Hello all
I was just chatting online a few moments ago and it dawned on me that I have all this stuff to say that may not even make much sense but I am going to say it anyway
I have been living here in Chennai for 5 and half months and haven’t written a word about what's life really like here so I think it time that I did
First I must say I do love living here and having this experience away from my homeland, Friends and family.
That fantastic Country I call home .... Australia
I don’t know what it is but I just need to let it out...
When you move away from everything you have known all your life never even for one second thinking in my entire life I would be in a strange and so very different land it’s absolutely amazing and at the same time terrible.
Some days are good and some days bad you are probably thinking well no different from anywhere ells’
Well your right Life is full of up and down moments... but at least in your home country there are so many familiarities that you feel so much more at ease
So here I go…lol
August 2010
Thursday 5th
Today Meg went back to dentist and now she has a tooth again very well done as well diden't take long perfect match
they did a fantastic job I am very happy with it and more importantly so is meg...
On the way home had to do a little grocery shopping and what do you know nouthing runs smooth here in India...lol..well this is what happened I did all my shopping except for two things which I knew I could get in the store up the road a bit so all good went to the check out waited there for quite a while just one of thoes days then it was my turne hurray...the girl put all my shopping through then it came time to pay for my goodies took out my card the lovely girl swiped my card then again then again hmmm...... here we go it's one of thoes day's then she atempts one more time in the mean while there is a lot of descusion going on between the other check out girl the manager and the packing boy...they seem a little annoyed ..then the girl turns to me and says can you pay cash
Today Meg went back to dentist and now she has a tooth again very well done as well diden't take long perfect match
they did a fantastic job I am very happy with it and more importantly so is meg...
On the way home had to do a little grocery shopping and what do you know nouthing runs smooth here in India...lol..well this is what happened I did all my shopping except for two things which I knew I could get in the store up the road a bit so all good went to the check out waited there for quite a while just one of thoes days then it was my turne hurray...the girl put all my shopping through then it came time to pay for my goodies took out my card the lovely girl swiped my card then again then again hmmm...... here we go it's one of thoes day's then she atempts one more time in the mean while there is a lot of descusion going on between the other check out girl the manager and the packing boy...they seem a little annoyed ..then the girl turns to me and says can you pay cash
huhuhu..hehehe as if...... I said "I carry no cash sorry" then she turned to the manager had a talk turned back to me and said "you can go accross the road to the ATM and get money out"..hmmm.. to which I said "can I".... "I dont think so" and I walked outside got into the car and told my driver suresh go to the next groacery store no good here...lol he was very confused after explaining what had happened he took me to the next port and I did my shopping and the girl swiped my card and off I went with the the boy carrying my shopping to the car and then we went home. so that was my day...feww now to put up my feet and relax a bit
Friday 6th
Here we go again anouther day in Chennai, The Morning starts with breky with Mark and the girls the driver Suresh turns up we go through the plan for the day,Kat and Mark head off for there day.
Suresh turnes up on time 11:15am Meg and I head off to pick up Mark from work, then we are off to Megs school for her oriantation we have to go through sercurity first pick up Sureshe's pass to enable him entry into school,then to the libary for our oriantation!!
All went well we were then taken around the school time to leave take mark back to work and meg and I go and pick up kat from school then off to the Imigration office for Kat's finnale papperwork,while she is here.
This to me is a very amusing process we walk in and are told to go to window one in a small very crowded room with about 30 chairs and people lined up on all four walls chatting while they wait, in front of the chairs are three windows, a little like when you go into the bank in Oz but not as fancy...lol
Kat and I then go to window 1 and there is a group of people standing there in front of this window waiting for an opertunity to be served so kat and I line up behind them hopeing for service and to get out of there.
Not that it is at all a nice orderly line its elbow and be as close as possible to the window of oppertunity as possible amoungst the other people, Who are intending to do the same thing as we are.
Any small space between you and the next person is yours for the takeing!! kat and I took it,no such thing as personal space here.
Then we had a few people who were summond by the lady behind the glass window to come forth to collect pappers that they needed to sighn,then they are off to the next process...hmmm remember doing that one with Mark and meg..
Then there it was that window of oppertunity that showed itself to us, I shoved my paperwork infront of the lady behind the glass...yarhooo... we made it she took our pappers and kats passport.
Took a quick looked at kat stamped her papers then passed the pages of papperwork back to kat for her to sighn.
I think there were 4 pages for her to sighn then passed it back then stamp stamp stamp passed us back one peice of papper and her passport then we got out of there...home free .
I called saresh to come and pick us up, we walked out to the front gate and waited jumped into the car feww..
On the way home we stoped at a local cafe for some lunch we were starving it was now 4pm filled our tummys and went home.
and that was anouther one of my interesting days....lol.
Sat 7th
Well this day hasen't started yet its 10pm here Friday night but we have a family comeing over tomorrow for a BBQ and to watch the game hopefully no power cut's!!!
Mark has his fingers crossed!!
Friday 6th
Here we go again anouther day in Chennai, The Morning starts with breky with Mark and the girls the driver Suresh turns up we go through the plan for the day,Kat and Mark head off for there day.
Suresh turnes up on time 11:15am Meg and I head off to pick up Mark from work, then we are off to Megs school for her oriantation we have to go through sercurity first pick up Sureshe's pass to enable him entry into school,then to the libary for our oriantation!!
All went well we were then taken around the school time to leave take mark back to work and meg and I go and pick up kat from school then off to the Imigration office for Kat's finnale papperwork,while she is here.
This to me is a very amusing process we walk in and are told to go to window one in a small very crowded room with about 30 chairs and people lined up on all four walls chatting while they wait, in front of the chairs are three windows, a little like when you go into the bank in Oz but not as fancy...lol
Kat and I then go to window 1 and there is a group of people standing there in front of this window waiting for an opertunity to be served so kat and I line up behind them hopeing for service and to get out of there.
Not that it is at all a nice orderly line its elbow and be as close as possible to the window of oppertunity as possible amoungst the other people, Who are intending to do the same thing as we are.
Any small space between you and the next person is yours for the takeing!! kat and I took it,no such thing as personal space here.
Then we had a few people who were summond by the lady behind the glass window to come forth to collect pappers that they needed to sighn,then they are off to the next process...hmmm remember doing that one with Mark and meg..
Then there it was that window of oppertunity that showed itself to us, I shoved my paperwork infront of the lady behind the glass...yarhooo... we made it she took our pappers and kats passport.
Took a quick looked at kat stamped her papers then passed the pages of papperwork back to kat for her to sighn.
I think there were 4 pages for her to sighn then passed it back then stamp stamp stamp passed us back one peice of papper and her passport then we got out of there...home free .
I called saresh to come and pick us up, we walked out to the front gate and waited jumped into the car feww..
On the way home we stoped at a local cafe for some lunch we were starving it was now 4pm filled our tummys and went home.
and that was anouther one of my interesting days....lol.
Sat 7th
Well this day hasen't started yet its 10pm here Friday night but we have a family comeing over tomorrow for a BBQ and to watch the game hopefully no power cut's!!!
Mark has his fingers crossed!!
About time you stated using the blog as a blog!.
ReplyDeleteNow if you can combine your entries with pictures you will have a very nice blog. (diary / photo album). Don't forget to send everyone an email with a link to your new post and ask them to FOLLOW it. :-)
Great blog!