Sunday, April 30, 2017

Long weekend

Till yesterday I wasn't sure what will I do during that 5 days off. I didn't want to spend time at home My boyfriend went to New Zealand and I was a bit sad that I can not go with him. I decided to take the decision spontanouously and I went 11 hours to Bonn to visit my sister. That was a great deal because I didn't see her for long and the weather over here is much better than in Poland.
Today we will make barbecuse and eat german 'wurst'. I am really excited and I wish you all a great holidays.

Thursday, April 20, 2017

India

If it comes about India I had big expertations. I expected that I will feel like in Thailand or Malaysia but when I arrived to Mumbai an odd smell, dust and noise of the horn welcomed me. It was a night, I took a tuk tuk to hotel and with a jet lag I tried to fall asleep. Next day was very nervous because I didn't have Indian currency and the crisis in India caused limits in withrowing money from cash machines. At the end, I solved the problem and went sightseeing. The city was a big mess but I kind of liked the atmosphere over there. What hit me the most was the poor people and homeless animals. Children without shoes, pants and even without lingerie walking on the street. I defenitely wasn't prepared for that view. The worst thing was that I couldn't help them all. The incident that will always stay in my mind is from the main street in Mumbai. While I was walking, a little dirty boy started to hang on my leg and he didn't want to set me free. He didn't beg for food or money he just wanted attencion. The boy is used to be raised on the street he doesn't know better life. But when I was there I thought ''what a shitty life he has, if God exists he isn't fair'' I was coming to my hotel where I had warm water, full fridge and clean clothes and I felt sad and lucky. The trip was a great lesson of humbleness, value of life and humility  

Sunday, April 2, 2017

Issues of India



Before I will write here more details from my trip I would like to share mmy thoughts about issues of India.

Travelling to India is a really intense experience. The cultural mix and gap from the west is overwhelming. You are forced to see the inequalities of the world and among indian society.
From all the issues that India faces, 2 seem the most urgent: poverty and pollution.
About the last one it's easy to get, there are little hygiene habits, gargabe is thrown on the street, corners or sources of water. The dirtyness its in a big scale in the bigger cities. No organization can take care of this issue because the problem seems to start on everyone's education.

Then poverty, being the worst case in Mumbai. Hundreds of homeless and many orphans accumulate next to busy roads. What kind of life is that? What to do with that? Huge scale family planning, feeding or adoption programs? In India you see a lot of things yet to be done and you have to question yourself if you could be useful as an individual. You have to realize that the world is not just the warm corner you live in, and maybe there are more important things than the stuff you aim to buy one day.