Sandra & Marcel, Day 13
Today was Diwali, which is a major Hindu holiday in India. For this reason Marcel didnt have classes today (his trainer had left to visit her family) and i couldnt do any sightseeing because Rajan wasnt working either. Rajan and his mother invited us to celebrate Diwali with them so we went into the city to buy some sweets and flowers.
While we were trying to find a flower shop we came past the tailor we already heared so much about by the other students. Since the tailor was open we went inside to take a look. It was nice, clean and cool inside and didnt look much different than a european shop.
None of the ready made suits was exactly what we were looking. A nice guy came to our assistance and promised us to make the perfect suit and then started showing us lots of fabrics. I can tell you its pretty hard to design a suit just in your imagination and by looking at tons of fabrics. After looking through all the racks with fabrics we finally found one that matched our picture of the perfect suit. Now we “just” had to figure out the design, specials and extras we wanted to have and another guy came to messure Marcel from top to buttom and all around. Et violá the suit was basicly done for 6885 Rupees (3000 Rupees for the work and rest for the fabric) which was 110 Euro at todays rate. They told us to come back on Thursday for the fitting and we were really looking forward to it 
In the evening Rajan picked us up at the hotel and we went to his house. After a heartly welcome and giving out our presents we sat down for some smalltalk and a drink. Then it was time to lighten candles which were brought to a provisorily altar in the kitchen.
Aftwerwards we sat down at the table and Rajans mother started cooking alot of different indian stuff for us. Unfortunately none of it was really our taste, like most of the food we had in india so far. Then she brought us indian sweets which tasted like pure sugar and weren’t our taste either. After dinner we went upstairs on the roof terrace to enjoy the fireworks.
