The weekend shift

Friday morning (well... we're flexible on the timing... the drive took 2 1/2 hours instead of 1 so, pretty much noon by the time we made our big -late- entrance): Meeting the POABS Director. POABS is a fair trade tea (i know!), coffee, rice and spices organization in Kerala.
In exchange for an IBM pen (including light, thank you very much), we got a massive goodie bag filled with coffee, spices and tea. (Gifts for the people back home: check! Excess baggage: check!)
And oh yes, the actions we're taking based on the meeting look good too. We're on a roll!

Question: Would the following scenario be likely to happen in Belgium?
Friday afternoon, 4:30, based on a tip we got from the POABS director, we randomly call the AVT McCormick general number (AVT-McCormick: a joint venture between the Indian AVT company and McCormick, one of the oldest and largest USA based spices companies) asking for 'an executive'.
After some back and forth transfers, kadzzzinggg - we're meeting the Director and COO Mrs. Sushama tomorrow. Saturday that is!
Corporate Social Responsibility, livelihoods for farmers and IBM, prove to be a great door opener.

Saturday, 7a.m.
Those two, don't normally mix. But against my highly valued principles, I'm up already.
Down by the waterfront, during the wee hours of the morning, there exists a place so smelly, so slimy, only the heartiest of (wo)men dare walk its slippery pontoons.
Need to catch the fishermen doing their fishing thing in the early morning light. That my friends, is dedication... (me getting up that is).

Saturday afternoon: Taking the ferry (Fort Kochi to Ernakulam) in flipflops to attend a business meeting is somewhat of a new experience. (good excuse to pick up some new shoes along the way at the Mahatma Ghandi handicrafts market: turns out they're made of camel-leather. I made sure no camels were purposely killed for them and the proud creator of the kicks assured me only the ones that fall dead of old age are being used :-)

From now on, Saturday afternoon, coffee shop and flipflops are my *star* ingredients for a fruitful meeting! The suggestions Sushama made were beyond our expectations. (can't reveal...need to save some successes for our moment suprême, il grande presentacion final)

I chose to disrespect my principles again. Sunday morning: the backwater tour sets off at 8.
I'm sure you were already convinced but hey: This is hard work.