I'm a couple days in now. Seeing the Studio I team headquarters was pretty nice. They do have a nice work space and they serve meals on the roof which is a pretty cool place to eat. Most of the food I could not tell you what it was, but it's been tasty and only a little spicy, despite reputations for Indian food. If anything I think the food has a strong taste more so than a spicy one. Now that I'm not on edge from jet lag I can start to relax and enjoy some things here.
Last night we all went out to a local brewery called Arbor Brewery, which was tough to google since it kept wanting to show me one in Ann Arbor, MI. Getting to the place was another ordeal with Uber. It's very cheap to get a taxi ride here but without proper addresses it's really difficult to tell them where to go or where you are. Generally we've had to call them and yell over the traffic and honking of cars to get them an idea of where to pick us up. Traffic is still nuts but I'm getting used to it. No one goes very fast, mainly because you can't, and so even though it looks scary it's not so bad. Crossing a busy street is still kind of crazy though. It's a game of frogger without a second chance.
Oh, so back to the brewery, I had an Expresso Love stout and then some blonde ale both were really good. The food wasn't that great, I had some 'mexican' which I put in quotes because it was clearly some India version of it that was a valiant effort at being Mexican food. Lunch the next day was at TGIFriday's which was interesting. It was almost like home but not quite. The menu was almost American, but not quite. For example: you can get a cottage cheese quasadilla. They had a buy one get one free drink special. Dave and I each got a long island ice tea and kelly got two...I don't know some pink drink.
Work has been going by very fast. We get in at 9-9:30 and then I start in on fire fighting basically. My job has consisted of explaining how to fix technical problems, reviewing some art and teaching others how to review. Its fun, I get to teach in a way which is cool, and my day goes by very fast. We take off at 5 and get home, shower, I read for a little, then we go get dinner.
It's actually been pretty fun having three other people out here with me that I know. We pretty much go do everything together. I end up sitting over at the Kellies apartment because they have wifi through the hotel. The place Dave and I are in is an apartment, no wifi, and we have some aircards for internet. It's pretty much useless until 11 or so at night when they suddenly start working. I assume it's the amount of traffic on them that during peak hours pretty much no one can use it.
Today on our way home we had a cow blocking traffic. It just sort of stood there and everyone had to try to go around it, which didn't work well. It was pretty funny but I'm sure on a regular basis it'd get annoying fast. I'm not totally sure how these cows survive, there isn't really any grass or anything to eat around here. Maybe people feed them? Either way, it was totally not worried about being in the street at all.
We saw a white guy today too. It was kind of funny, as he passed us on the street all our heads turned. I totally get why we get stared at here. It was just really funny that we all were like, "Another white person!"
Last night we all went out to a local brewery called Arbor Brewery, which was tough to google since it kept wanting to show me one in Ann Arbor, MI. Getting to the place was another ordeal with Uber. It's very cheap to get a taxi ride here but without proper addresses it's really difficult to tell them where to go or where you are. Generally we've had to call them and yell over the traffic and honking of cars to get them an idea of where to pick us up. Traffic is still nuts but I'm getting used to it. No one goes very fast, mainly because you can't, and so even though it looks scary it's not so bad. Crossing a busy street is still kind of crazy though. It's a game of frogger without a second chance.
Oh, so back to the brewery, I had an Expresso Love stout and then some blonde ale both were really good. The food wasn't that great, I had some 'mexican' which I put in quotes because it was clearly some India version of it that was a valiant effort at being Mexican food. Lunch the next day was at TGIFriday's which was interesting. It was almost like home but not quite. The menu was almost American, but not quite. For example: you can get a cottage cheese quasadilla. They had a buy one get one free drink special. Dave and I each got a long island ice tea and kelly got two...I don't know some pink drink.
Work has been going by very fast. We get in at 9-9:30 and then I start in on fire fighting basically. My job has consisted of explaining how to fix technical problems, reviewing some art and teaching others how to review. Its fun, I get to teach in a way which is cool, and my day goes by very fast. We take off at 5 and get home, shower, I read for a little, then we go get dinner.
It's actually been pretty fun having three other people out here with me that I know. We pretty much go do everything together. I end up sitting over at the Kellies apartment because they have wifi through the hotel. The place Dave and I are in is an apartment, no wifi, and we have some aircards for internet. It's pretty much useless until 11 or so at night when they suddenly start working. I assume it's the amount of traffic on them that during peak hours pretty much no one can use it.
Today on our way home we had a cow blocking traffic. It just sort of stood there and everyone had to try to go around it, which didn't work well. It was pretty funny but I'm sure on a regular basis it'd get annoying fast. I'm not totally sure how these cows survive, there isn't really any grass or anything to eat around here. Maybe people feed them? Either way, it was totally not worried about being in the street at all.
We saw a white guy today too. It was kind of funny, as he passed us on the street all our heads turned. I totally get why we get stared at here. It was just really funny that we all were like, "Another white person!"
