Sunday, August 28, 2005
Catching up to date...
My first weekend here we all went to Hyderabad and spent the weekend at the Taj Krishna. It was a holiday weekend due to Indian Independence Day. This was a different kind of place. Very western oriented. Beautiful hotel with great restaurants, a huge pool, nice large comfortable rooms and great service. The only thing missing was a pool side bar since the waiter was kind of slow getting our drinks.
We spent the whole weekend eating very good food, lounging by the pool and partying in the bars at night. The others seemed to "appreciate" everything more than I did but, after all, I had only just arrived and they had been here for months.
We had gone there on a sleeper train but couldn't get return tickets so we hired a car to drive us the 9 hours back to Rajahmundry. That was the trip from hell with the driver playing chicken with everything from bicycles to big trucks. His speciality seemed to be passing on blind corners... I'll never get used to the driving conditions here. No wonder they won't let us drive. I wouldn't even try...
Since then it's been pretty much just back and forth to work six days a week with some late nights on site. Most evenings are spent eating dinner and having a couple drinks before retiring for the night. Saturday night has been dubed "Party Night" or "Drink Night" because it's the one night we can party all night because we don't have to get up the next day...
I am the oldest of the crew of 5 field engineers here on this job. Zac, the project lead is late twenties as is Jules, the controls FE. We also have a couple of electrical FE's, Lael and Adam who are in their 30's. We seem to get along well, which is a good thing under the circumstances, since we are stuck together for some time to come.
We spent the whole weekend eating very good food, lounging by the pool and partying in the bars at night. The others seemed to "appreciate" everything more than I did but, after all, I had only just arrived and they had been here for months.
We had gone there on a sleeper train but couldn't get return tickets so we hired a car to drive us the 9 hours back to Rajahmundry. That was the trip from hell with the driver playing chicken with everything from bicycles to big trucks. His speciality seemed to be passing on blind corners... I'll never get used to the driving conditions here. No wonder they won't let us drive. I wouldn't even try...
Since then it's been pretty much just back and forth to work six days a week with some late nights on site. Most evenings are spent eating dinner and having a couple drinks before retiring for the night. Saturday night has been dubed "Party Night" or "Drink Night" because it's the one night we can party all night because we don't have to get up the next day...
I am the oldest of the crew of 5 field engineers here on this job. Zac, the project lead is late twenties as is Jules, the controls FE. We also have a couple of electrical FE's, Lael and Adam who are in their 30's. We seem to get along well, which is a good thing under the circumstances, since we are stuck together for some time to come.
