Last night we arrived at the airport a bit past midnight. Went through security and Customs (they were very fast and much milder than USA. Our driver (there were two vans for the eight of us. I rode shotgun! Exciting.) The driving was not that exciting because there was not much traffic.
Driving with my friend Sanborn in the USA was a good preparation for this driving. Late night little-traffic driving didn't scare me... probably rush hour traffic will, though.
We arrived at the office a little after 3am local time. There was a little confusion about room keys...
We arrived at the front door to C tower, but there was no one at the desk so we went up to the 2nd floor, where TW's main offices are. A guy at the desk gave us our keys after some confusion, and summoned a guide to help us find our rooms (which were not all in C building... I'm in H building, we have some guys in P, C, A...) there were some language difficulties. Eventually Uchenna(spelling?) and rebecca and I hared off on our own and found H (all the girls are in H I guess) after some exploration (the front area of the buildings have large signs on them with their letters, and they're in roughly alphabetical order, so it wasn't too hard)
Our rooms are very large- Uchenna and I are in a suite for 3. We each have our own private room. There is a kitchen and a laundry nook. The kitchen has some cookies in it...
All over, there are switches, and we don't know what they all do... we figured out the ones for the hot water heater in the shower... and some of them are for the fans, and some of them are for the lights... but really, that's all we know .
The taxi van on the way here had a little Ganesh on the dashboard and it made me think of Ursula. :)
In the apartment, the outlets are India-style so we didn't get to charge anything... in the office the outlets are dual-style, so that's good. :)
This morning I woke up around 8:30am local time (after taking a 2hr nap after getting to my hotel room). Took a caffeine pill... walked to the office (not hard to find but I did make one false start in the wrong direction...) hung out awkwardly for a while, since no one seems to know or care that I'm here... a nice guy from the London office told me where the breakfast was. It's some kind of short-string pasta, and coconut curry... and I have pseudo-Fanta to go with it and I am happy. On plate two right now. I hope it doesn't do anything awful to my digestion.
So now I guess we'll hang out for a while... eventually our trainers will show up and tell us what to do... until then, I'll work on the Industrial Logic courses, I think.
Currently 1PM in Chicago and 9:30am in India.
But then Shefali and Rebecca showed up! They went to go get breakfast. There is an option for custom-made omelettes, lol.