Stuff

Yesterday something funny happened. After dinner I decided to get ice cream. The guy didn't have 3 rupees change to give to me, so instead he gave me a piece of CANDY. I guess it's equivalent but I thought it was odd. Today I was getting some coffee at the indian version of starbucks, Cafe Coffee Day, and I was one rupee short. The guy just let me go so I thought that was cool. It's interesting, rules aren't written in stone here, everything is fluid and there's always room for adjustment. It's good in some ways but it sucks not having anything set.

Today we also "snuck" into the girls dorm. It wasn't hard at all, we just walked on over. Of course we just went there to hang out after a session of bowling. They scared us saying it wasn't possible and what not, but it's not so bad.

I went to Domino's for dinner, I met Miho and Joanna there, two girls from the US batch as well. We all had dinner there along with Sarah and Debby. Yes you guessed it, two other girls from the US batch. After dinner all 5 of us went to the bowling alley for some bowling. I paid for all the games on my credit card and they paid me in cash, so now I finally have money again! A bunch of other people from the US batch came to bowl as well and afterwards we went back to the girls dorm because a lot of them were planning a trip for Bangalore this weekend.

I think I'm going to meet up my friend from Maryland, Akhil Rao, in Bangalore this weekend as well. He's in my fraternity and he knows Bangalore so it should be a good time. I think by then my bank account will be opened as well so i'll have enough cash to enjoy myself. I finished filing my reimbursement and salary advance too, so now I just have to wait for those to clear.

I found out today I'm probably on the fast track for training as per the results of that test. The only thing is, it says we're not supposed to meet up until August 2nd, so tomorrow I don't know if it's a day off or what. They didn't communicate where these lists that told us what track we are on are either. They just kinda told us to check our e-mail and that's all. I figured knowing what time and where our training was going to be held would be a priority for them but I guess not! Oh well, just something else we have to get used to I suppose. I've found that if you actively pursue what you need to get done, it'll get done for sure. I feel like in America people kind of hold our hand and show us what to do and how to do it. Here we're kind of on our own and it's up to us to get things done. I don't know if it's good or bad, just different.

Also I moved into my new room today. It's not so bad, I posted a video of it on picasa. Last night I got the letter to move so I packed up and then called the front desk for them to send a car over to move my bags. The guy says he'll send one over and hangs up. 5 min. later he calls back and says I'm supposed to move tomorrow and not today. So I was a little frustrated since I had just packed all my stuff up. I also missed out on going out to dinner with some friends because I had to move out. So I called the guy back and told him I needed to move out right then because I already packed up and didn't want to unpack. So he finally sent a car over and I was able to move out and move in to my new room.