Sunday the 29 of May I was going to Hyderabad with work. I was going to stay there for the week, to get to know some of the people and get a better understanding of what the company does, since I only joined the 16 of May. The plan was to meet my boss after check in because I hate being late to flights so I decided to go early. I got my roommate to call me a taxi, he asked them to come within 10 min orso, and then we waited and waited some more after 30 min he decided to call them again. They thought he had said within 4 hours.... How that got mixed up we will never know. But after the second call the taxi came after 10 min and I went to the airport. I got checked in and all was fine, so I had a snack and started to walk to the gate when my boss called me and told me that there was no more seats on the flight, so we had 2 options. 1: I could go anyway and find the guesthouse myself and he would come in the morning or 2: I could get off the flight and we could go together next morning, I choose option 2. But this involved me going out of the Delhi airport without flying, so a king fisher employee meet me at the security check and helped me get out again. This involved a lot of stamps and him showing his identity card to the guards, but there were no issues at all. Then we went to the desk to get new tickets for Monday and ended up with a flight leaving Delhi at 9.20. So by the time we got to to Hyderabad, went by the guesthouse and dropped off our bags and got to the office it was lunch time.
Here is a few pictures of the guesthouse.
The pictures are my room the first week, the pool and the view from the rooftop restaurant.
The next few days I spend most of my time with 2 of the girls from the office that works with some of the things I am suppose to work with and my boss. Monday to Thursday we got to the office around 9.15 and left between 18.30 and 20.00. Some very long days for me that are not use to having a job. Thursday my boss told me that we would be staying for the coming week too, but that he would go back to Delhi for the weekend and a meeting with some government people Monday. So I would have to be alone in a city that I did not know from Friday to Monday evening. But on Thursday evening before leaving the office 1 of the 2 girls I had worked a lot with came and asked me if I would like to stay with her and her husband for the week, so I was not alone. I could not reply anything else than I would be more than happy to. :-)
So Friday after work her husband picked her, the 2 girl from the office and me up and we went home to their place, we had wonderful Italian food, because my colleagues husband work at one of the fancy hotel chains Italian restaurant. After dinner we watched a movie and in the middle the girls left, after some time they called me and asked if I would like to join them, of course I said yes. So they were actually cleaning my colleagues closet, she had some Indian clothes that no longer fitted her, so she wanted to know if I were also interested in getting some of them, and of course I were. So I ended up having a bag with 5 suits and 2 Kurtis :-)
Saturday was again a working day from 9.30 to 18, but Sunday was off, so it started out with me having the pleasure of seeing my colleague making Aloo Poori (Indian breakfast)
This is my favorite of the Indian breakfast meals so far. After that we went to Shilparamam
http://www.shilparamam.org/index.html
a very charming place, where we walked a bit around and looked at the stores I ended up buying some new bangles. Se below.
Because we got there in the middle of the day it was really hot, so we continued to Inorbit mall to be cooled down and have lunch, here we did a bit of shopping too.
This was the end of a very god first week in Hyderabad for work.
