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/