well, where to start to give all the overwhelming impressions words...
not that easy, because before you can put thoughts into words one/I need to have them kind of organized in my mind...
the very first day (tuesday but in fact wednesday at 3am here in dehli) started very surreal...to read, to hear, to see (movies, pics) a lot prepare u in a way but to feel it on your skin, see with own eyes and over all, to witness yourself affected by the "new circumstances" new-different reality...
this is boosted by "flashbacks" --> thought like "yesterday i still walked through fancy Munich, 2 days ago i ve been in afritz, with my parents, 3days ago i still hugged my brothers baby...2 weeks ago I ve been still in Erasmus life in tampere, Finland. surreal! Its like this different worlds/realities are blurring/overlapping... Sometimes I feel deeply, vivid remembered and I fill like I am back in my time in Nicaragua, Central America, in a way...of course its different, particular!
more and more i get used to it...and the picture i get here becomes more sharp...BUT, of course, the inherent "depth of field " (Tiefenschaefe" / comprehensive idea whats going on here....no to be realistic i also after my two months i will achieved to "have" it...but as long that i try, go for, gain, strive....it s the right attitude...
on my secound day, Thursday, 10.06 picked up Hannah (21, UK) from airport. Well we met in finland, studied together, had the same idea with traveling to India, so we travel together...lets see how s going... also because i am pretty convinced that to absorb, to organize everything u experience challenges your mind and you need time and to be lonely in a way to achieve this...
and on the 23rd of june we both will collect Malte (GER,24)from Gandhi dehli international airport...
some thoughts...
loud, overcrowded (opposite of finland:), whole personal life is on the street, daily life works although there is sometime no "rational" reason (e.g. electricity. traffic, market, buses....) soo many faces, colorful...I fell like picked up in my daily life in austria, finland, europe and drooped into here...also when u leave the busy scenery of the street to a small side street....suddenly it so calm....unrealistic silent...sometimes not that hot...anyway, back on the street its like dropped into again... people are that hard working on the street, bazaars...you see people begging...for sure there are begging people also at "home" but they are in a very very bad ""shape/condition""... you see "cows" on the street, the skin covers the pones... even though the life is busy, chaotic on the streets, there is some "calm, patience" in the peoples eyes...kind of waiting of/for somethings....yes, it seems timeless... since i am withe, blond i cant be "inconspicuous" hence i am a potential client for everything, ie. rickshaw, goods, food, everything... sometimes like today (Fr, 11.06) at "red fort" sarah, women from Mumbai(here in dehli for few days accompanying her husband since he`s a businessman) with her small niece Narah started to speak to us in a very trustful, symphatic way...she is muslim but she do not carry a hijab neither a headscarf...-"i dont need it to live/follow my religion"- we keept speaking, we went around, she shew us the place next to the Jama Masjid mosque and the surrounding bazar... she offered us juice and wow...was very pleasant to met her...
well, tomorrow, saturday 12.06 we taking a train heading to Haridwar -("Haridwar is regarded as one of the seven holiest places to Hindus", Wikipedia)- to the north..to the river Ganges. We like to make a kind of round trip by bus, train, hiking (at least i like to do so...:) also to Rishikesch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishikesh
Manali (Mountain landscape)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manali
Dharamsala/Mcleod Ganj (Home of Dalai Lama,etc)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mcleodganj
Amritsar (on Pakistan border and home of golden temple, religious center of Sikh)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amritsar
i am very eager to read your comments, ideas, thoughts...
(ps i also add descriptions to the pictures on picasa (link is in the "arriving" post... keep in touch
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