Mmmumbai!

So, the rest of our time in Sri Lanka was good- we are making offers to some really great candidates, but I left with the feeling that there was a huge amount of the country we didn't experience...I would have loved to have seen where they grow the tea etc... oh well, at least we saw the elephants (that was definitely the highlight for me) and maybe I'll be back someday...(maybe not during the rainy season though..).

We took a midnight flight from Colombo and arrived in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) a few hours later, finally arriving at the hotel about 4am... after about 4 hrs hours of sleep (the recruiters picked us up at 10am), we were standing in front of the powerpoint again telling a new group of Muslim guys why they should come with "us"to Makkah....this morning more than ever, I felt like a musician on tour--- I really realllly had to think when I did the part about being "so happy to be {insert city name here}" also, I have about 5 different currencies in my wallet at the moment-- it's confusing since Morocco and the UAE both use Dirhams, Sri Lanka and India both have Rupees, Tunisia and Jordan use Dinars and Egypt and Syria have pounds!!! AND, none of the countries we go to seem to accept the currencies of the others for exchange-- it really is easier to carry US actually..

Needless to say, we haven't had much time at all to see Mumbai, but so far it looks exactly like the parts of cairo that I dislike...really dirty with lots of traffic. On the plus side, all the people that we've met are really nice (even though they could really stand to use a little more deodorant!).

The hotel we are staying at (an intercon) is pretty nice- EXCEPT for the fact that it's way too hightech- the lights are all on these stupid touch sensors and mine was doing some weird exorcist thing and actually shut off completely a few times this morning while I was trying to take a shower; Wally had the opposite problem as he actually had to unscrew the light bulb from his lamp to make it turn off! I don't get mad very often, but after only 3 hours of sleep, standing in the darkness, wet and covered in soap, I was pretty f#$%^ P.O'd!! It seems like a trend in hotels lately to adopt all this super new-age technology, which is fine, but please, GMs--- for the love of god, make sure it's user friendly, otherwise it just annoys the guest (and I mean REALLY annoys...)

After our interviews today we sat in their rooftop bar, had a drink and watched a huge storm roll in over the bay...

Tomorrow is another day of interviews here, then we fly to Delhi on Tuesday morning realllly early. El Hamdallah, we have that day off, so we might try to see some of the sights, I think the Lotus Temple looks sort of neat- we also want to see the Taj Mahal (I'm not going to link that as I'm sure you all know what it is..), but apparently it's a few hours away so we'll see if we can find the time...pft all this interviewing is getting in the way of our sightseeing agenda :P

Okay, I really need to get some sleep but I hope you're all having an excellent weekend! bye for now,

C