French Diary- May 14,2009

Ronan left today( for Brazil) and Nikhil arrived today.

I guess these are the only two big things today apart from me making more frnds( i guess after this intern i would have frnds from more than 10 countries), eating more french dishes( I tasted hot chocolate today),  more nain sukh prapti..

I have to cook my dinner now( Maggie ..)

see ya ..

PS: I forgot ,the biggest news is , I got a sgpa of 9.23 .

French Diary: May 13,2009( May 11 , 12)

Bon nuit!!

May 13, 2009(May 11, 12) 11:25 p.m
So, two days without blogging. Yesterday, was too tired and day before that a ‘man nahi kiya’ .So important updates in these two dates
1. I have got tones of work to do. Frederic has in short explained me what I have to do, basically a paper on peer to peer system under bandwidth constraints for two models, Queuing and matching. These two days I have been trying to get svn working on windows( Day1) and then finally have shifted to Linux.( one has to do a lot of things to get ssh client and other stuff, which I do not want to write down here basically I was trying to use Netbeans only but now has shifted to Eclipse). And then Markov chain models, probability funde , Latex revision and then bandwidth lecture by Frederic.
2. We cooked out dinner!!! basically these are ready to eat things, but even then you have to do lots of stuff. Today we went to Cafeteria at 8:30 and returned at 11 .While the rice were being cooked  , we played cards( Flash , Sweep ) and infi lukkha(IITB Lingo).We had Poha and Zeera Rice today along with Knor Soup and UTpam ,Maggi and Rajma-Chawal the day before yesterday. Yesterday we went to Mister Pizza( it is a small pizza joint in front of CIV) and had a Margherita and another one called Naponliane( both tasted horrible). Basically everything was cheese, there was virtually no base, no toppings over it, cheese and cheese and cheese (frumage). After we had Pizza, I clicked a picture of the place and all the workers were pleasantly surprised.( do not know why..)All three days, we had breakfast at CIV where you can choose three items out of many places there. I choosed Corn Flakes with milk, a yogart( that is something like curd) on one day and juice on another day, and the third one an apple. You can take as much bread( loafs) with butter and jam. So breakfast is pretty good. We take lunch at INRIA and whoosh !! you have so many things to eat and you do not know what to eat !!today in non veg , they had shrimps, chiken and another sea animal !!I have not tasted non-veg yet, relying on French fries and rice. If you are veg, you can take 4 other items. I usually take a desert( which mainly has fruits), a plate of salad( but have always left a 3rd of it), a slice of cheese( which I then put in a bread loaf ) and a fruit( usually an apple, so I am eating 2 apples daily ).At lunch , the entire team has food together and since most people are French, Brazilians, Spanish and Chileans you would hear a lot of French , Portuguese and Spanish on your table. Occasionally they stop for some time and ask about me . But people are good, when they feel, that I am also trying to listen to what they are saying, they start speaking english( although their English is not good) and try to in involve me in conversation. Today, Joseph , the guy who works in adjacent cabin, asked me about ongoing elections in India and asked me chances of Mayawati becoming Prime Minister..:).
3. Water, water everywhere not a drop to drink…( in reference to girls in france ) 
4. I have not been able to make a decent conversation with my neighbour. The maximum conversation we have yet is “Bonshour” . But I came to know that her name is Saima and she is in INRIA only in the team Ariana and the good thing is she does not look like French.
5. Co-ed bathrooms: You never realize its full potential until you see it in reality .Today in morning when I was waiting for Chirag and Dhakkad, a girl( when ever I say a girl add all the adjectives you use to describe beautiful girls ) wrapped in towel with wet hair passed in front of us and it certainly hit me that I have been living in co – ed!! I have been unlucky not to see any one in the bathroom( I have taken a bath on all the three days  ) but today, when I actually saw it , it was like wow! Assuming her to be north pole of a magnet, out necks were like south poles only hinged with our body.
6. Buses: We travel from CIV to INRIA through a Bus. And the bus drivers are mostly females with their goggles on and looking more like FBI agents. There is a bus called 100( it is completely pink in colour) which is free for everyone so we usually try to take that bus saving out one euro. If you travel in bus, you realize the true diversity in races, languages, ethnicity in france.( I have seen that in my hostel also..)
I think it is enough for today( btw , Cannes film festival has started and is till 24 May and Monaco Gp is on 21,23 and 24 May. Lets see …)

Bon nuit.