So, I have made it safely through to New Delhi. A quick rundown on the past couple of days...

I arrived Friday night after a very long day of flights and airports. A couple of guys from the group organising the intership (AIESEC) picked me up at about midnight and drove me to a conference they were holding over the weekend, at a nice little spot in the countryside outside New Delhi. Stayed there till Monday. I was surprised that all the Indians there spoke perfect English and this was the main language they communicated in, even with each other. They will occassionally drop into Hindi but not often...even on the radio it is about half English / half Hindi (hinglish), you'll hear passages like 'and the survey indicated about 70% of people agreed that bing na damast neek pan pradi'.

Conference was good fun and I got to meet quite a few Indians from New Delhi. It was absolutely freezing at night and I ended up wearing almost every piece of clothing I had to bed. I feel like an idiot who turns up to Melbourne with only t-shirts and shorts because he thinks all of Australia is hot and dry.

At the moment I am staying with a girl named Mikna and her family, Mikna is a student working with AIESEC. Apparently today I should be moving into the trainee house. It will be good to find out what the other people working over here are like, and should be interesting as they'll be from all over the world.

Mikna's family have been great to me. I have eaten really well (loving the food and the sweet, milky, spicy tea) and watched a few seinfeld re-runs on their cable (I am amazed they watch the same shows...Mikna's mum was annoyed because she missed Will & Grace and everybody loves Raymond).

I haven't seen much of New Delhi yet except for the roads late at night and early in the morning. They are possibly worse drivers here than anywhere else I have been in Asia. Low beams are for wimps and are only used when flicking high beams on and off to get others attention. Indicators are rare. Who gives way seems to be a test of nerve sort of like Chicken, they seem to get as close to crashing as possible before someone pulls out and decides the other can take it this time. Red lights are completely meaningless as are pedestrian crossings. Speed bumps appear out of nowhere with no warning or signage, so that you find either your driver constantly slows down for what seems like no reason till you spot the speed bump, or you get airborne without warning.

Anyway Mikna's family are all out now so I am going to try to figure out how to get some breakfast. Their servant is here but frankly I am a little scared of her and not sure how to communicate with her, as they all speak Hindi to her (but English to each other). Also I feel bad trying to get her to make me some toast.

Hope you're all well. Let me know how you're all doing.