so things are reall starting to pick up in bangalore. once i got settled in from all the craziness of the first week i kind of had to wait around to see what was going to happen with work and a few other things. i wasnt sure if the guys at the office were going to keep taking me out every night or if i would have to figure it out for myself. turns out im on my own and im going to have to make my own plans every night. i figured this out around mid day and decided its time to bring back my social butterfly side that few have scene and even fewer remember. most of you that know me know that i like my group of friends and if your not in it then i really don't care to much about you. i can only think of a few times in my life when i have intentionally tried to meet people and malke friends, the main one being freshman year of college. it looks like im going to have to turn it on again to make this the best experience it can be. ive decided im going to have dinner with a different person every night, even if it means cold calling people. it always takes me a week or two to find out why im at these kinds of places, other than the obvious reasons. the work is great, i get a lot of time with the ceo and am doing important projects, my weekends are going to qnd have been nuts, but the week nights have been slow since i got to bangalore. ive decideed thatr the reason im here is to do one of my least favorite things, which is network. i want to have friends all over the world and this is a good place to start, plus i want to learn as much as i can about india and meeting its people it probably the best way.

About ten minutes after deciding this was what i was going to do i found myself on the list of a bollywood party on the roof of a local mall. i also called up a american named laren and had dinner with him at a really great indian restaurant. after dinner we went tp the party, had a free beer, and watched crazy indians mashing to techno. while we were at the part the monsoon finally showed up, a few days late, and i have never seenanything like it. laren and i caught a rickshaw back together and it was seriously the equivalent to white water rafting. withing 15 minutes of starting the water was ankle high and in the parts of the city that were lined with shops waves crashed back and fourth between the walls like a wave pool as a water park. i have never seen so much water pile up so fast, its still pouring. i felt very close to the driver after he dropped me off and we had conquered the flood, probably the last time ill feel a positive emotion for someone who had ripped me off so bad. going to work should be interesting if this rain keeps up.

im not sure exactly where i am going this weekend, but check it out at areno.org. im driving out there with the guys who started the camp to do some trekking, rafting, camping, all i the rain forest. i dont know much about it except it looks awesome and ill be with a bunch of indian guys, always promises to be interesting. im goin on a business trip with the ceo next wed-sunday to chennai, tamil nadu. he grew up there so he'll show me around a lot, he is heading back saturday and sending me to fishers cove for a day in "one of the most serene places in the world". he didnt really say that, sorry, it will be cool though. also very hot there.

im spending this whole week getting the model ready and next week on the business plan. im enjoying it and everything will be that much better now that i know ill have plans at night and such. ill write again after the weekend, love everyone, still havent gotten any phone calls from anyone on skype!