Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Day 18 Nov 4 2009 - Proposal, Swadisht Food and interesting Mc Donald's menu

Wednesday went by quickly. After the meeting with the SEWA staff on the previous day, Soon and I had to rework some of the documentation to better reflect what is already there and how the processes work at SEWA. As we had to submit the first proposal (= a set of slides and a Word document which is used by SEWA to obtain funding) by Thursday, we frantically worked to get things in place, so that we could put the final touches to the proposal on Thursday before we would submit it to SEWA management. At lunch we sat together with some of the SEWA ladies which is always nice as we get to do a little bit of talking with them and they always offer us the foods which they brought for lunch from home. Thank you ladies!

We also gave Vishal from SEWA a brief live demonstration on the Spoken Web site that we had set up on Tuesday to get his feedback. In the evening Arjun took us to a nice roadside restaurant which basically erves all its food "open air" as there is no real restaurant to speak of, basically just tables and chairs. The food and especially the garlic chicken were excellent or swadischt as one says here in Gujarat, so we decided to revisit it quite soon. On the way back to the hotel I just hopped into the Himalaya Mall to get some things. On the way out I took some pictures of the Mc Donald's menu which looks rather different as Gujarat is mostly a vegetarian (except for chicken) state of India. As always the Mc Donald's marketing guys have come up with fancy names such as Chicken Maharaja Mc, Mc Aloo Tikki, Veg Surprise.