Corporate Service Corps 2018
RE: RABAT
Morocco CSC 13
Welcome to Re: Rabat - Morocco CSC 13, A Blog of my experience in Rabat as part of the IBM Corporate Service Corps during the months of October and November 2018. The opinions expressed in this Blog are my own and do not reflect those of my employer or any other party.


Day 22 "Community" Friday 2nd November 2018
Friday was our IBM community service day. It was a day that everyone in the group had been looking forward to. Anna, Carla, and Myself...

Week 3 "Blank Pages" 29th October to 1st of November 2018
This week made me recall an experience I had while working on my undergraduate thesis, where the blankness of each page in my word...

Day 16-17 "A FEStivus for the restivus" Weekend October 27th-28th 2019
I shall begin with a snippet of wisdom I learned from our Tourguide in Fes on our first day; "There are three categories of paradise in...

Day 13-15 "Let the FEStivities commence" Wednesday 24th to Friday 26th October 2018
It only took two weeks for my Blog posting discipline to fail, though to be completely honest I have been writing these retrospectively...

Day 12: "Maxi-Formed" Tuesday 23rd October 2018
If there was one thing I could confess to having an unhealthy relationship with, it would be excel spreadsheets (I am co-dependent with...

Day 11: "No More Tagines!" Monday 22nd October 2018
First day back in the second week and it was largely business as usual. I was able to get stuck into some of the finance and operations...

Day 9 and 10: "Climb every mountain, cross every stream" Weekend 20th-21st October 2018
Words fail me when it comes to describing something as unique and beautiful like Chefchaouen and Akchour, so I shall elect to detail the...

Day 8 "Smurfs" Friday 19th October 2018
We took Lamia through our SWOT analysis today and spent the afternoon sorting through the Ideas and Chopportunities (Portmanteau:...

Day 7: "With Gusto" Thursday 18th October 2018
Does work still count as work if you're doing it at the table of an Italian restaurant? Why yes, yes it does. I was concerned that I was...

Day 6: "A Horse, A Chicken, and a Potato" Wednesday 17th October 2018
Today was our third day at CIAT, and life in general was starting to feel a bit more routine. We spent the morning polishing off the...

Day 5: "Planning the Plan" Tuesday October 16th 2018
The four weeks we had to complete our CSC project simultaneously felt like a very long time, and a very short time. It felt long because...

Day 4: "ACT ready for CIAT" Monday October 15th 2018
Today, when asked the question "How did your first day go?" I was not expecting to answer with "We went to the beach". While I relish any...

Day 3: "Hello Hammam" Sunday 14th October 2018
How many Moroccan men does it take to clean a Chinese man? Today I found out the answer to that question, One... One really hard working...

Day 2: "Don't stay in the Lobby" Saturday 13th October 2018
"Don't stay in the Lobby of a hotel, because that is where most terror attacks will occur". These were the words of our IBM Security...

Day 1: "The Parade" Friday 12th October 2018
We arrived at Abu Dhabi 6am local time, I had managed to get a solid ten hours of sleep across a vacant row of seats on the way in. It...

Day 0: "The Flight" Thursday 11th October 2018
A trip overseas never feels real until the moment you set foot on the airplane, especially when you live in Australia where it takes at...
















