my story-introduction

Hi! welcome to my blog. Iam an Indian from a small town in the state of A.P.Following graduation,I continued my training in India and United Kingdom for few years before landing in the United Sates..I‘ve decided that if I‘m going to keep a ‘blog‘, then I‘m going to be as honest as I can be ,as throughout apart from my experiences, I‘ve amassed a lot of random information, and would like to use it,if it could help others.

To begin with moving to the US was a major worry for me.However, following a period of personal reassessment and growing concerns of job uncertainity in the NHS-UK, I was convinced these worries would be short lived, decided to put my trust in God and give my best shot.

Obtaining the US visa was a first postive sign! Since I still had a full time work contract with the NHS,I had the necessary documents on job details etc.So thankfully it was no pain.

One interesting thing was my first trans-atlantic flight experience.My flight was from London to philadelphia by US airways. The inflight experience was ok,until we were over Canada.Suddenly,there was an annoucement from the pilot saying they are making an emergency landing on a canadian (St.John's) island due to a medical emgergency for a passenger.The plane landed safely in the snowy land ... paramedics arrived and took a lady passenger on the stretcher to the local hospital. But later it took us nearly 8hrs at the airport to finish the formalities with canadian airbase ,The canadians neither allowed any of us to disembark the plane nor provided any refreshments.The pilot kept us uptodate, but he could only say they are trying and not to forget how kind the canadians were on the 9/11 for allowing many emergency landings,and providing accomodation for so many passengers.Well...we were glad,this ain't 9/11 ! The Crew could only give us water,some buscuits and most importantly the ear-phones free of charge(it was 5bucks otherwise) to watch the inflight t.v... what a relief!! Amasingly the passengers(both the old& the babies) and the crew all behaved well,although there were occassional cries.In the mean time my 02 mobile roaming-network got activated and I also managed to text/call my family to update on the situation.
Atlast ..when the pilot announced about getting clearence from canada...there came the joyful songs,shouts and applauses from all the passengers and a huge relief when we finally landed on the great nation, the USA. Well.. my journey has just begun !