s team building experiment is in the top of the North Island of New Zealand. I’ve never been there before so I’m really looking forward to once again abandoning my loving husband and child and skipping off into the sunset with my co-workers, a vague itinerary in one hand and a gin and tonic in the other.

 

This year I’m feeling a tad guilty as my 3 year old toddler is not as co-operative as she was last year. Our efforts in raising a confident, self-assertive child, although well meaning, often back-fire on us. Lately we have the feeling that the only reason on those odd occasions she has fallen into line is because we out-number her. With me out of the picture for 5 days and nights poor Nick doesn’t stand a chance. 

 

Last year was my first TimeZoneSun, I made all the usual mistakes, I drank too much, resulting in car sickness, emotional instability and snapping at rather confused co-workers (sorry Brett). This year I’m looking forward to repeating it all again but with a bit more class.

 

TimeZoneSun, it’s a 5 day and night team building extravaganza. After day 3 some may consider going on to be too dangerous. Words like choreographed rhythmic gymnastics in stubby shorts would make most companies retreat. But TimeZoneOne’s creative team are made of sterner stuff. We continue on. Some of us may require a break stop to barf at the side of the road. Others may require a stop to purchase the latest NZ Naturalist to complete their summer outfit. The fun must and does continue. By day 5 we are exhausted. In the 5 days together we have laughed so much our faces are sore, frolicked in the sun so much we are red and freckled, climbed so many mountains that we long for the flat Christchurch terrain, and drank so much our livers have applied for asylum. And each year we look forward to doing it all again. And that’s why we will never end up like these guys.

 

 

    

 

     

 Happy, well adjusted, team member, Maria     

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