Sunday, February 7, 2010

A Milestone (of sorts) & Surprise Developments

First - the "Milestone (of sorts)": after a rugged transition from India to U.S. (scheduled departure 3:00 AM Wednesday, 1/20, scheduled arrival LAX 3:30 PM Wednesday, 1/20 [it's the dateline thing that causes a 22-24 hour flight to depart and arrive on same day!], but due to fog delay and a cascade of human errors, we finally arrived at LAX at 3:30 PM on Friday 1/22), last night (2/6) we had our first, regular, uninterrupted sleep! Yeah, jet lag is over!

Second - "Surprise Developments": we recently discovered that on the day of our arrival in LA (1/22), the Indian government released "clarifications" regarding their new visa policies and regulations. We are now more confused than ever ; it appears neither our current visa - nor the alternative we were preparing - will be suitable based on these new descriptions. We have a de-brief with our leadership scheduled for Monday afternoon; we're hoping things will begin to clarify from that.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Photos From BRT II

These are some photos that go with the previous post. Notice the size of the room!