Sunday, August 28, 2011

In the house

Just a quick update, seeing as it's late. But we are all in the house now - it's been 30 hours or so and it's starting to feel like home. We got everything out of our air shipment boxes, and have moved the boxes out of the living room, and have only 2 or 3 cases to unpack. We're a bit low on furniture, having a table and four chairs, a sofa and two beds, but we have kitchen stuff and the kids have toys and their scooters, so we're doing pretty well. After a month in the hotel it's been great to spread out a bit, and have home-made meals! The weather is just great, and it makes me very happy to open the doors to our little garden, with palm trees, flowers and fruit trees.

Our maid starts tomorrow - she came by the house last Tuesday and seems pretty nice. My company did a background check on her, which involved an interview, checking her school certificates and other documentation, and talking with previous employers, and she seems to check out pretty well. So Emma will have the next few days learning how to ensure that the house is cleaned six days a week (with marble floors and the general dust of Bangalore you really need it cleaned that often). We also have a new driver who started on Saturday. The last one seemed like a nice enough guy, but he had such limited English that I was concerned he wouldn't be able to handle taking the kids somewhere and dealing with things if someone got sick or there was an accident or even minor change of plans. We also had a couple of incidents when I was in the car (he didn't answer his phone for half an hour a couple of nights ago while I was out with some guys from work, leaving me stranded in central Bangalore, and the next morning he side-swiped the car) so that was enough and it was time for a new driver. Mahesh seems much better so far - we'll see how things go over the next week or two. We haven't yet told the kids that he has a DVD player in his car!

1 comment:

  1. Oooh a maid - now I am jealous. Lucky Emma! Happy homemaking X

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