Monday, November 2, 2009

Day 10 Oct 27 2009 - Odyssey to work & Adventureous evening stroll

Well, it is Tueday morning an our driver is supposed to be picking us up at 10.30. am at the hotel. Soon and I wait and wait and wait before we finally call Mohammadi from SEWA with whom we quickly discuss the situation before hopping on a rikshaw to go to SEWA as our driver seems to be on sick leave. Unfortunately the driver does not quite find the way and we have to stop multiple times on occassion calling Mohammadi again, before we finally make it to SEWA.
The day at SEWA goes by quickly, Soon and I work on completing the use cases for the new application which we have promised to deliver by Wednesday evening.
As the driver is not available we decide to set out on discovering the streets around SEWA by walking towards the hotel before we will later take a rikshaw back home. When walking home we Soon and me attract a lot of interest - not just one strange looking guy, but two. The Indian people here are quite curious and keep asking where we are from, why we are here on so on. Especially the kids and younger guys keep asking us on taking their pictures, Soon and me sometimes have difficulties granting all their picture requests, but even if we do not, people here stay friendly. It is a fun experience and we decide to do it again, later on.
Dinner we have at a restaurant at the Himalaya Mall - the heart of India - basically a buffet style restaurant with nice decorations which servers a great variety of Indian foods, mostly vegetarian foods though.