June 4th Part III /Now

The following is from an email I wrote to Russell Heyman of BCIT:


I had a little trouble getting picked up at the airport last night, but it had a happy ending. Made me realize just how vulnerable I am out here, as I'm writing this I have a smile on my face.

I arrived in AMD last night, and no one was there to pick me up. I was alone, with nothing smaller than a 100 Rupee note, and an out of service pay phone. No one who was behind a counter could speak English. The guard (with a gun) kept watching me go in and out of the airport, cruise the drivers to see if someone had my name on a sign. I did this several times.

This is where luck came in. A nice gentleman asked me if I needed any help... you know, I was pretty mad looking by this point. Finally, after about half an hour of watching me do this, he asked me again, and he called Poi in Delhi for me. I felt a lot better after that.

Ok... happy ending: So it turn out that Mr. Menoge was there the whole time. He was waiting at the gate, and he totally missed me when I got in. So yeah, I'm glad it worked out. I'm going to talk to Mr. Rohit as soon as he gets into the city, so I'll ask him if I can get set up with a mobile.
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So I'm staying with Erin, and it's fun. Nice to be able to talk to a girl, she's been here for 5 weeks. Turns out, we used to hang out at the same bars in Vancouver. A lot of the time, we get home from Xplora and hit the sack. It's really hot here. I've been watching a lot of TV, and I picked up an optical mouse, I'm working on my portfolio for want of anything else to work on.

I went to get ice cream last night with Erin, she's kinda stressed out right now. And I got to see an Elephant yesterday. Briefly from the autorickshaw.

I'm writing from Erin's system admin class. We're watching Monster's Inc. So far, I'm having a great time.