woensdag 26 december 2012

In the footsteps of my Granddad....

Congratulations!!!  You've been assigned to the Indonesia 4 Team with an expected departure date of February 22, 2013.


This was the title of the mail I found in my mailbox when I opened my mail in the morning of October 5th.
My first reaction was Indonesia, oh, it is the country in Asia I visited the most but then I realised....it is the country my Granddad worked in for almost 40 years. And now I have the chance to work in the same country, although it is for 4 weeks only.........

I called my Dad and told him: I am going to do something you never did and you propably will never do: working in Bandung for 4 weeks....Of course he knew immediately what I meant and I heard a small taste of jealousy in his voice when he congratulated me!

Bandung is one of the cities my Granddad stayed when he was on business trip. My Dad and I visited the city in 2005 when we were on a remembrance holiday! My dad visited Indonesia for the first time after he left the country almost 59 years before! We visited the city just before the Golden Jubilee of the Asian African Conference.



In the hall of our hotel!
 The hotel my Granddad stayed in the 30's!
The conference building

The weeks of preparation could start and started!

#ibmcsc indonesia


zondag 23 december 2012

Congratulations!

Congratulations on your acceptance to the Corporate
Service Corps!

On June 27, 2012  I was delivering a course when during the break I checked my mail finding an email with the title "Congratulations on your acceptance to the Corporate Service Corps! This is a part of the content of the mail:

Dear Yolande M van Alphen,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted into the
Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program. It is an honor to be chosen to
participate in this highly selective program, which includes the most
qualified and experienced IBMers globally. You will be joining nearly
2,000 IBMers who have served in the CSC, many of whom have described their
experiences as life-changing.


I was so exited that I yelled: YES! I made it! Some people new immediately what I meant, some I had to explain... but everybody congratulated me! The rest of the day I was over the moon!

A great wish becomes true! Waiting for my assignment has started ....

#ibmcsc indonesia