And the first day has passed!

First day in the Watermelons Field, and I should say that it has been a good day.

I expected a slow starting, with a lot of device delivery, software installation, configuration check.... Instead in just a couple of hours I was ready and active!
A new laptop, the secure card configured, the email account activated, the access to Jira up and running, what else? All working and with just a little help from the new colleagues which have been all very kind and available to support me in my first steps in the new environment.

Strange feeling: how long will I take to feel myself not an alien in this place? How long will my skin take to became green?

The place is quite different from the Orangery: a bit more closed, with less colors and fashion places... And from a statistical point of view with less women and more Indians....
In the Orangery I was used to have many women around, compared to usual IT/DevOps environment, so from this point of view the ratio here is more "normal". What a pity... 

But most of all yes: there are really a lot of Indians around, even if they are not the only nationality present.
In my team at the moment we are: 1 Italian, 2 Indians, 1 Iranian.
In the neighborhood there are even 1 English, 1 French, 1 Spanish, a number of Dutch, and many many other Indians too.
But the real evidence of the wide presence of Indians, bot physically and virtually (that means working from remote in India) is that all around the building there are many wall clocks on the timezone of Mumbay!

One little problem: I don't have a locker, and the desk policy is of real "open desk policy" so I have no place to store anything, not even my mug and my tea bags... How can I have my good tea instead of the standard company taste-less one?
I'll have to find a solution to bring with me everyday my mug and my tea without occupy too much space in my backpack!