work...
Up early , and let the waiting begin...But today it was a bit extra because we used three houers on oure way "home"!
But today we finally recieved the lacking eye-bolts that have been on it`s way for a week now...
So I desided to do as I alwayes do when I work with something that should have been finished long ago...
I put in a litle extra, and five this afternoon, I could stand up on my feet again after welding the last part of this flexible PVC concreet framework-madrass.
This morning I also got to visit a hardware marked in town.
We needed some eyelets, and brasses and some more tools.
Never in my life have I seen so many different things stuffed into small "shops", in a secret world right next to the streets...
I could probably walked arround there the whole day, without seeing everything...
And I would have got lost pretty fast too!
The strange thing about looking into this world, is that you find absolutly Everything there...
All the stuff I know from back home, but also a lot of stuff I`ve hardly seen before.
So how all this finds it`s way to the shadows at this enormous labyrinth of a hidden market, is more than I can understand...
Totally unreal...
This small visits into the real Kolkata is just Amasing!
I woun`t even suggest that I start to understand this city. I just start to understand that this city is one of a cind on this planet!
If I only could have spoke Bengalish, ore at least understood it,. It would have been so much easyer to moove arround.
But I also see conflict`s, and understand more how the workers think and relate to their bosses.
I probably loosed my driver today, because the new manager at the facktory is too hard on him.
Sad, because Rana is such a happy nice young man.
Driving like a crazy, and I alwayes feel safe with him.
He came and said goodbye to me, because even if his English is poore, we manage to understand eachother.
He has told me a lot about things here, and alwayes been helpfull.
I will miss him, and I told him his my friend before he dissapeard today.
30 years, married and have a three year old daughter. He showed me a photo, and was very proud. Lovely litle girl, who reminds me of my own litle girls...(my ex was Asian too)
So, tomorrow it`s relaxing, and on monday we will fill this test madrass with concreet and see that everythng is okay!
Comments (36)
Do you both live and work in Kolkota?
I was looking at a map of the surrounding cities (?), such as Raipur, Chandannanga, Kulgachia, Falta, Gaighata, and Magra Hat, and wondered if you had been to any of those places and if so, what were they like?
My sympathies about your friend! I hope he will be okay, and I will say a prayer for him.
David. Bath Spa/U.K.
Where are/were you from originally?
If you do make a visit there please let me know
what it was like? Thank you.
A pleasant evening to you.
David, Bath Spa./U.K.
I`ve been here for over three weeks now, and my only worry is that I have to leave all too soon....
Wish I could stay here several years, just to learn this crazy city for real...
I went outside a while ago, and heard musick. I went after the sound, and found a bar/resturant not far from my hotel.
Have no idèa what went on in there, but it sure was amasing just to be there for a while...
Some girls were singing lokal music, while a band was playing.
Not sure what this was about, but maybe they were hoockers, because all the men were sending moneyes, as they kept singing one at a time... And there was a lot of flirting and writing on napkins...
Maybe I`m wrong in my observationes, but it was nice to spend time looking at life, as it is here, a Saturday evening....
Wish I was a better writer, as some of the female bloggers are...
But I`m me, and this is my life right now!
I write in the moment, and that`s why some of my blogs might seam crazy....
Love and peace to all!
Back home I have a empty house...
Great seeing you again!
Looks like you have allready seen more in the last two days
then the past weeks all toghether
I think it will take a lifetime to understand that country
but it sure is amazing.
I like to read your stories from there.
Enjoy your time and stay safe
The sad thing is that I miss someone... It would have been so great to shere this with a friend ore something...
Thank`s!
But who knows what this wonderland has in store for this alien?
You can always send a ticket,
I will share, as many of us I think
But I`m not afraid, because I`m imortal, watching myself from cyberspace...
Alien, that`s me!
but....... watching yourself from cyberspace
you must have noticed youre not alone then
there's many others up there with you
Speak out, my friends... I`m wery much a loner...
Thank`s scruffie!
Feel welcome, because you are!!!
thats why it's such a great place to be
look around, its not paranoya,its like the garden of Eden
But the apple might taste delichious!
as counts for everything in life we face
But all is about how we handle things?
Life is Hush sometimes...
But now I`m among friends...
sometimes we need to pass the snake
before we get to the friend
that might be hush
but worthed
I love my country, somwhere deep in my heart...
And in Norway are not as many people as in India either I guess.
Home is where the heart is, cliche but true
And it doesn't matter where you are
its whom your with that matters
At least its a good thing you feel kinda like home
where you are now.
And if you have to be alone,
it's always nice you like to be with yourself
I had some Indian food today... Still numb in my mouth, but I liked it anyway....
Yeah, the spice is really someting, but I think it helps my stummage too...!
Goodnight, World!
See you all tomorrow!
Goodmorning, World... I`m back again!