tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69712674129215221242024-02-06T21:45:18.731-08:00India CSC: let's go!Ale Gagliardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08851112242006953670noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971267412921522124.post-27067562299436382452014-02-15T08:29:00.001-08:002014-02-15T08:30:38.750-08:002 blogs is too much!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">despite my initial good proposition to maintain a blog in italian for my family and friends and one in english for many colleagues and friends, I suddenly realized that it will definitely be impossible to catch up with both of them... :-(</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">hoping that anyone interested will at least enjoy the pictures </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://alegindia.blogspot.it/</span></div>
Ale Gagliardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08851112242006953670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971267412921522124.post-2052557979687322852014-02-08T08:59:00.001-08:002014-02-12T10:21:27.983-08:00to Ludhiana<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: x-small;">I couldn’t sleep so much but I’m
excited to go downstairs to the lobby and meeting my CSC colleagues….we are all
there in the small lobby and it is strange but it seems we already know each
other…Time to go to the train station: amazing experience! Each of our luggage
is brought by a man on his head (mine’s weight is exactly 23 kgs, the maximum
allowed) and we have to rush behind that man walking into the crowd not to
loose it. The station is crowded and noisy but we manage to safely got on the
train.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The first class has wide and
comfortable seats where we will be able to take a rest….but unexpectedly we
have to share our couch with a very noisy
groups of old classmates and their families going to the marriage of one of
them. They sing, play funny games and above all they do not stop eating! They
are only heating up for the real ceremony …I cannot imagine what it will be!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">At Ludhiana the train stops only 3 minutes and
we have to carefully prepare our strategy to get off with all our stuff: thanks
to Shruti and her suggestion everything is fine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">We are now tired but we manage to
have a very spicy lunch (at least for me). Will I survive? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It’s Friday morning and I’m back at
Malpensa hoping to leave! The flight this time is confirmed and in almost an hour
we are in Frankfurt. While waiting for the
next flight we exchange contacts with the other unfortunate passengers promising
we will keep in touch for future travel….(Iran? why not!). Finally @1.30 am
on Saturday we land in Delhi!
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">At the gate I’m surprised by the
great crowd at this time in the night….!!! Looking for a while, I finally find
Smitha holding a small sheet with Corporate Service Corps. She will have to
wait for another participant so she calls me a taxi that drives me to the
Bloomrooms hotel where I can get a little rest (2 hours)</span></div>
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Ale Gagliardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08851112242006953670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971267412921522124.post-35208420223934301302014-02-08T07:18:00.002-08:002014-02-08T07:20:46.981-08:00the departure....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: x-small;">Finally the day has come, February 6<sup>th</sup>,
and I’m ready to fly to India.
My travel plan includes a flight from Milan to Munich where I will meet
the other European participants (Peter, Pierre, Cristian, Lukas, Dmytro). From Munich we will fly to Delhi
and then we will reach Ludhiana
by train.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">……..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Unfortunately, after initially
announcing a delay, my initial flight to Munich
has been cancelled. After a 2 hours queue, I finally have a new flight (leaving
Milan to Frankfurt
on February, 8<sup>th</sup>), a voucher for an hotel near to the airport and
some new friends met while queuing. They are all passionate travelers and we
have dinner together telling stories about countries all around the world…not
too bad anyway! ;-) </span></div>
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Ale Gagliardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08851112242006953670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971267412921522124.post-89590727915160542342014-02-02T02:23:00.000-08:002014-02-02T13:30:56.881-08:00- 4 days<span style="font-size: x-small;">This week we had our last CSC team
call before departure…Thanks Jennifer for leading us through all the
modules
over these weeks! We got the last logistics
information and details about our trip. We will meet all together in New
Delhi and we will go by train to Ludhiana, the destination of out CSC
program, in the indian state of Punjab. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I’m really looking forward to know
the other 11 participants coming from all over the world: US, Brazil, France, Romania,
Germany, Czech Republic,
Japan, Canada, Mexico,
Hungary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">In the meanwhile today I’m
struggling to pack all the stuff now spread all over the floor trying to keep
the weight within the allowed 23 Kilos: MISSION
IMPOSSIBLE!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I’m also preparing my personal mp3 compilation for this
adventure…good music is always an important part of my travels ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">#ibmcsc india 22 </span></div>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span>Ale Gagliardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08851112242006953670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971267412921522124.post-84931432655609569482014-01-28T15:14:00.003-08:002014-02-02T08:17:27.156-08:00Congratulations! You've been invited to join the India 22 Corporate Service Corps Team! <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I’m
starting counting down the days to the departure for my IBM Corporate
Service Corps to India.For those of you who don’t know what it is about,
just a quick recap of what happened in the last 9 months.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This
journey surprisingly started from India, yes…India!....and, like in a
loop, will bring me back to that country.It was indeed on April 2013
that I finally decided to apply to the CSC initiative after having
thought about doing it several times in the past thanks to the stories
heard from colleagues that already joined the program.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I submitted my application one week before leaving for a business trip
to India (Bangalore) and got my manager’s approval while we were waiting
our flight at the airport.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What
a great surprise when, several months later, I received an email
congratulating with me for having being selected as participant for the
India 22 CSC Team with destination Ludhiana!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Since
then I started thinking back to what I’ve seen, smelt, tasted there and
looking forward to immerse me again in that wonderful atmosphere….and
started the countdown!</span></span></div>
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