Half way through the internship

Almost a week ago, on Monday June 29th, my 7th week (out of 12) in India began. Since then I have a feeling the pace of my life here doubled. And it actually kind of did. As I've already outlined in the previous post about my job, since July 1st onwords I've been giving classes on video editing, as a part of a movie making course for students of bachelor degree of Media and entertainment program ran by ITFT College (see the job post for further details on my employer). And I'm spending a lot of time on preparation - even outside working hours.
If there is time, I'd maybe write few lines about the course, not only because it completely over exceeded my expectations in terms of attitude of students and college management, but also because I have a chance to learn something I probably wouldn't have a chance to do back home. Just in short: the course will last throughout the whole July and comprises of video-editing class (by me), graphics & animation class (by Rosy, the 2nd intern), and camera handling class (by faculty guest).
This also explains why I didn't post anything during last week. First of all there were some evening activities/events almost every day, secondly I had to carry on my class preparation afterwards (for ca. 2-3 hours), which made me struggle with sleep deficit and overall apathy towards blogging:) Now I'm hopefully back to the old habits and will try to keep posting for at least 3 more weeks.

Me with a KFC Zinger sandwich.
Zinger menu proved to be the best choice - it comprises not only of a chicken sandwich, but also a reasonably big piece of fried chicken.

Daily routine
Some of you were asking how my day here looks like. Now, after almost 7 weeks, when it seems no big changes are on the horizon, I feel ready enough to answer this question.

- 7:45-8:00 - wake up
- then - bathroom stuff (as there is usually 1-11 more people in the flat (depending on who is traveling, who already left to work, who just moved in/out, and who is just staying over), the bathroom experience is fairly limited from time to time)
- around 8:15 - breakfast, usually toast bread with cheese spread and tomato (nothing else reasonable is usually available; in either case I need to make sure I bought everything before 9pm the previous day as all shops are closed after that time)
- before 8:30 - set off to work
- after 5-10 min - get on a rickshaw that takes me (and Rosy) to the Housing board (5-minute ride), big junction in between Panchkula and Chandigarh
- another 0 to 15 min - waiting at Housing board for another rickshaw or bus or whatever else that would take us to Chandigarh, sector 17, where the office is (15-minute ride)
- another 1 to 10 min - walking to the office, depending where we were dropped (sometimes it is necessary to take 1 more rickshaw to reach the office, however, such situation is rather exceptional)
- 8:45-9:55 - reaching the office (exact time depends on unpredictable elements of Indian transportation system; some of them have been described above)
- 5 more min - getting my water, just chilling at the AC (or trying to turn it on)
- then - working
- at around 13:00 (sometimes at 16:00) ordering a lunch at the reception desk, or leaving the office if eating out
- following 30-90 min - having lunch
- between 5:30 and 7:30 - leaving the office
- evening...

Evenings are pretty flexible, and of course cannot be generalized. However, we often go for a common dinner with other trainees, which usually takes up to 2 hours. From time to time, we go for a coffee, ice cream, or dinner with some colleagues from work, sometimes we go to theatre or cinema, sometimes we hit a club, or travel to (relatively) nearby places.

Rosy from Mexico, 2nd trainee in my company, in the morning bus.

What I enjoy
I enjoy the whole thing, being here, talking to people, observing cultural differences and trying to understand the country (so far I bel ieve I'm on the right track), and last but not least, I truly enjoy my job, having fun with my colleagues, and chilling with other trainees.
I hope there would be time to write a post about Indian culture, people and all these things related to a daily practice. There are things I really enjoy, but there are also things I don't like at all, or just cannot get grasp of.

Me in my bedroom/living room.

What I lack
I definitely miss a desk. That's it. I can't efficiently work just on the bed, without a proper chair and table. Of course I have these facilities at work, but I don't have time to get to my personal stuff there. Right now, I'm preparing for the September eastern European trip, am about to start looking for a flat in Prague, deal with my job engagements back home, and am trying to prepare for writing my diploma thesis this autumn. None of these is a big deal - it just takes triple time in these conditions.
And some more things, but not the substantial - maybe I'll share them later on.

Oh, I forgot to mention that after 6 weeks in the living room (see the previous post for more details), I eventually had a chance to move to a double room.
We can say that now I have the best bed in the whole flat: 1. it is the only double room (all 3 other double rooms were converted to 3- or 5-bed rooms); 2. it doesn't adjoins with bathroom nor balcony (as all the other rooms do), so no one transits through; 3. the metal door of the "safe" provides ultimate privacy:)
PS: I share a room with Collins from China (notice the feet).

Czech corner
Jak se nechalo tak trochu ocekavat, dostal jsem se do tradicni faze, kdy prestoze je jeste daleko do konce pobytu, je jasne, ze nestihnu dokoncit vse co jsem planoval. Jeste cca 10 dni zpet to tak nevypadalo, ale pote co jsem se zacal vice pripravovat na zminovany video kurz, a zejmena pote co tento kurz zacal, jsem s casem skutecne na stiru a mam pocit, ze jsem se stal "full-time trainee" - tedy mam dost casu venovat se praci a dalsim trainee aktivatam, ktere k praxi patri, nicmene to je tak vse. (Nutno podotknout, ze 90% vsech ostatnich trainees jsou "full-time trainees" a presto stihaji tydenni cestovni vylety a mnoho dalsiho ...ale kvalitu praxi nyni nechme pod poklickou.)
Rozhodne nechci ukrajovat z atmosfery internshipu, nicmene zaroven vim, ze pro ostatni veci zminene v anglicke casti tohoto postu take musim najit cas. Takze si udelam nejaky plan:)