22 April 2008

It was a busy day today. Some teaching, interviews, phone calls and camera driving instructions. The students were great. They are really into this next brief. One of the lads who started the course very unsure of computers, has already done his photographs for the iPanorama project and is giving it his best shot at editing them in Photoshop. Another student only started at the beginning of the week. Fortunatley he already has some skills in Photoshop.
I needed to interview each student to see which diploma they want to study in NZ. This was an interesting process. The students were really wanting to know what I thought . Its quite hard to get them to not take the submissive role.
We had a possible tutor for my replacement. He has studied in Auckland for two years and has a degree in Design. (Not that you think so based on the work he sent us via email). I talked to him on the phone for a while. He lives in Delhi. Once I had finished, I talked to Khilandeep about him. Khilandeep informed me that he had already told him that he has a job in banking. (Not sure whether he was telling him that to try and up his wages). I guess we will see. He may come up to Ludhiana in the weekend and talk to the team.
Towards the end of the day, I showed Gurpreet how to use the video camera and download the footage.
After work we headed out for a drink and dinner. (I had the dinner, they had the drinks. Well, OK, I had a wine. They have been teasing me all month. I told them when I arrived that I drink an occasional glass of wine. How often, they asked. About once a month, I replied. They suggested that I might want to borrow a few from the up coming months). We went to one place, but they didn’t have a chilled white wine. I was happy not to bother and just have a coke or something, but Gurpreet wasn’t. She wanted the best for me. So, we left and went to another restaurant. This place was quite nice and they did know how to chill wine. Even the glass was cold. The dinner was really nice. I had veges in a white sauce. I could have eaten the whole plate full but Khilandeep wanted to try some. Still, by time I had some icecream, I was quite full and ready for bed.
At the hotel, I took a while to order my suitcases and make sure I hadn’t lost anything. Its amazing how things get spread about when you’ve been in one place for a while.
Khilandeep was organising the hotel bill and discovered the mystery of the two bottles of beer and chicken meal. It turns out that the believe was that I had ordered it. A far cry from icecream. At around 11.30pm the porter knocked on the door and asked for the two bottles of beer back. I still had one in the fridge, but the other one he had opened on the night so the cleaners had taken it away.