Day 5.
A beautiful Sunday, and finally a day where nothing was
planned… It kind of feels like we have
not had a day of relaxation since we got here…
I took the change to sleep as late as my body allowed me to. In doing so, I missed out on a trip with our
new driver who is apparently sort of a tour guide.
Hein and Lourens didn’t miss on the opportunity to go out
for a tour of Pune. Of course the driver
would take them to the one place I would have truly loved to see; the Hard Rock
Café. They also went to a little shop
where they found some nice looking Sarees and all the “I was in India”
novelties. A magician (again I’ll say
just an unlucky round for me) got Lourens and Hein to participate in his
show. He did some awesome flower tricks
together with a disappearing little white ball trick. I am a little sad that I missed out on seeing
it, but I won’t complain for the extra bit of sleep I got in.
We took a walk when they got back and found a small shop which
kind of looks like “Milky Lane” back
in South Africa. They had food of which
we could pronounce the name and drinks that you would get in an average coffee
shop in Sandton/Randburg and even Pretoria.
We got stuck in the nostalgia for a while before heading home to finish
up for the “Welcoming of the Big Bosses”
The drive to the hotel where we would meet the bosses (I guess
bosses isn’t exactly the right term, technically they are managers, but let’s
stick with bosses for this version of the story) was super interesting. Lourens and Hein took us to the shop they saw
earlier. It was as awesome as they
punted the place to be, very small but cool.
I found 3 sarees, also one of us found an awesome silver ring. We also saw a cool little wood-box which
seemed to not have an opening spot. We
fiddled around with it for a little while and then saw it had a secret opening…
pretty cool craftsmanship. The last
few minutes to the hotel were less impressive and for the first time we had a
driver that didn't honk at everything he saw on the road.
At the “Welcoming of the Bosses”:
The speeches were funny and we were deemed “Part of the team”. I got a chance to test out my Indian accent
in front of an Indian crowd… they actually didn’t feel offended and suggested I
speak that way more often as it might help people here understand me
better. We heard and told some awesome
jokes… apparently it is okay to joke with all sorts of random things here. Haha!
I also got my malaria pills (thanks Peter) and my
charger. I will never hear the end of
the forgetting trip… eish. And no one
left any jokes for later… I have already
been warned/reminded not to forget my charger in India. Thanks guys I won’t.
So all in all a good day, we didn’t get to bed too late, the
welcoming was awesome and again we got to see the full hospitality of all the
people in our team.
After that we basically sat and talked nonsense for about an
hour before going to bed at around 10pm... South African time…
-this was thought about on many
levels including novice, beginner and awesome
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