Goa-Trip

The Goa trip was simply awesome!!!! :)
It was very spontaneous, so it turned out that it is very very difficult to get train tickets one week before the journey... I went to the booking office, stood in two wrong Queues, finally got the information that there is no ticket left, I should come again in two days at eight in the morning to try to get Tat kal tickets, some kind of emergency ticket... luckily a fiend also informed himself for us and got the last two tickets.... I was so relived!!!
Then the journey could start on a friday, coming back on tuesday. But of cause, what I didn't change in India is my capability of always coming in the last minute...
This time I was waiting in someones home that we can leave together, but that took its time, also to find an auto. nobody wanted to go our way... finally I came to office, Thabea was already writing me dangerous messages (If we miss the train, I'll kill you!!!) and I had to pack my luggage as fast as possible. I think I took 3 minutes... (which means that I forgot some more things of cause)
Finally great Shashi and Bosavar safed my life and our holiday by taking us by vehicle to the near by railway station. Thabea and me entertained around one hundred Indians by running up the stairs and down again to reach the other end of the station before the train leaves...
There we called the boys, Thabea went nearly crazy saying "This is not the right platform!" but finally they found us. They had our tickets... All of them were complaining they hate us causing such a trouble, after Thabeas explanation they only hated me. And really, after two minutes sitting in the train it moved on.

-story continues in some days- -maybe never-

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Halli Hallo hier bin ich wieder!
Aber etwas internationaler... denn ich habe immernoch keine Zeit gefunden einen neuen Blogeintrag zu schreiben, immerhin arbeite ich acht Stunden am Tag. (mehr oder weniger)
Aber ich habe die Aufgabe einen Volunteer Blog mit Texten zu fuettern, was ich jetzt auch mal getan habe. Der ist natuerlich in englisch, aber da muesst ihr alle durch. Ich bin eben in Indien ein internationaler Volunteer und ein par Freunde haben sich schon beschwert, dass ich meinen Blog nur auf deutsch habe. Es ist ja auch fuer Inder interessant!
Schaut also bitte bei dem Link "Sama Volunteers" vorbei und lest euch meinen Artikel in "cultural differences", "Mine and Yous", "Indian Family" and "Marriage" durch. Nach einem halben Jahr habe ich mich nun heran getraut dieses schwierige Geflecht fuer Westler moeglichst klar darzustellen. Bitte kommentiert, wenn ihr noch Fragen habt, etwas nicht versteht oder Ergaenzungen wollt.
Liebe Gruesse
Mareile