We've just passed the first two weeks of our CSC assignment - time to reflect about the first half time.

Hotel
JM Suites is a good hotel with friendly and helpful staff. I'm good with my room, except that is just above the restaurant and bar: Thursday till Saturday the walls are shaking to the beat of the lout music below me. And some of us got even better rooms with separate bath tub and big terrace. Fortunately the lucky guys share... the terrace, not the bath tub.

Casablanca
We stay in a quite modern city with contrasts. A new electric <a title="Casablanca Tramway (Wikipedia)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_tramway" target="_blank">tramway</a> connects distant points of the city metro-like, but does not reduce the hectic car traffic on the streets significantly. You can spend your time (and money) in the alleys of the old medina or go to a super-modern mall.  You'll get traditional moroccan food, enjoy a <a title="Hamam (Wikipedia)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_bath" target="_blank">Hamam</a> session, listen to the prayers from the minaretts, glimpse women in <a title="Burqua (Wikipedia)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burqa" target="_blank">burqas</a>  - or have a burger at McDonald's, observe Moroccans ordering a six-pack of beers in a local (non-touristic) restaurant, see young (Moroccan) ladies in mini-skirt and go for clubbing at weekends... . Casablanca is not black-white, it is a vivid city with many contrasts, but also with charm.

Work
We 15 IBMers from all over the world have been assigned to 4 different organizations.