Tuesday, December 25, 2007

First overseas travel

Dec-22, this was the day I was expecting for so long. It was the day of my first overseas travel. All the purchases, phone calls etc are done and I was ready to take my flight. Everything was a new experience.

Check-in, immigration, security check... so many checks before we enter the Artificial BIRD. Fortunately my flight(Jet Airways) was on time. Boarded the flight by 00:30 AM on Dec-22 and it took off by 1:20 AM. Transit was at Brussels(Belgium), it is here we could find the chillness of the weather. It is around 4 C, still couldn't manage it.

We four from our company were travelling in the same flight. We reached Newark @ around 11:40 AM. While reaching the place of stay it is around 1 PM. The same day myself, with Stalin and few other colleagues (Kumar, Arun, Kumar) went to Times Square and saw the tree decoreated for Christmas near Rock Filler building. Wandered around the Times Square for few hours.

Sunday (23 -Dec) total rain, which made us to stay back in PG. Morning went to a nearby Church and attended the MASS over there. Beautiful and peacefull church. Dinner at Indian Street, Journal Square. Had some spicy Andra food.

Monday (24-Dec) :Obviously my first day at work in Pershing. A bit late to office the first day itself. Literally the office is empty as it is festive season in US. One of my colleague (Ravi Kumar Lavadi) took 4 of us (Me, Naveen, Arun and Sendhil) to his house at Butlake. It was really a dream house. Wonderful independant house, with all facilities. He has dreamt of his house and each small things in his house are very beautiful. He took as to Bridgewater Venkateswara temple. Nice temple with large number of people. Nice evening at Ravi's house.

1 comment:

Naveen said...

First day at Pershing too late . . . too bad . . . I know u will be missing ur family too much . . dont worry boy everything ll be ok wen u r to India. . .