Indian randomness!

oh what an amazing time!!! let's start talking about the party on friday...first of all I met these two French men, they were really nice, we were talking in french and it's really true that when I'm tipsy my french gets incredibly better;) so I asked them what they were here for, and they're like "business"...cool, what kind of business? they say something in french I had no clue of...question mark face...clarification: cannabis. ah! THAT business! so I met two french drug dealers! weird! I should have gotten phone numbers...whatev! but the funny part of the party was when Marisa, a brazilian girl, start singing "asisisimanga asisisimanga manga manga" and suddently Robby, another German girl and I started singing along! AIESEC connection! if you're not in AIESEC you have no clue of what I'm talking about, but it was goosbumping to see how a stupid simple song is being sang in 4 different countries at AIESEC conferences!!! the other trainees were looking at us like we were from another planet...AIESEC planet;)

On Saturday I had to work, but in the afternoon I went to the Pink City, the old "touristy" part of Jaipur that I hadn't seen yet...wow!!! It is so beautiful!!! All the walls around are pink, and it's so crowded, loud, colorful, full of bazars that sell EVERYTHING...there was also a little store with a sign "we sell the best cock!" I was tempted to get in but something got in the way and I didn't...I'm kind of curious on what they meant!!!

Sunday then we went to Sanganeer, a village that is incorporated in Jaipur where they make hand-made paper...it was very interesting to see the process! Then we saw another factory where they do block-printing...I'd never been in a factory before, and it was nice to visit a non-touristic part of Jaipur...people were incredibly nice, explained us everything without asking any money, they made us try to print images on a piece of fabric...very very nice! then we took a bus back and we were supposed to play a soccer game "AIESEC trainees vs AIESECers". So Jan Marsha and I got there a little earlier, bought some fruit and ate it on the field...we really looked like animals! at one point we all looked at each other, sitting on the grass, all dirty and sweaty, our faces hands and arms completly orange from the mangos (here fruit is delicious, and mangos are heavenly!) and we started laughing...how could we ever come back to the western world if we enjoy so much this no-confort? then we washed ourselves from this little water fountain where the cows were drinking from...it was really surreal! and it was especially quite, which it was the first time in India I felt a quite and calm surrounding! then Marsha and I had to go the bathroom and that was an interesting experience! First of all: finding a bathroom. We were in the University campus (by the way, I'm impressed how much it looks like an american university campus! it really made me feel like at home....home? let's call it Columbia cause I still have to figure out where home is!) so we ended up in the guys dorms (ok, I guess Marsha and I have a particular instinct to find of all the buildings the guys dorms!). It was empty cause the students are on holiday right now, but we found the bathroom and I can only make you imagine the condition of an empty guys' dorm bathroom...I don't know how I did it, but I survived! Anyways, after our bathroom experience we realized we were at the wrong football field and the others were playing somewhere else...so we asked a guy if he knew where the football field was "oh, there is no such a thing" "DUDE, we just came from one!" "oh ok, then it's straight ahead" indians will seriously tell u whatever! they don't care if it's right or wrong, they just like to give directions! so, not suprisely, we got lost...Jan stopped this motorcycle biker to ask for direction and they started talking...so Marsha and I got closer and we heard them speaking in German!!! An Indian guy, randomly stopped in the street, who speaks perfect german!!! Indian randomness! We found out he's the german professor at the University, he invited us at his house to meet his wife and daughter, offered us beer and dinner and it was such a nice evening! His wife made pasta for us and it was delicious...I realized I drink more beer that a german guy and a german professor...oh god! Anyways...he also gave Marsha and I a little german lesson (man, who would have ever imagined...a german lesson in India!), and then Jan asked him to guess our ages...he got Jan and Marsha's ages right, but guess how old he thought I was?!!? 25 to 27!! ahhhhhhh that's old!!! I was shocked and he was pretty embarassed as well! Maybe he even tried to guess younger...I guess it's kind of good cause I usually like guys of that age or older anyways;) but still!!!...the evening itself was one of the best here in India...the professor talked a lot, about India, Europe, people's behaviors, differences, experiences, racism, condition of women...it was so interesting! I realized I'm really a learner...I think the world is dived in two kinds of people: teachers and learners. I just love to learn, listen to what anybody has to say...and that just explains my attraction to the teacher kind! I can just sit down and listen to them for ages, satisfying my thirst for knowledge...After the dinner, we were supposed to meet other friends at Mocha, a hookah bar...I was so excited! Finally smoking shisha again!!! we were waiting for a rickshaw when this really nice guy in a white taxi WITH AIR CONDITIONED offered us a ride for basically free! He was so nice! Basically he organizes sight seeing tours and he wanted us to have his phone number in case we were interested...but in the mean time we got to ride on an AC proper car!!! sometimes confort has its advantages;) in Mocha we had a really good time, smoking shisha again was perfect and beautiful, and then two indian guys who were sitting right next to us joined our table...one of them was a magician and made us tonz of tricks...they were so good! i was like 1 foot away from his hands and couldn't see where the trick was! so good! he changed 10 rupies into 100, made other card tricks...I was such a kid and was so excited! then he had all of us stand and right in front of us he lifted himself from the ground FLYING!!! I'm not joking, and there was no drug in the shisha, I swear!!!

Sunday was seriously one of the best days of my life, so full of nice people and random adventures! I laughed a lot and I really realized how people really can make a difference in your everyday life changing an ordinary day in an amazing time! Marsha and I couldn't really sleep so we staied up talking until 2.30 in our beds...it reminded me so much on Steph and I, or my sister and I...it's so nice to have such a close friend already!

I'll finish today's post with a not very nice experience I had today. Last night Daniela and I were hanging out in our house with two indian guys...nothing weird, just friends and we know that we can trust them (especially Daniela has been here for 9 months already!), but this morning one of the security guys of my house wanted to talk to me, and told me that they cannot come anymore...I was shocked, what did they do? he said that our landlord said that INDIAN GUYS cannot come in the house after 11, but other trainees can! I got so mad and really wanted to fight with him! why? that's PURE DISCRIMINATION! and the security guy is indian as well...doesn't he understand? I hate rules in general...stupid rules then! I just cannot stand them! Only white guys can come in the house after 11, what kind of non-racist reason can u give me to that?I'll need to have a talk with my landlord...

Anyways, today's post was very long cause it's 12.30 right now and the internet in the office is
not working and I really don't know what else to do;) Hope everybody is having a good summer so far!