This is for you Raschel...

This time last year I was applying for IBM's Corporate Service Corp program - a program "to help provide IBMers with high quality leadership development while delivering high quality problem solving for communities and organizations in emerging markets."  I never would have applied if it weren't for Randy who told me I'd regret not seizing an opportunity to live and work in another country, another culture.  I was selected for the program and in three weeks I leave family and friends to spend four weeks in Kyiv, Ukraine.  We'll see how supportive my husband is after four weeks of full time solo parenting...

There are 11 of us from IBM going to Kyiv - a couple of us from the States, two from Brazil, four from India, an Australian, a Malaysian, and a gal from China.  We have been meeting every Monday morning at 7:00 a.m. by phone to team build and prepare for our assignment.  It's a good thing I'm a morning person.  And NO, I still don't know exactly what I'll be doing yet, as soon as I know, I'll add it here.

For those of you who know me well and those of you who don't, I don't have a Facebook account and I don't Tweet; it's not my thing (if I want you to know something I'll tell you), but I'm going to try to do a blog and do it in honor of Raschel Wagstaff.  You see, Raschel has a Facebook account and I miss out on all the updates of her life - the good and the bad, and I promised I would do this for her.  So, that said, this blog will be live for about 8 weeks, so you better read it now cause I'm not promising it'll be on after that and don't expect a Facebook page to follow.