Swiss land - the land with largest finance centers, the land where every single person carries the latest iphone 4, the land of beauty, the land I knew before just for the swiss bank, swiss watches and our favourite shahrukh and kajol, became a reality for me.
I was all excited about my first onsite, my first day at the client location and of course my new attires, business suits, skirts and the formal dresses. I am just in love with them now. :P :P
Ghshdfs, gitse, g…. whats that that every person greets me with when they cross by? Well it was tough to make out. Replied back with a “hi” assuming it definitely must be their way of greeting. Finally Alex and Philip helped us understand what it was: Grüße. So here started my learning of German. And it was real fun. All the more because I decided to teach the firangs hindi and I taught them all stupid words, which which sounded funny. So everytime some1 sneezed Alex and Philip had to say “bhagwan bhala kare” which sounded like "bagaaawaaan bala kari". :)
It’s a different culture all together. Office is quiet (though me n Jo changed the environment of our room altogether :P), there is nothing like a cafeteria and recreation room, people don’t take coffee breaks, tea breaks, snack break, break for nsp, breaks for a stroll and … In short people actually WORK here… J
It was also time for me to come out of my parantha zone and try different cuisines. Well I had no option but try because very few options for Indian food were available. I started off with a Spanish restaurant. Took the menu and tried to read !@##$#%FRGE%$%#$%#T#%$$#^T%$.... Phew it was all in German. Finally I ordered a “Tortila” which was supposed to be a omelet with potatoes. So this was essentially the first time I had omelet. But almost 3\4th of the dish was wasted. Not bad nammo!!! I ordered something other than “Vegetarian “ food for the first time in life. J
Gates and Us
The gates at office are some strange monkey cages and had been a real source of entertainment for me and Jo all the time. For the first three days I did not have a permanent id while Jo had for heself. I used to get a temporary pass everyday which did not work after 6. So if you need to exit, you need to be thin enough to adjust with the other person in the monkey cage.
Thurday, I got my permanant card and we both left at from office. But we were still of the notion that we have 1 card and we need to be smart and quick enough to exit together. But how could we play that safe. Shit!!! Jyoti screamed. Her shoes got stuck in the gate. Good lord and we could hear a beautiful song from the door. Gawdd We went crazy and couldn’t control laughing at the situation and the consequences…Would there be a police?? Or a emergency troop to rescue us or we would stand all night dancing at the lovely tunes of the door. And there the door hit us hard and snapped us out .Luckily there were not many people outside to make fun of us.
