Just work again today. I now know the names of everyone who works for me and have made friends with the girl on reception, Maneesha, as she speaks good English. It's very tiring work as there are 3 floors to each block and I'm still checking each room personally. Big Mahesh is slowly getting used to the idea he cant sit in a chair all day and actually lent a bit of a hand. Little Mahesh sadly doesn't get this yet and every time I give him a job he still just shou...

More cleaning today, and I tried to do a bit of the manager's job by answering the phone, however the moment anyone, staff or guests, heard me say 'good morning house keeping, can I help you?' they hung up! I also helped Vincent to tart up the restaurant and move all the tables around. This evening the boys wanted to meet for dinner so we went into Calangute to a place called tree house for a lovely cheap meal then played a few rounds of pool over the road. I tri...

Today I decided to, as Dinky puts it 'kick some ass'. Dinky is an ex wing commander in the Indian RAF and likes things to run well, which he never gets, but he has a good sense of humour about it. I had 20 rooms to prepare and 4 members of staff. They claimed a room took 45mins but I explained to them that that wasn't clean enough for my standards. The boys looked blank, Sandhaya (Sunday) looked resigned and Pryanka (Bianca) looked decidedly furious. I then learn...

Today was our first day at work. As expected it was pretty hard. The language barrier wasn't as much trouble as I expected as there are quite a few staff who speak a little English. The main trouble was they wanted me to sit in the housekeeping office all day, 'doing what?' I hear you ask…well that was just it, doing nothing. That's how management works here, they are the people who are far enough up the cast system to have the best paid jobs while actually doi...

5 years. Today. Its a long time! We spent the morning chatting about the last 5 years and relaxing after the dancing of last night. After much debate and input from the staff we decided to go to Baga and try a restaurant called Britto's. It as right on the beach, the floor was sand and there was some live music. Vincent secured the best table in the house - right at the front of the beach looking out on the sea - and we ate a lovely ( Nicole had the biggest prawn...