The beginning

Sweet, sweet bed

After approximately 2 hours of sleep, I woke up to realize that 1) I was in India and 2) I had no idea how to get to the office. This was a problem.

Frantic emails later, I ended up gchatting my teammate, Namita, who came to my rescue and walked all the way to my flat to help me get to the office. By "all the way" I mean approximately a city block if a city block didn't have a sidewalk and did have cars, motorcycles, and rickshaws spinning wildly around without lanes. Not death-defying, but also not a typical stroll through Nob Hill.

For a day where I was pretty zonked out, I have to say I accomplished a lot. I met the whole Google BIM India team (extremely nice folks), I discussed and refined parts of my project plan, and I learned how to get around the office. And..

AND...

I took a mid-afternoon shopping trip with Samira, Namita, and Abhi to the street market 1 KM away from the office. The team has started a new tradition of "Traditional Dress Fridays" and Samira and I did not remember to include our traditional India dress in our packing preparations. With some expert haggling ala Namita and Abhi, we left there with two gorgeous kurtas at bargain prices.

To sum it, the day in numbers:

• Puzzles worked on: 1
• Desks moved (if you work @Goog, you know this is a very common event): 1
• Power outages: 2
• Indian foods tried: 8
• Kurtas purchased: 1
• Rupees spent: 500
• Microkitchen chocolate tried: 1 (attempting to taste them all without getting huge)

And the quote of the day: "I thought you were taller. You look much taller over VC." Poornima.