Marcel, Day 5
As the driver screwed me last time and showed up a quarter to 9 and letting me wait for 30 minutes, i decided to try the new time and hey it worked. Not as it was supposed to, since a different cab from Koenig picked me up, but so what .. 
Today i was asking my trainer about her name again and even got her to write it onto the board but unfortunately not in one of the corners, so we could keep it there. So it was like usual for teachers, “here i show you”, scribles at the board, “this is my name, got it? cool”, and then swiped it off the board again. So everything i can remember right now was something like Swali. For some reason it reminds me on How i met your mother.
Update: It’s Swati!
Well, either way i got to ask her a few questions that bothered me and here are the results:
- It’s unbelievable but Indians have to make a driving license too, yeah, even a test. They can also take classes to LEARN driving. I suppose that is no real business tho.
- It is not a law or in any way mandatory to sing in indian movies. Even though they do it all time because people like it.
- Power is not stable and power sockets suck a lot because the plug keeps dropping out all the time.. but at least the european plugs work without any adapter in between. I still think the multiple socket bar i got from the LIDL with extra overvoltage protection was a good invest.
- Oh and thanks to some friends of mine, i got a hint regarding my Lufthansa seat problems. If you ever need to fly, here is a plan for almost every seat and its type (good, bad etc.), every plane and every airline. This one is for my Lufthansa Jet: — See what seats you gonna get — . Thank you Ralf & James.
- At the 28th october, India is celebrating Diwali, a festival compared to europeans christmas and i am really looking forward to it. I found out it is the festival of light and they celebrate the victory of good over evil. People will have lights around their houses, you will hear firecrackers and people trying to dye your cloth on the streets Btw. I am happy to let you know they don’t sacrifice virgins, sheeps or any kind of creature for their gods… just candy will do! awsome religion
- In combination with the fact above i was talking about the breathtaking fire some indians make in front of their houses to burn something. My trainer said it is either still stuff from the last festival which was on the 9th october or already preparation for Dawali. Well we dumb europeans again, we still believe indians just sweep their garbage together and burn it to get rid of it.
- I was also asking about the Cows standing around everywhere. Are they coming from the wild? being holy creatures, do they live in the wild, get born in the wild? Of course not, i was told they have a real owner which cares for them
- The last info i got today was, that we could also book trainers from India and have them come over to Germany to teach us. Since noone ever has enough time to attend a full day training because we are usually too few to get the current work done, this could be an option. On the other side we would probably need to split such a training over a couple of days and sacrifice 2-3 hours a day of the normal work schedule.
The rest of the day was pretty fine. We went to Mc Donalds with a group of dutch students we met today. The McDonalds in India is kind of funny, it has only a very short list of burgers and its basically all either vegetarian or chicken. It also seems to me that diet coke does not necessarily replace sugar with sweetener, but you can also just use less cola and add more water! It wasn’t even black anymore! On the positive side it kept us from drinking too much of it, because it had ice in it which should be a XX( NOGO 
in India. The chicken burger were pretty much ok, at least for now, i can’t say for sure till tomorrow 
Then we went upstairs to the famous black pepper again for the usual drink of disinfection in the evening 
The day of my wife was a complete different story. I heard her using the word. LEGENDARY.
