Hyderabad and BOM

hallo again.

the last couple of days I had way to less sleep and to many parties to attend. as my time is running out (only 5 weeks left) there´s still so much that i want to do. but lets start in telling you what i did these last days......
On wednesday i was invited to my boss´ place to see his wife and son again and spend the day with them. They live in a very simple house with one bedroom, small kitchen, bathroom and small livingroom. The parents sleep in the living room (the mom on the bed/couch and the dad on the floor on a blanket) and the son (Kenneth, 21 yrs old) in the bedroom. They are very nice people and care a lot about me. They always want me to come over and stay with them. This time I learned how to cook my first indian dish, tomato-curry. With a lot of ingredients that I def. have to take home from here ;-). It tasted really good! And finally I got the best hint on how to eat rice and curry with your hands from my boss. I will show you when I´m at home and we eat indian food, okay :-)? I spent the whole day there, talking to them, drinking chai (indian tea) and watching `Friends´ with Kenneth. Because they do have a huge tv........

i think i already mentioned that i work for this guy that gets western girls to work as bartenders at different events in almost whole india. on thursday night i worked again. me and 5 girls from pune flew to hyderabad (first by fancy car to Mumbai [BOM] and than by plane (!) to Hyderabad, by car/bus it would have taken us at least 12 hrs to get there). it was all payed for by the people that hired us! we had a huge guesthouse where we could stay and first relaxt there, as the flight was very early in the morning. Than we got food and picked up by the two cars to take us to where we had to work. Unfortunately there was no time to see more of the city except from out of the car-windows. The event was in this huge and beautiful hotel (intercontinental) and there was all high society from andra pradesh (the state of which hyderabad is the capital). there were flamenco-dancers, a live band with great singer, fashionshow with india´s topmodels, a lot of food and drinks. we had to stand behind the bar and help the indian waiters to serve the drinks.
(look at our outfit ------->, short skirts, hein?!)

It turned out to be a hard job as i didn´t know how much exactly to pour and people had this extraordinary wishes: "two ´teacher´s´ one with 2 icecubes, a little bit of soda and lot´s of water, one with lots of ice (how much is lots by the way????), half soda, half water,.... no! more water...stop! one more icecube....... stirr it...... blablabla. driving me crazy! and than of course in demanding tone. well, but there were nice people as well. after 2 hrs we had a small break and could eat some of their food, which was goooooood! finally fresh salad again and the dessert.... fabulous! that another shift and we went home at 2 am. the flight back to Pune was sooo early, that we could only sleep 2 hours. finally home at noon i went straight to bed.

(The other girls and me ------>)

the same night all my flatmates and me went by bus to BOM. Marc (the french guy) has an indian girlfriend who lives there and it was her birthday. we were all invited and had a great party there, which finished late, because we arrived only in the early morning hours (Pune-BOM takes ca. 4 hrs). The next day we had a look at a beautiful mosquee and than we went on a boatparty.
As BOM is situated on different islands the AIESEC-trainees from BOM had organized this. It was sooo much fun. I already new some of the people from different occasions, so it was so nice to see them again. And of course, a party on a boat that is driving on the the arabian sea with lots of new, nice people and good music was quite some experience. After that a lot of us went to a club which was also very nice. I went with some of the trainees to some place after that and they dropped me home safely. The good thing is, that I already have a place to sleep at some of the trainee´s flat when I meet Bine begin of november in BOM. Her flight arrives in the morning hours so I can go the day before and sleep there, which is of course much more convenient.On sunday we got up late and had a quick look around again before taking the bus and going home to Pune. All in all it was a very good, but also tireful wknd.

(Me and Frits from A'dam in the cab ------>)

Byebye!!