Days 9-12

(Monday, Feb. 7 – Thursday, Feb. 10)

Laundry
On Monday I received my laundry back from the attendant….I was missing two pairs of underwear! Somehow I knew this would happen, this is why I counted everything I put into the laundry bag! Amit, the attendant, was in my apartment with the phone company guy when I was putting my laundry away. I told him I was missing two items and he was like “really?” I said “yes, underwear…” Two days later one pair of underwear has shown up. I didn’t think I want the other pair back. Regardless I have sent my laundry out again, this time I sent 4 pairs of underwear – stay tuned to hear whether I have an underwear left when I return from India. Maybe I just should have brought 30 pairs (from college – you know how it is avoid laundry at any cost) and not had to wash underwear while I was here. I haven’t sent my bras out to be laundered, I am hand washing those…they are too expensive to lose!

Work
Things are finally going pretty smoothly. The technology is much smoother than it was a few days ago…we still have some kinks, but the team has become rather productive in the past few days with great responses back from the US team.

American Company
Price arrives on Thursday night and will be in the office on Friday. It will be nice to have effortless conversations…hopefully they won’t all be about work in the next five days! We have a great weekend planned: Saturday at the “pink city” aka Jaipur (http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~kartik/jaipur.html) and on Sunday: Agra and the Taj Mahal (http://www.liveindia.com/tajmahal/).

The Gym
It took 10 days, but I found it…and I even when in and worked out! It was basically a glorified home gym with one bike, one treadmill, and one nautilus-like weight system. There was also a scale…I checked it out, but it was in kilograms…I liked the low number, but didn’t want to know what the conversation. So I am going to stick with that. Speaking of healthy living…I have been clean and sober for two weeks now…in fact, I don’t even know where to buy alcohol. I will be a cheap date by the time I get back to DC!

My trip is half over!!!