The blue sky

I got a mail in my mailbox one fine day saying that I need to attend a workshop wherein they give tips to get integrated into the German culture without any problems. I thought to myself "another fun filled day" at work. I was very sceptical to go to the workshop because I had heard not very good things about it from one of my colleagues. She was amongst Indians at the workshop who were speaking their own mother-tongue and who had brought kids and wives to the seminar and a mini-India was formed there which left her a little alone. When I reached there,  I was relieved to find only 3 other Indians other than me. It was a mixed group and there were Serbians, Chinese, American, Russian, Mexican also. And the best part was that the trainer was Indian. She had a strange British accent though she was settled in Germany for 25 years now. But she was damn good.  She knew her subject well and had a great control on the group. We got a great information on Germany a...

The title literally means little sunshine. You will realise why this post has this title when I give you a little background. It is close to a month that I have come to Germany on an assignment and it feels as if I am here since ages. Strange is the human mind! When I was in Bangalore, I wanted to come to Germany so that we could all be together as a family and now that I am here, I often think of my house, my neighbours, the talks that we friends had about our growing babies etc. Here the life is very different. One has to do almost everything by his/her own and there is very less dependency on people. I often miss the bright and shining sun here and also the personal warmth of my friends and family here, but then one can’t be happy at all times, isn’t it? So now comes the story what caused this sunshine!! My friend narrated a very heart warming incident to me and I thought of putting it across. He works in my office and he has to travel by bus to office everyday and the bus...