#82 Keeping myself busy

Where am?  In my room at the Guest House at the Hospital.

How am I?  Happy but certainly busy with all my new technology.

Hi Everyone,

As I told you I ordered a new tablet, a Google Nexus 7. It’s arrived and I am going to have to play with it to learn how to use it. Nothing comes with instructions anymore. They just think you’re going to know how to use it by osmosis, or from the grandchildren I’ve been told. I don’t have grandchildren so I’m used to the old fashioned way of reading the book. But digital things don’t have books. 

Even my camera had no book!  There was a disk that I uploaded to my computer but you can’t take your computer with you while you’re out taking photos!  Oh yeah, now the phones are miniature computers so you CAN take it with you. Well I can’t.

However, on the same day that I got the call that my Nexus had arrived to pick it up, I got a new phone.  It was a surprise to me, believe me. What happened was I have been thinking about my phone and what to do when I get back to the US. I had a “dumb” phone, not one of those Smart Phones. So I’m in the auto rickshaw with my friend doing errands, going shopping when she mentioned that she needed to buy a phone for a young Indian man she has kind of adopted. AND IT HITS ME!  Buy myself a new phone and give my old phone to him. So I told my girlfriend and the next minute we’re at a shopping complex that sells nothing but phones and accessories for them and I’m picking out a phone. 

Didn’t want an iPhone, and the Samsung was too expensive too, but I found a Lenovo for under US$ 75 and I got it. A Smart Phone that I put into a bright pink case to protect it and also to help me keep track of it. You can't miss seeing this bright pink phone case. Two days later and I still don’t know how to use the darn thing. My fingers are too big that when I push the letter I, I get an O. and for N I get a M. 

Another friend asked if I had called her and I didn’t know I did. She sent me a msg and I answered "Not Intentionally".

So now I have to learn two new pieces of technology before I leave India. But the phone will come in handy in Australia, and other places, including the US when I get home.

Meanwhile I went to lunch today and I don’t know what it was that I ate – obviously a curry – but afterwards I needed to drink a cold Lemon drink to cool off my mouth. And even as I am typing now, the skin on my right hand is still stinging. We eat with our hands here and whatever hot chilli was affecting my mouth, is also affecting the skin on my fingers. It could be worse, right? Ha Ha

I think I’ll close for now and post this. If there are any questions or things that you want to know about India, please email me and let me know.  We’re getting down to the last days so speak now.

Enjoy yourselves, wherever you are and whatever you’re doing.

Love, Marie.