Getting ready for the air marathon

From the logistics point of view everything is ready, I have my visas for USA and Indonesia. I also have my travel e-tickets. On Wednesday January 29th during the morning I'll be traveling to Indonesia, but there is more to it. There are a few stop points between Guadalajara-Mexico(GDL) and Jogyakarta-Indonesia(JOG).
First flight, 3hrs and a half from GDL to USA-Los Angeles(LAX), here I'll check if I can get the vaccination for the typhoid fever, in GDL it seems that it's not available, I checked with the major vaccination clinics and they don't have it and haven't had it for several months, I guess it's not that popular.
Second flight, this is the long one with 15hrs and 40mins from LAX to Hong Kong(HKG), it's time to get some new food :D I hope I find something I haven't eaten, I'll have around 3 hours before I get to the next flight and I intend to have an interesting breakfast, I'll take some pics and share them here.
Third flight, 4hrs and 50mins from HKG to Jakarta-Indonesia(CGK), it's Friday, I know! if everything goes according to plan at this point I would have around 24hrs flying, after all those hours I'm going to have the big meeting and finally see in person my team mates. Here we'll stay until Sunday, we'll visit IBM's site at Jakarta and we will meet all the wonderful people that's been helping us during the past months with all the pre-work activities, tips, etc. I'll try to get a pic with them to upload it here and show you who they are.

Fourth flight, 1hr 15min from CGK to JOG, it's Sunday, arriving at my final destination Jogyakarta where I'll live for a month, I'll do my best to help, I'll learn a lot and I'm sure this experience will change my life.

My goal is to have a new post every Sunday, I'll start adding pictures from the trip to get some color on my blog.

IBM Corporate Service Corps - Volunteer work at Indonesia

During February I’ll be doing volunteer work at Indonesia, no I did not quit my job, I’m fortunate because I’ll be having this great personal experience as part of my career growth at IBM. The program is called IBM Corporate ServiceCorps and here is the link in case you want to know more about it.

I’ve been doing a lot of preparation work, some self paced reading, activities in small teams and it’s been great, it made me aware of many things that I took for granted and I had never thought about. How our lives are full of assumptions which are really different to people with other cultural backgrounds and this is only with my “Indonesia 5” teammates. I can’t even imagine what would the on site full immersion be like but I’m thrilled about it.

On my next post I’ll write about my project assignment, last week we were given an overview of the projects that our Indonesia 5 team (we are 12 IBMers) is going to be working on and who is going to be working on each particular project.

Here other voices from the #ibmcsc Indonesia 5 Team:

Shannon’s:

http://shannonjanejones.tumblr.com/

Elisa’s:

http://elisasindonesianjourney.blogspot.com/

I’m following their blogs and I’ve learned a lot of useful things to get ready for the travel, thank you girls!


**Update Jan-21, Adding Claudia's blog:
http://claudiacscexperience.wordpress.com/