Short Update

So I'm not alone in my apartment anymore. I've been joined by 3 more Americans, so now every bedroom in my apartment is filled. To make things really fun for me, I have been joined by 2 directors and a VP. That means I am basically living with my boss' boss' boss. So not at all strange for me. I do plan on trying to work this into a big huge raise... but we'll see what happens.

I do have more pictures to share, but I haven't had a chance to really sit and go through and type up explanations for everything. But let me whet your appetite with one little tidbit... I have pictures of DRUNK WILD MONKEYS!!! I swear! How crazy is that? I also fed bananas to an elephant outside a Hindu temple. So in theory I was feeding bananas to a god. In all my years going to church I never got to feed bananas to God in the parking lot... this country is so cool!

So I'm guessing that everyone is just as shocked as I was with India's loss to Bangladesh in the first match of the World Cup? There is nothing in the US to compare to the insanity that surrounds cricket here. The captain of the cricket team is having a new house built, and crazed crowds went and TORE HIS HOUSE DOWN! For losing one game. They aren't even out of the World Cup. They did win the second match with the highest point total ever in a World Cup match. So as long as they win Friday night against Sri Lanka they will get into the Super Eight and still have a chance to win the World Cup.

Pakistan though is a whole other story... they lost 2 games so they are completely out of it. It was a huge shock because they were supposed to have a good chance to win. So the next morning their coach was found dead in his hotel room. Dead. It was a big question mark at first but now they have announced that it does appear to be homicide. So the lesson here is you don't want to be the coach of a World Cup Cricket team in this part of the world. In case you were thinking about that as a potential job option... forget it.

I've tried to figure out the whole cricket thing just because it is so popular here. I watched part of the game on Monday night with a webpage listing all the rules of cricket in front of me, but I still didn't have much idea what was going on. The only thing I got was that if they hit what looks like a home run it gets 6 points. Also, those games are REALLY LONG! Eight hours per match. And people are glued to the TV the whole time. I watched an hour of it. More than long enough for me!

I know I haven't updated as much as I would have hoped, but I end up working a lot and then being really tired so I haven't. Sorry. It does mean that I don't have as much interesting to tell... work is work no matter where you are in the world. In some ways things seem pretty normal, and then I see a cow.