Found out where I'm staying- "I Think!"

I think I will be staying at a place called SHILTON SUITES SERVICE APARTMENTS located 10 minutes from the office that I will be working out of in Bangalore. Try this link to see a little about it: www.nivalink.com/shiltonsuites/index.html

Flight Arrangements are Made!!!!

My flights have been arranged! I Depart Lincoln at 4:26 PM on Wed. Oct. 1st. and arrive in Bangalore at 11:30 PM local time on Friday Oct. 3rd. When I return, I will leave Bangalore on Sat. Nov. 8th at 12:30 AM and arrive in Lincoln the same day at 9:13 PM. In my travels I will stop in Denver, CO. ,Los Angeles, CA., Taipei, Taiwan., and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I'm ready for the adventure, and look forward to this opportunity.

Going Away Shin-Dig

Nickie put together a gathering of close friends to join us for a meal at Valentinos as a kind of going away celebration. All were happy to know that I'm going..haha

Why go to India???

Security and Intelligence Services of India Ltd.(SIS) bought the rights to conduct ServiceMaster Clean business in that country. Since I had previously served in the international division with ServiceMaster corporate, I was offered an oppportunity to work with SIS to establish there commercial cleaning business. I will be there for 6-8 months and will be coming home for a week every 4-6 weeks. I will be working as a consultant representing ServiceMaster Clean. You can check out SIS at www.sisindia.com.

More Interesting Details

-Twenty Four Major Languages spoken in India...

-Per Capita income = $3,800.00/year...... with 59 Billionaires

-SIXTEEN MAJOR RELIGIONS
-800,000,000 Hindus
-more muslims than in Saudi Arabia,Iran,Iraq, and Syria put together
-25,000,000 Christians (It is believed that "doubting Thomas" went to India)
-Other major religions include Sikhs,Jains,Zorastarians,Buddhists, Jews, etc.
-456,000,000 (42%) live in poverty of which 40% are children
-828,000,000 live on less than $2.00/day
-It is estimated that 40% of all economic activity occures "under the table"

Interesting Facts About India

This is the worlds cheepest car built by Tata Motors in India...

Introduction

Me relaxing in Fiji

I will attempt to keep all of those of you that are interested abreast of what is going on while I am in India. I do not have a firm departure date yet, but expect to travel between the 15th and 20th of September. I will post my travel plans as soon as they are set.

I am not a "tekno-geek" so I will stumble throug this blogging business as best I can.

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