Wow, this place keeps me busy.

So it's been a few days since I've commented on here. My apologies to you if you happen to be reading this blog. It's been a hectic couple of days, and I feel as if I'm coming down with a sore throat - so please keep me in your prayers and positive thoughts as sickness right now would not be welcome at all.

My team is participating in a debate on globalization on Friday, so in our spare time we've had to be busy preparing for this session.

To explain the way these days work, essentially we have two classes a day. One runs from 8am until Noon and then another from 1pm until 5pm. The times vary occasionally, but for the most part that's it. Then we have the evening and the morning to do our readings for every class, work on our individual assignments, and meet as teams to do our team assignments. Every class has at least one major team assignment and one major individual assignment, plus minor assignments. We're doing four full-time classes, plus several other one-off sessions on related topics.

The result is a very full pace. We've already had one student burn out - although this must have been related to pre-session issues, since it's way to early for a session related burn out. Sometime next week maybe.

Today we received our Meyers-Briggs personality type instrument (MBTI) results back. This is the second time I've completed the MBTI, and I ended up with a slightly different result. For those who don't know, the MBTI places your personality along four different spectrums: Extrovert to Introvert (relating to your source of energy); Sensing to iNuitive (how you take information in); Thinking to Feeling (how you make decisions); and Judging to Perceiving (your lifestyle).

The result can be up to 16 different personality types, with the capital letters in the words above representing the type. The last time I did the MBTI, I came up as an ENFJ - an extrovert, intuitive, feeling, judging. This time I was ENFP. I can't yet account for the change, although I was moderate on all of the items, so who knows.

Get this though: The hallmark of an ENFP is "imagination"...ok cool, I can see that being me. I loved what it said though about ways in which I might 'irritate' team members...these are SO true:

• talking too much or randomly interjecting ideas;
• persuading others to follow a plan without a thorough investigation of facts and specifics.

The whole day today was spent reflecting on our MBTIs and talking about what leadership is, how it differs from management, and how all of these things impact us personally, in our workplace, and within our MBA teams. It was an interesting day for reflection, dialogue and some lively and revealing debate.

Tonight my team continued its work on the debate. We have to argue that considering its positive and negative aspects, globalization in the main is beneficial to everyone. It's a tough argument to make. I owe a very big thank you to my friends who contributed their ideas and thoughts on the topic over the last 24 hours - you are all fantastic. Thanks so much in particular to:

• Dad
• Laurent
• Che-Wei
• Wes
• Blaise
• Sean
• Martino
• Chris
• Ian
• Heath

I doubt very much that our opponents will come up with any anti-globalization arguments that you ten didn't. Because of you, my team will be better prepared to counter those arguments. You're all awesomely awesome!!!

Now I need to get to bed before I get any sicker. Tomorrow we have a case study analysis class with the Dean, and the afternoon is spent in Organizational Relations.