Silver Jublee

I have been here for about 25 days now and slowly starting to get a hang of all the differences in eating patterns and sleeping hours. Didnt have to adjust my body clock too much because i was used to sleeping at 3 oçlock in the morning back at the university and time difference being 3.5 hrs , i adjusted quite easily. Initial ten days i struggled with food options , with the dilemma being whether to cook or just eat outside. Thankfully my hosts are very gracious and i usually eat my dinner with them , occasionaly cooking whenever i have time. Lunch is a 4 euro affair usually with a large sandwich and a glass of soup in the university.

About the work , well , I manage with online help via gtalk and some constant surveillance by my supervisor . She has already caught me chatting everytime she walks in to check my code , but I guess has accepted it as a part of my quirky ways which by the way also include coming late to the office atleast half an hour late by everyone else. But I guess the student’s room where I work , we have Phd’s and master’s students coming in even around noon so that is kind of overlooked. It might also be due to the fact that I have already been paid in full and hence the fear of alieanating the supervisor is not there anymore. But to my credit though I havent missed a single day of work till now , a drastic surprise to my friends who know me at IITG. Reasons range from working in the same room as pretty european chicks to having free coffee and hot chocolate throughout the day. It almost makes reasearch sound fun.

Well another thing , everyday I am bombarded with gtalk messages from overexcited batchmates enquiring whether I have been to amsterdam and had some dibbly dobbly action :D(pardon the stupid word , but i dont want firewalls to screen my post). And well reality is not as exciting as imagination. The town where is live is a very quiet city even though it has bout 30 k students. No late night parties , no booze evenings nothing till now. I havent even heard a car honk for 25 days. :O and so I m kind of getting annoyed at all these requests asking me for mushroom n weed prices and the cheapest dibble dobble in amsterdam. How the hell would I know? Everybody has net , log on , surf and book early if u want any discounts you cheap bastards. Better still , just go there and bargain like your life hinges on it , might work. But dont act retarded and try to get student discounts on your ISIC card in the red light district.

In my personal opinion , I would rather do those things that we woudnt get a chance to do back home like adventure sports n all. Better to go back from Europe with a broken nose than herpes I guess