Arrival

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After a few months of waiting and about 28 hours of traveling I finally reached Jaipur in India. Traveling internationally definitely shows the concerns about the swine flu. Before every stop with the flight I had to fill in health declarations and where I have been and where I will go. The tracking of the disease seems to be taken very seriously.

On the bus ride from New Delhi to Jaipur I managed to see a monkey sliding down a drainpipe, a lot of dromedaries (or was it starved camels?), an elephant and dozens of cows walking down the roads. Apparently I took the wrong bus and ended up on a cheap low class bus where no one spoke english, instead of the Volvo bus with air conditioning and half the travel time. It was a bit complicated since it did not state the name of the stations and no one spoke English, but  I don't regret it for one second! I probably managed to see more of "real" India than taking the tourist crowded buses.

I am staying in  a house with I don't know how many people, but so far I have met two interns from Japan, three interns from Turkey, and one old AIESECer from India, but there are plenty of more rooms from which I have not met the people yet. The place is quite far from where I work (20 minutes with Indian three wheel motorcycle taxi non-peak-hour), so I might get relocated to another place soon.

First day at work was great. I was introduced in more details to some of the products, and then had the chance to follow to three different sales meetings in the field. I was going around the city on the back of the motorcycle of Amit, one of my co-workers, and have to admit that Indian traffic is crazy! There are probably 70% motorcycles, 10% bikes and 20% cars, and everyone is trying to win the competition of honking the horn as many times as possible. (About 60 times per minute!)

Unfortunately I have had my camera packed down in a bag, but I will try to share more pictures in the future.

I will try to not get so long winded in the blog, so stay in tune for next post!