status quo - ii

Fret not. I have a lot of free time (so to speak) hence the more frequent visits to blogger. For those of you who don’t know as yet, I quit Ajuba. I’m finally free to do all the things I wanted to before, only now I don’t have the need to. News update. I’m leaving on the 26th to Delhi and on the 27th to France. There’s a conference at Delhi on the 27th after which we leave to Paris at night. Onward to Dijon for me once I reach. I shall (hopefully) be received there by someone from the school (Lycée E. J. Marey, for those of you who can understand French you can check it out at: lycee-marey-beaune.fr)
I’ve been in touch with my contact at the school, a funny sort of bloke by the name Yves Michellon. Dead helpful when it comes to even the tiniest of doubts and terribly inquisitive when it comes to India (the guy actually corrected me and said ‘Chennai’ when I said ‘Madras’!!!!!). Nice.
The only things left now are the visa formalities and the health insurance that I need. I cannot apply for the visa without getting the insurance which I hope to be done with by the end of this week. So once that’s done all I need to do is book a day at the consulate at Pondicherry and get that over with. Fortunately for me the embassy’s taking care of the whole thing, the only things I needed to take care of were to get the proof of accommodation and get a policy. Almost done.
Now the real deal. I’ve been trying to get various articles and pretty much what I can lay my hands on when it comes to the great Indian culture. It has to be interesting, in English and should be informative as well. Cook books, comic strips, photos, languages, people, radio clippings, movies, you name it. I’ve also been worried sick about the fact that I have to COOK there!!!!!!!! (Enough said).