Begging of a new experience...

After 18hours travel, finally I arrived at Casablanca, Morocco yesterday night to join IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC) until May 24th. The following links explain the detail of this program;

IBM site : http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/corporateservicecorps/

IBM Japan : http://www-06.ibm.com/ibm/jp/company/society/corporate_service_corp/

We've already completed 3 months pre-work to apply skills such as consulting, cultural adaptability, new media and communications, global teaming, and corporate social responsibility. During the pre-work, we had a teleconference per week (sometimes 4 times a week... basically it was started from 9 or 10pm in JST! I deeply understand why Japan is called "the Far East";-)), so tomorrow will be the first day to meet with Morocco #5 team members! Soooooo excited!!

Here are our team members; 

Ana Paula (Brazil), Brittany (USA), Cathy (USA), Dany (Canada), Duki (Slovakia), Gerry (Switzerland), Grant (USA), Lauren (Puerto Rico), Laurie (USA), Michael (Israel), Patrick (France), Prashant (India), Ram (India), Susan (USA) and me (Japan)!

Blogging is a one of the important tasks in Morocco to broadcast our activities internally and externally (I'm not good at blogging though and also not a good correspondent...anyway). From today, I'll try to keep posting our daily activities here in Morocco as much as possible :-)

P.S. Inflight movies, "The Little House（小さいおうち）" which was directed by Yoji Yamada and Hana Kuroki won the best actress in Berlinale International Film Festival, was amazingly wonderful! I was crying in a airplane...

倍賞美津子さんの演技がとても素晴らしかった！オススメです。