Another one of those days…

7:30 – woke up

7:40 – made dhalia for breakfast

7:50 – had bucket wash, was pretty cold as I hadn’t allowed the dangerous looking water heater to do its thing for long enough

8:10 – got dressed, tried to make myself look less like death

9:00 – got to the office, was told we were leaving at 9:15

9:40 – left office

9:45 – covered eyes and squeaked as was sure we were going to hit truck head on

9:46 – realised hadn’t hit truck and was still alive

9:55 – car slowed down to get over one of sleeping policemen (yes they do have them here, they’re sleeping police men on steroids as you have to slow down to about 1 mph to get over them or risk major damage to your suspension). Saw child at the side of the road having a poo also picking his nose, noted child had a resolute expression of ‘yeah I’m having a poo and picking my nose, what of it?’ and poo was alarmingly green.

10:10 – got to RTP, told VIPs would be turning up at 10:15

10:20 – got asked if I’d present the findings to the group – was assured English would be fine but to speak slowly

11:10 – got started as VIPs turned up

11:45 – did presentation, got told it was good (better than fine I feel which is high compliment indeed)

12:30 – VIPs went to lunch

12:50 – went back to meeting

13:00 – stomach thought throat had been cut, relieved to find it hadn’t been

14:00 – broke for lunch

14:30 – found a touch me not plant, got a bit too excited – told everyone, they weren’t that impressed

14:45 – went back into meeting

14:46 – goats gate-crashed meeting

15:23 – realised I actually understood what someone had in said in Hindi and went ‘ah-ha’ rather too loudly during the meeting. Got some strange looks.

16:30 – meeting finished

16:35 – watched post meeting badminton

16:50 – got back on the road to the office

17:30 – got back to the office

17:45 – Anadita came round and made delicious rotis in 5 minutes, something I hadn’t achieved during 40 minutes the day before and I got covered in flour – she remained clean as a whistle

17:55 - got told I look like barbie!?!?!?

18:30 – made curry and jeera rice which was edible

20:00 – tried to make tea and the gas bottle ran out

21:00 – uploaded photos – realised I need to work harder on my tan

21:10 – wrote blog

21:12 – squashed mosquito

All in all another normal day in India