First day of real training

Today we started the first day of training. I'm in the fast track because I did CS in college and what not. If things keep up the way they went today though, i'm gonna start wishing I was in the long cycle! All the people from America in the fast track missed the first half of class today because most of us had to go see the Police Commissioner to get registered to stay in India. When we got back it took about 5 min. to catch up on everything we missed, since it was the first day and all. But soon after, we got our assignments for the day. We had to do 11 assignments before 9 a.m. tomorrow. The assignments weren't hard, just very very tedious.

It took us a while to finish them, a few people decided to come back later in the evening to do it. It wasn't soooo bad because it was easy stuff, but I can't imagine having to do so many small programming assignments when things get tougher. We have to do about 10 more tomorrow, but they're not due until monday at 9 a.m. I don't want to do anything over the weekend though, so I'll try and knock them out tomorrow. It's interesting though, it was all review stuff from a basic C programming class but just tedious as all hell.

Today on campus there's a DJ night. You can hear the techno music blasting across the campus. I'm gonna go check it out in a bit, hopefully it won't be a bunch of Indian guys standing around while the music blares. It should be fun, we'll see how it goes. Good opportunity for the camera huh.

Last night I found myself missing home. Well, I've been missing it since I left, but last night it was more than usual. I'm not really sure why I missed it so much. I miss the comfort, being able to wake up the next morning and know that all the people that I care about aren't too far away. I'm gonna miss my college experiences for sure, I've come to terms that they aren't coming back. I hope once I get back home things won't have changed too much, I'm already looking forward to seeing everyone again.

Although, I see my trip over here as a new opportunity to see new things and meet new people. So far I've been doing just that. I wonder if I'll be able to tell my kids (assuming I ever have any) that I worked in another country right out of college. That'll give those little punks something to live up to haha. The people here are really nice and every day there's something new to see, to learn, to eat, or to be frustrated with. It's great, I'm out of my comfort zone and it doesn't feel too shabby.

It's great here, but it's not like back home at all. I think today may be the beginning of my professional career, kind of an interesting start I think.