My Journey to America

I was really excited about my journey to America; as I was able to fulfill my dreams of going to America. It took lot of time for me to achieve this. The
most important person I was missing my was my DAD. He would have felt really proud of me. Everyone in my home were really happy about it. All my Well wishers
wished me success and conveyed Bon Voyage.

My travel itienary was on 15th April 2006. I had to catch a KLM Airlines flight from Hyderabad at 3:00 am. I reached airport around 11:30 pm and met all my
dear one and went into it. It was first time in my life that I was about to board an international flight. i was really excited about it and little bit
tensed also that Did i missed out any imp. document. But everything at Immigration and Security check-in went smoothly. My flight journey is something like
this; Catch a flight from Hyderabad to Armsterdam; Then from Armsterdam to Detroit and then from Detroit to Syracuse. What a way to start my journey, I got
the Window seat and that too just above Wings. Flight started on time and i was watching all the surroundings very curiosly. It took 8 hrs 45 mts to reach
Armsterdam. I reached around 9:05 am (Local time) and need to catch the other flight at 10:05 am. In Armsterdam, I hardly stayed for a minute, it took 15 mts
for me to go to another terminal to catch the flight; I had a small briefing session and boarded the NorthWest Airlines flight (NWA067), which is a Sky team
partner for KLM. The best thing in the journey from Armsterdam to Detroit was that in each seat has a personal LCD screen. During my journey I watched two
movies and the food was ok kind of thing. In the flight I was given a form to fill i.e. I-94 form. It is the form needs to be filled by any person who wants
a entry in US. Completed the formalities and I reached Detroit around 12:45 afternoon (local time). Took some time near port of entry and Ihad to collect my luggage and move ahead to carry other flight. As there was little time for my next flight; I was little tensed that whether I would miss my next flight. To my fortunate, my next flight was delayed by 15 mts. So i was relaxed and took the flight and reached Syracuse around 3:30 pm. My Colleague Slupaul came to pick me and I reached the apartments safely around 5:00 pm.

So this was my experience about the journey. The best part of the journey was that all the 3 flights which i took, in all the three, I got a window seat. And the other most important point is that during my whole travelling in the air; I saw only the day light i.e I was around 20 hrs in air and all that time i saw was SUN. Quite interesting.
Guru

My First week in US

My First week in US.

The First step I have achieved of putting my step in America. The next thing is working with highly professionally folks here in my office. I had to work with the the datawarehouse team and i was aware of everyone here @ onsite. So it was not a problem for me to interact and work with them.

My first day to office, I went with other colleagues and reached office on time. The travel distance from my #apt to office is around 4 miles and it takes 15-20 mts to reach. The traffic rules and regulations here are completely the other side as in INDIA. Here as the driving at right side, so all the directions and road movements go according. This was a really funny experience for me. And you know for me, going to office and coming back is something like going to RAMOJI film city. B'coz all homes look like similar and each house has good lawn in front of them. And hardly we see people moving around, as everyone move in thier own vehicles. One more thing which I liked about the american culture is that everyone treats you with a smile, even if you are a stranger. This type of attitude really makes opposite person more comfortable.
People have so much courteousy that even for small kind of work/help you do, they appreciate a lot.

Well all the weekdays, I go to office on time and came back on time, so people really maintain the timelines and are very discipline in this area. Even in thier work also, they are so discpline that I felt that I have to learn a lot from them.

Coming to weekend, been to DOWNTOWN, area where we have all the shopping complexes, MALLS and other important offices. Our home is in the outskirts of the city, so we have very less trasnsportation facility. At this time, I really felt that I should have learnt car driving. Anyway as they said, its not delay to learn. I made myself a point that when I come to INDIA, first thing I do is learn CAR and take License.

So on the whole it was a exciting week, I was reall missing is my parents and friends over there.
Any how I'm calling them regulalry. So in this way, I may overcome the home sick.

Well Folks I will keep posting about my updates.


Luv,
Guru