Days 24-25

(Tuesday, Feb 22-Wednesday, Feb 23)

Eating the salad was a bad idea. Julie/Mike: don’t trust it even in a 4-star restaurant…argh.

Wow, my time is really winding down. Things in the office are running smoothly. There are sure to be some stumbling blocks next week when I am not onsite to edit for the team, but it’s time for them to receive the hard feedback that will help them develop further. I have outlined development areas for each, but for the most part they just need practice…trial and error.

Things I will miss about my India trip:

• Having my laundry washed and ironed at 25 cents an item
• Having long fingernails because I haven’t washed my own dishes in 4 weeks
• Having “big” weekends…I waste so many weekends at home and there are so many things I could be seeing or places I could go
• Meeting new people
• Learning to understand the Indian culture
• Being driven to work each day
• Ability to be very efficient
• Seeing new things
• The weather!

Things I will not miss about my India trip:

• Being without friends and family
• Seeing poverty outside any window I look
• Eating like I am back in college
• South African-style pizza…it’s not bad, but I’ve had enough!
• Waiting in traffic while the cows cross the road
• Five-minute showers that are cool in the final minute
• Long-distance meetings via telephone
• Power outages every 2 hours!
• My doorbell that sounds like an ice cream truck
• Hearing car horns every 10 seconds...at least!
• Seeing a man pee outside almost every single day...not just homeless men, but business men on their ways to work who apparently can't hold it just 10 more minutes, so they pull over their motorcycles and pee right there!
  

This may be my final post….I leave Saturday morning at 3am and touch down in London at 7:45 am. I have plans to explore London with a colleague who works in the London office during the day, and then I fly out at 6:45pm. My plane lands at Dulles at approx 9pm Saturday night…I can’t wait!

And for those keeping count, I will have read 5 books and seen 2 movies this month….which is 5 more books and 2 more movies than my average month J

For those who didn’t receive the link to my photos (sorry!): http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?c=ycztl1x.a6s3pdxh&x=0&y=-xv0lf6