Day 3.
So today started really slow. Our second day at the India office and still
trying to get onto the network successfully.
The day seemed like it was dragging along for a bit until lunch time
finally arrived. So today we felt ready
to experience Indian food in India. We
asked the guys for something nice that was close enough to take a walk and
experience India in the streets. After
about 20 min of listening and listening again we finally got the directions
pinned down.
We took the walk down the road (seriously I think if it was
more than 700m it’s a lot). The road
wasn’t too nice to look at; we got to see the thing where there is a beautiful
building right next to a squatter camp and then a building site smack in the
middle of nowhere. After getting through
the narrow street and past the building site rubble, we finally made it to the
restaurant we were looking for. This is
when we got confirmation again that the people around here don’t really care
for PR. The entrance to the place
(Chaitanya Parantha’s) is really just a broken piece of concrete also the roof
is basically just a plastic cover. The
look of the place doesn't do the food any justice though. It was awesome. The amount of spice you can fit into a little piece of
dough is really interesting (and in my mind, under rated). None of us
were brave enough to try the “Krut”
though. I think they mentioned that it is a type of plain
yogurt.
We were looking for the Parantha with a potato filling, but
the menu didn’t have the word potato in it so we just went with the word we
know, which is cheese. Eventually we
heard that what we were looking for (or supposed to be looking for) was the
word Aloo, which means potato in Hindi.
We couldn’t get any “normal”
coke there, so we settled for Pepsi.
The lunch at Chaitanya Parantha’s was exactly 10 times cheaper
than the dinner of last night, and not too different in awesomeness.
As soon as we got back to the office we again continued with
the “setting up and settling in” activities.
Eventually we went out for a coffee break. We are still trying to get used to the fact
that we don’t make our own coffee or tea, someone else does it for us… not
weird at all (please note this is to be read in a sarcastic tone). At the office they have an awesome balcony
where everyone goes for lunch. On the
way out to the balcony there is a huge sign that says “Do not smoke here”. So while sitting outside we were just
chatting and laughing about our fail with skipping mains the night before, Lourens
decided to show us all one of his own tricks.
It was a trick wherein he makes a whole sigaret disappear and then
reappear. It was an awesome trick, but
one of the guys noticed Lourens taking out the sigaret and immediately called a
manager. We had a good laugh while trying
to explain that no one was planning to smoke right under the “No Smoking” sign.
Back inside of the office, one of the things that were really strange to see was the
fact that almost no phones ring in the office.
For an average day at the office, I don’t think I would mind that at
all. It was so quiet that I can almost
understand how these guys get so much done in a day.
So for the night of day 3, the guys from the office planned
a night out in the town with us. We went to a place
called Shisha (which we were told means Mirrors). So this place was just amazing. The whole place has a “in the wild” theme to
it. It feels like you are literally walking
through a forest to get to your table, obviously a forest with some gold and
tables in the way but hey, who counts right?
The food was amazing, and for a country where we “wouldn’t find any beef”
(again please note the sarcasm) the steak was really good, and yes I checked,
no one felt offended by my eating of the steak. I am trying hard not to fail as bad as the guy from 'Outsourced'.
While sitting in the restaurant Lourens suddenly flew up and
ran out to call his wife, he thought that we got too lost in the chatting and
that he forgot to call her at an appropriate time. So it was around 10h15 here when this happened. He only forgot about one small
little detail. In South Africa it was only around 6h45, so she was actually
surprised when he called too early. The time difference has actually been
messing with all of our minds. But
Lourens got to be the one that made it seem the most funny.
Well that was pretty much it for the day. We are planning on going out with some of the
guys from the office again tomorrow, as it is Saturday the fact that we have to
be up at 6 isn’t really sounding too appealing right now, but we heard that it
is going to be awesome so we will do it with a smile (not even a fake one).
We also noticed today that Kaishni and Hein are starting to
adopt the “head bobble”. Yes I said it,
they dared me to.
-this was thought about on many levels including novice,
beginner and awesome
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