Past few days

This past weekend we went into town again to pick up those clothes we got made a while back. I have to say i'm pleased with the way they turned out. They first great! I also got some glasses made, seeing as how the ones I have right now had to be welded together just a week before I came to India. On sunday we went up to Chamundi Hill and visited the Chamundeshwari temple. It was pretty nice, hoards of people though. There are a thousand stairs from the bottom of the hill up to the temple. We took the bus up because we missed the stop for the stairs but we did climb down the stairs. It was nice, there's a gorgeous view from the top of the hill of all of Mysore. I figured you'd be able to see that fake-me-out epcot center on campus from up there but I didn't spot it anywhere.

I made a new friend last week as well, her name is Deepa. She's pretty cool, she's my first real Indian friend so I'm trying to figure things out like what most Indian people think about the U.S. batch and stuff. I did find out that they get paid a lot less than us, more so than I originally thought. It makes sense though, we had to fly across the world and a lot of us have bills to pay in dollars back home. Deepa is from Bangalore so she tells me a lot about it, I have yet to go. She complains about Mysore a lot, I thought this place was really nice so that was a little shocking. I'm also afraid of seeming like "that guy" that spends ridiculous amounts of money on stupid stuff in front of her or any other Indian trainees in general. So I try to eat the cheaper Indian food instead of opting for domino's pizza or something. She told me that some people stopped talking to her because she made friends with people from the U.S. batch. I thought that was a little weird, I wonder that it's all about.

We have our second exam tomorrow (yeah, already). This exam is going to be about the Infosys Quality Systems. It's just an exam about how their processes work and what the normal process of a project are within the company. It should be easy but there's a lot to memorize. I hate big corporations because they have to many acronyms, it's crazy.

Also, Wednesday (Aug. 15th) is India's Independence day so we have off from work. It should be pretty sweet, I wonder what kind of celebrations they have here. Apparently they have a big celebration at the palace here in town so I might check that out. In that regard I'm glad the exam is tomorrow and not after the holiday, that way I can relax on wednesday. Our next module (class) is RDBMS (Relational Database Management Systems). Now it's getting into the part of the training that I was looking forward to. I've wanted to learn about database stuff forever, I've never done it before. Hopefully this time around i'll learn something, unlike our first module that was just about C.

Well I should be getting to bed now, good night

p.s. Suicide Bounce by Nas is a great song, check it out sometime.