Local fishing village

This fishing Village is close to our house we started going for our walks a couple of weeks ago first the locals kept their distance but by our third time of going to the village the locals started to say hello and then the next time we were being asked questions and if we would take their photos

These goats were up on the wall of a building

Why!!!

This is a Temple in the village
The man on the left in the blue shirt is the Mayor
of the village they invited me into the Temple

Hanging with the locals

There was a movie being made on this night

just take a look at the electrical board to power the light's!!

The movie was been made by Tollywood not to be mixed up with bollywood

Tollywood- Of the following two film industries :Cinema of Andhra Pradesh,the Telugu language film industry based in the state of Andhra Pradesh

Cinema of west Bengal Bengali language Film industry based in Tollygunge,a neighborhood of the city of Kolkata in the state of West Bengal.

It holds a record of makeing the first ever talkie movie in the history of Indian Cinema

It is the Second largest film industry after Bollywood in production value and is first in terms of movies made in a year

The mound on the left in this picture is a bundle of fishing nets

they are placed along the beach.

This family was very happy to see me

they love having their photo's taken.

Sometimes life's so simple

Arrival of the Bullet

A very happy day for Mark today his bullet arrived

BBQ

This is the first time we have used the BBQ

Put another prawn on the barbi luv......
Hmmm...dont think its a prawn!!

O.k Put another Cashew on the Barbi

yumm.... cashew's

Think we may have to reassess our cooking method for cashews!

Say Hello India

Megan,Mark and I arrived in Chennai India on 3rd May 2010
How time has flown it's been 5 weeks since we arrived and today is the first day I have had a spare moment to write on this blog. Now where shall I start!

Flight Over

Megz and I in our BIG seats
Our flight over was without any problems and the stop in Singapore was very nice, the airport it's amazing and business class was great i loved having leg space and relaxing but i'm not looking forward to cattle class from now on.

Singapore Airport

Pond in the middle of the airport


Inside the business class lounge there were flowers,fish,computers and food its a good way to spend 4 hours.









Poojapura

We stayed in temporary accommodation for the first 2 weeks.



down the street...

poojapura

in the tree across from out window
Indian Palm Squirrel

Our Home

We live in a gated community, it's fully furnished 3 bedroom house with a lovely garden swimming pool and a gym. I can say I am enjoying the pool and gym!

Sun Set

Our House

Pool

Our Driver & Cook
We have hired a cook, housemaid and a driver which was a little difficult to get used to at first.

Our driver
Suresh opens the door for me and likes to carry my shopping into the house and he is our only source for finding things such as what shop to go to to buy electrical goods. For example today we went shopping for a Oven toaster grill. we left at 10:30 and didn't arrive home until 2 o'clock, we had no lunch by this stage so we were all a bit hungry! That's just what life is like here in Chennai.

Our Cook

Jayanthi our Cook she speaks and understands English very well

Jayanthi has one daughter who is at school she is 15 she lives away from home and Jayanthi only sees her twice a year once in the middle of the year for school break and then again at the end of the school year. Jayanthi was going to a wedding on this day and she told us it would take 2 hours to get there by bus she has a motorbike but you can't go on a bike with the outfit she has on.

The next day Jayanthi didn't get home until 5 o'clock in the morning she works at the neighbours house as well and she had to go and prepare his breakfast then come to our house to do the same for us so she had little sleep and off she went to have a sleep as soon as she had finished serving us and Mark was off to work she also packs lunch for Mark to take to work.

Our Housemaid

Parapha our housemaid is also a nice young lady but she dose not speak English or understand it too well so Jayanthi is the interpreter for us as well. I showed her how to make our bed she never seemed to put all the pillows on the bed and left a cover off there are a few more chores I need to show her how to do as well we will get there.

Trying to cook

I have attempted to cook a cake but alas I used the wrong kind of flour there are a lot of different flours here now I just have to find the right flour for my needs....Jayanthi to the rescue she told me which flour to purchase so maybe my cake will work next time hmm... we will see! I made some Anzac Biscuits today in my new oven they worked, I'm amazed.

so far things are going good and I'm loving every moment.