Getting Started

My dear friends,
this is now my firs post of my experiencens of my stay in India, more precise, in Bangalore at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS). It is right, I finally did move to India, and I plan to stay here for the next two years to do some solid research, but also to explore a bit of this huge and magnifique asian country. To share with you a part of those experiences, I will try to write frequently some lines into this blog...

After my arrival at 0.40 am on may 4 2011 at the Bangalore Int. Airport, I was picked up by a polite driver and brought to the guest house of NCBS. It was a quite warm night with thick humid air, and I could not fell asleep easily but the next morning was beautiful and I got up after 4 hours of sleep to have breakfast at the canteen. Aparently I was too early, even though I was already 8.40 am, because I was quite alone in the diner hall. And also in the lab, only two persons were already there. But a short while later, my new boss arrived and I could start struggling with Indian paper work. It was quite ok, much less chaotic than french bureaucracy (at least until now). I got my new room in the Mandara hostel, where the PhD candidates live, and my apointment to the medical doctor for the next day.
In the evening I went to Mandara hostel quite early to have the time to walk around and to buy some stuff. I enjoyed so much to walk on the smaller, a bit dusty streets with loads of small shops selling mobile phones, clothes, spices or fruits. There is even a little park and beautiful old trees go along with the streets. Even though my room is small and spartanic, I do not regret having moved here for the first time. Just to confirm this positive feeling, I met in the night a couple of neighbours sitting on the terasse and having vivid conversations... but I have to sleep now, tomorrow will be my medical exam. good night.