My time in India is coming to an end. I've spent the last month traveling around this vast country and it never ceases to amaze me. India is a country that you grow to both love AND hate. I love both the surface and depthness. It's so hard to describe India in words, each place is so different from the other. In Bangalore, you can experience the growing culture of the middle class through the IT industry and a Kerala backwater village you can experience the lives of people who make a little over $200/yr through their rope making, canoe building, fish catching businesses. I met an old woman who made Rs. 30 for 8 hours of rope making working 7 days/week. In dollars, that's $0.70 per 8 hours of labor. In one month she earns $20, and one year $235. I had heard about people making this much but never thought I would actually meet someone. I am still in shock.
In one month, I'll be returning to Portland, OR. I accepted a position with Intel US. I look forward to returning home to start a life with Brandon and Kylie together. This has been an amazing last year, filled with every type of emotion possible. I've experienced all the ups and downs with moving to a developing country and if I could do it again, I would!!! I will miss all the amazing people I've met here from local Indians, to British, Irish, Israelis, Germans, Australians, French, Swiss, Danish, Americans, they are all here in India. It definitely takes a unique person to experience India as India itself is truly complex.
Well, I'm now busy preparing for my repatriation. That too, is not simple. Nothing is ever simple here.
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I spent the last 10 months in Bangalore, India working for an multinational company. I just returned to Portland, OR, USA on a transfer. I miss India but I am excited to be home. Life's adventures does not stop here though. I plan to have many more geo experiences like India. Let's see where I will go next.....
3 comments:
Hope you had a good time, Cecilia. This experience should look good on your resume. You should be able to leverage Indian IT for anything you need from Portland, OR.
hi cecillia,
i had been following ur posts from sometime...it is sad that you are leaving ...i had always wanted to know how my country is viewed by a foriegner...it was a wonderful statement you had made when you said " I return to Bangalore, my alternate reality."
does ur return also mean the end of this blog ?
bangalore will look forward for your re-visit and probably a longer stay!
Cecila, it seem like you are from Vancourver. As i am planning to come over there, can we get in touch through mail. PK
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