The Day of "meeting"

After long journey, I had arrived in Istanbul at 10pm 21st Sept..
My flight was pretty good except it was delayed.
In the next morning, finally I could meet a couple of my colleagues and enjoyed the breakfast with them.
We became friends even though we met first time in the morning.

Yesterday was Saturday, so we went to sightseeing in Istanbul.
Istanbul is very fascinating for me. There are both Asian cultures and European cultures in here.
The road which has south-eastern Asia's atmosphere is next to European style buildings.
However I thought my colleagues made me to feel more fascinated.
They are 11people from 5countries (Some members flew later).
Each member has different cultures and characters.
Fortunately, all member is very nice!
There are great members and nice city, I thought it was my best first day.
Also I felt sad a little since we have to leave after 1 month.

Today, we are moving to Izmir.
I am really looking forward to see the last team member who came to Istanbul at 11pm yesterday.
I bet Izmir must be very fascinating city, too!!

The Day of "starting my blog"

This is my first time to open the blog.
I am afraid that this could be my last one:P

This blog will introduce my CSC experience in IBM.
I guess most people do not know what CSC is, so let me explain it here at first.
Below is the short introduction of CSC program, which is provided by IBM Corporation.

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The Corporate Service Corps was launched in 2008 to help provide IBMers with high quality leadership development while delivering high quality problem solving for communities and organizations in emerging markets. The program empowers IBM employees as global citizens by sending groups of 10 - 15 individuals from different countries with a range of skills to an emerging market for four week community-based assignments. During the assignment, participants perform community-driven economic development projects working at the intersection of business, technology, and society.

(Please refer to the link for more detailed information)
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/corporateservicecorps/
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I was selected as a CSC member two years ago and was assigned to Izmir, Turkey as Turkey team#8.Turkey team#8 is divided to 4 sub-teams.
Today was our last meeting in 3 month pre-work, and I will leave for Turkey this Friday.

The purpose of this blog is not only to improve my English, but also to leave my great experiments in Turkey even after I go back to Japan.

There are 3 days left to leave Japan. Actually I feel complicated, both excited and nervous.
 (Maybe my poor English is making me to be very nervous)
Although I am not sure I can do well, I will try to enjoy everything :-)
Fortunately, there are many managers in my team and my sub-team, I think they may support me if I am in trouble ;)

I think next update will be in Turkey!