Wohkee I am back..tan tada!!! LOL!!
Lets see now I hope I haven't forgotten all what I wanted to blog about. So we went to Prof Breunig's place for dinner on Wednesday. We had to walk down...that was interesting, coz we had to follow his directions and I was reading the city map and guiding us. His house is actually in the centre of the city, but yet set in this very green and almost rural area by appearance at night time!! We reached there a bit early. But Stefan (the guy who amde the presentation a day earlier) was already there, so it wasnt awkward reaching early. Breunig immediately offered us wine or juices...no points for guessing that I chose the former. There was German wine and also Spanish wine...I ended up having 4 glasses in all, 2 of each.
Anyways the other guests gradually trickled in...and tho it was awkward initially I think we made some new friends that evening. I think this was a wonderful idea..this way we've made friends faster and it felt really nice to be invited to Prof Breunig's place, meet his wife, eat properly cooked food, talk to others besides us and Hardo....
Conversation flowed much more freely during and after dinner...which by the way was scrumptious. He had made 4 types of pizza. Saima and I really enjoyed the entire evening coz we liked the food and have no probs talking. Jigisha is our problem child..but I shall not dwell on that topic. I got talking to a guy named Bjorn who wants to come to India next year on the scholarship...interesting fella. Infact what amazes me is the amount these people know..I noticed this even in Hardo...they have quite a bit of knowledge about many topics...something lacking in most young people back home. Ofcourse the ignorant ones here are like REALLY dumb!! So maybe there are just extremes here...too soon for me to jugde anyways...plus not really in a position to judge.
Then thursday and today we didn't do much. Just basically lectures...and a little shopping...bought some gifts and did more exploring of the main city area. We've decided to start our sight-seeing next week and then start venturing out of the town..there is a Univ trip to Wittenberg next Friday...looks promising. Oh!!! Today's lecture was interesting...its on English in non-native contexts...I was in full 'josh' debating heatedly on who decides what is standard English etc etc...ofcourse all my post-colonial studies was guiding my debates...the prof was delighted to hear I'm a student of Dr.Bharucha...which reminds me..there are atleast three of Dr.Veveina's books in the library here. I was very very proud when I saw them...Three cheers for our profs!!! :)
Nothing much else. Its Diwali tomm, but obviously no big deal here. We have invited Hardo's parents over for dinner...not my idea...its gonna be stressful coz Hardo wont be there, and they speak no English as I've mentioned before...but we shall see....Gonna make pulav and dal, with yoghurt and suji ka halwa...pray it tastes fine!!!! LOL!!!
HAPPY DIWALI TO EVERYONE!!!!!
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