EuroTrip - Day 31

Wednesday

For the time being, Wednesday is a comparatively chilled day in our life. We have no class in the morning slot and that means that we don't need to get up early. With one WC and 4 people in this place, it really is required to get up at unearthly hours to get ready for the morning class in time. And when we are traveling, early mornings (like 8am) are generally the time when we pack our bags and get down from the train.

So to enjoy the freedom that these Wednesdays provide us, we sleep till late. For record it means I get up at 8 and others at 9:30. :-)

Today was the day when I had meetings. The submissions are looming right there on our head and our multi-cultural study groups have ensured that we have no way to ignore them. Load to lena hi padta hai. So first it was meeting with the group for Marketing Strategy and then with the group for Consumer Behavior field work. Second one was rather interesting as none of us knew each other. We had decided to meet in the courtyard and so we reached there. It was our luck that 4 of us were present there since the planned time but all in the different corner of the courtyard. But the 'in search of someone' look gave away the clue and we could meet. You might ask, why did we not mobile or sms anyone? The simple answer to it is that firstly we did not have each other's contact number and secondly it's hell expensive to use cell phone here. In spite of this we could find each other and start our meeting. The students here take their assignments really seriously and their preparations for the meeting make you feel ashamed. Luckily today it was not like that. I had done my homework.

Our evening was dedicated to the prof for international finance who has allowed me to attend classes on a convenient day. This American man has his distinct sense of humor and brings his can of bear to the class. Last class he spent half the time playing with a balloon. His classes are interesting due to his ready wit. Here is a glimpse of what he shares with us: The Rule of 3-6-3 which basically says that in early days of banking the manager used to define their job as - "Take deposit at 3%, give loan at 6% and head to golf course at 3pm. Any IBanker there?

Pissu and gang has arrived. We are hosting anyone for the first time. It being start of the month as per our lease terms, it meant that our land lady could come home anytime to take the rent (and actually more importantly do the status check). We could not afford that today and thus the only option left to us was to 'take initiative'. And so we did it. We, like a bunch of good boys, went to her place and delivered the rent on the first of the lease month. And as we were leaving town for the day, the status check was postponed to a further date. We are safe now.

Getting out of home at 10pm with no thermals on (only jacket) was an experience in itself. It is freezing cold outside and one can not guess it in even his dreams if he has spent the whole evening in his cozy home. Me and PooCh had to face this reality today. And just because jokingly I had asked HotTiii to give the 'sex shop' as the landmark where we will meet Pissu and gang, we had to actually go there. They were right outside the shop where 'we had asked them to be'. I wonder when the thin lines between our jokes and reality vanishes.

The night was to be longer than the usual with so many people around. I can not even imagine now how I had squeezed a group meeting on Skype in between. But I did it and it was useful for sure.