Our First Meeting

We had our first meeting with our mentor on 15^th of July.

We were asked to come to McDonalds at 5.30 p.m as the meeting rooms were busy at the time being.

But on that day we arrived somewhat early so we had to, walk to the Eurocenter which had a ten minutes walk from there.

We couldn’t find the place so our mentor had to come searching for us, and we went back to the McDonalds.

First session was an Ice Breaking session.Our mentor was Mr.Uchitha Ranasinghe ,Technical Leader of EurocenterDDC, and of course a graduate from Univerity of Moratuwa. He is from CSE family ,so indeed a big brother of us. First Uchitha gave a little introduction about himself. He has graduated in 2004,worked in Virtusa before moving in to the current working place. He told us about the past days in the campus, about activities they did, heroes they had, and also about the period that CSE was the best among the rest.

Then we had to introduce about ourselves.

After that we had some sort of future planning session. We told him about the activities other colleague groups have had with their mentors. Some mentors have asked to do some presentations, some have taken a tour around several companies, some have prepared interview sessions for the mentoring groups. We were asked to prepare a blog or a forum to submit our ideas and plans about our programme, and also to prepare an agenda for the meetings.

We had some discussions about our next meeting. It was easier for him to have it on evenings. We couldn’t fix a date for the next meeting at the meeting, so we will have to contact him the next week.

We had a nice time with Uchitha(thanks for the treat Uchitha!!), and really it was very glad to meet someone from the CSE family. We spent almost about 2 hours. We stopped our meeting at about 7.30 pm.