Homestay at Poli's

Might be strange to hear this from me, but one of the thins I said was "It's good to be back". This was the coldest winter in the last 10 years. 8 degrees celsius at night :). A different chemisphere, a different reality.

I never imagined how good an AIESEC homestay can be for a trainee. Poli's family is realy lively and hospitable, we found lots of things to talk about. The world is growing small these days: there is a mixture of all religions all over the world, people watch the same movies (with some exceptions), wear the same clothes, watch similar sports. Funny. We all do use the same facebook :).

There are small differences though. I really liked the way that mr. Kapuscinski described Herodoth's enquires to the matter of different peoples' customs. It was something similar to this: "Egyptians would find defecating as a humiliating act and therefore keep it at home, where all europeans would keep it outside their households"

Now here, you can find different variations of this thing. In some places, people sit on chairs. In others, on the floor. In others, on the bed. Here, a bed can be as much of a meeting place as any place else. And this is not just one observation: it was briliant to see it for the third time since arriving!

The good thing is that buildings have terraces. And people go there a lot (such terraces in my country are usually dirty and unattended). Smoking a hookah, looking at planes taking off and landing in the domestic airport, seeing bombay life at night... that's it.

First day at work (friday,  7th feb).
Could I really be so lucky? I will not say anything by the time it settles.

The best thing was still the name of the position. Strategy support executive. The second question anybody would ask, after enqiring about what my position was, would always be "But what are you actually doing there?".