Sunday, February 6, 2011

The unbearable routine in India

- Around 7.20 AM get up and get ready and have breakfast with relatives
- Around 8.20 AM take the Metro to work… Not a nice experience as it is really really packed… But thank god that there I a separate ladies department, as it can be sometimes really disgusting to be squeezed in between 4-5 male Indians (and very smelly as well)…
- Walk to work about 20 mins.. Nice exercise.
- Find a place on the third floor of the teri building (usually I have to hope that someone is sick)
- Office gets very packed by 10 AM
- Around 12pm I start getting hungry and just think about food (stupid Wageningen routine)
- 1 pm lunch… Usually with all the expats (local Indians do not join us and don´t ask us to join somehow)… We have three kind of canteens to select from.
- After lunch we go the “Chai-Wala” on the road… The best and cheapest tea ever!!! 5 rupees (about 10 cents or so) for a small cup…
- Get back to work… Usually very unproductive as I am very tired and Laurens comes online slowly :)
- In the evening I wait for my supervisor, that is when she usually has time… But this as well does not work out 95 % of the time…
- Around 6/7 pm go back home… Horrible traffic back…. Usually get into a very bad mood and annoyed…Delhi really has too many people
- Get back to the relatives… Hear everyday that I came tooo late… Talk to aunt and uncle… Go to my room for 20 mins… Then the wife of my cousin comes and we talk again… Dinner… Around 11 pm my cousin comes back from home….Talk again…
- around 11.30 PM go to bed…Talk to Laurens or parents or other relatives in India… And then go to sleep at around 12.30 AM….

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