Hey! So it's been another busy couple of weeks both in and out of work. Last weekend Lucy and I decided to go to the cinema. There was a new Bollywood movie out called Tanu Weds Manu, so we called up a couple of Indian friends and asked if they wanted to go. You'd have thought going to the cinema would be relatively straight forward - but like everything here it involved a bit of drama! We went over to a mall a little way out of town in a very smelly taxi (ser...

So I've been here nearly 2 weeks now! I can't believe it!! Work has been really busy, but I think I'm settling in ok. Its just completely different to the type of work I do at home - but its all good. Last weekend I spent Saturday shopping with Kathie (a Canadian secondee who has subsequently gone home, but might be coming back out here), the Indian landlady of the bed and breakfast she was staying at called Laika, and another guest of the B&B (a Singaporea...

Well - It's been an action packed few days! After an extremely busy couple of weeks at work and home I finally got packed up and flew out to Bangalore. The flight out here was fine (I watched 3 movies - none of which were particularly amazing), and I was pleased to find a driver waiting to pick me up at the airport. It was about 6am in the morning so it was still dark, but my first impressions of Bangalore were that it is much more developed than other Indian c...

Hi! So I have finished work now and am on my holidays! But to bring you up to speed..... My last two weeks at work were very busy - apart from having 2 Sari days (which meant 2 new sari's), I also had a lot of work and training to do! Outside of work, on the first weekend I went shopping and for lunch with Larry (an American secondee), then met up with my friends Dawn and Louise one weekend for a girls night in of pizza and movies. I also met up for Emily (fri...