Today is Thursday and I started my morning by drinking 2 cups of hot Jasmine tea and eating a fresh banana for breakfast. Delicious!!! I feel healthier already.
The house cleaner showed up at 9:30 (typical start time for Indian jobs appartently). Everyone at work thinks Lance is an exceptionally freaky person for being at the office by 7:30 am which is a full 2 hours ahead of anyone else. Anyways, so the cleaner comes in and I ask (rather show him) that today we need to vacuum the rugs and dust. He doesn't speak much English but looks at me like I am from the moon, which probably isn't too far from the truth. He slowly takes up the broom and tries to sweep the rug. I look on dumbfounded. My American mannerisms have a direct effect. He stops and we share a few moments staring at each other and I try to figure out how to bridge the divide without a common language. I show him the vacuum cleaner. He takes two steps back from it like it is a Cobra about to strike. I look at its funny head and realize that to someone who hasn't used one before it must be a strange site indead. So I plug the hose into the central vacuum and the snake comes alive. He smiles ear to ear and keeps saying "Thak u mam." He then proceeds to use it on everything for the next 2 hours of cleaning...baseboards, stairs, curtains, marble floors, rugs. He loved it!!! I am not sure who he cleaned for before the Twittys arrived but appartently they didn't use a vacuum cleaner.
Now it is time for my afternoon yoga upstairs so as the saying goes...
"Get to your mat. Swim from your shore." Will you swim today or camp out on your shore?
The house cleaner showed up at 9:30 (typical start time for Indian jobs appartently). Everyone at work thinks Lance is an exceptionally freaky person for being at the office by 7:30 am which is a full 2 hours ahead of anyone else. Anyways, so the cleaner comes in and I ask (rather show him) that today we need to vacuum the rugs and dust. He doesn't speak much English but looks at me like I am from the moon, which probably isn't too far from the truth. He slowly takes up the broom and tries to sweep the rug. I look on dumbfounded. My American mannerisms have a direct effect. He stops and we share a few moments staring at each other and I try to figure out how to bridge the divide without a common language. I show him the vacuum cleaner. He takes two steps back from it like it is a Cobra about to strike. I look at its funny head and realize that to someone who hasn't used one before it must be a strange site indead. So I plug the hose into the central vacuum and the snake comes alive. He smiles ear to ear and keeps saying "Thak u mam." He then proceeds to use it on everything for the next 2 hours of cleaning...baseboards, stairs, curtains, marble floors, rugs. He loved it!!! I am not sure who he cleaned for before the Twittys arrived but appartently they didn't use a vacuum cleaner.
Now it is time for my afternoon yoga upstairs so as the saying goes...
"Get to your mat. Swim from your shore." Will you swim today or camp out on your shore?
I'll be swimming today, no question. Busy day for me, but wanted to take a minute to say I'm glad you're settling in. :) I can hear your 'voice' here and it makes me smile. Can't wait to see some pictures! x
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