Diamond harbour, only 40 km from Kolkata and such a difference...

So as usually it happens I have plans for my the only one day off ;)) So this time I planed to go somewhere out of the city, out of Kolkata. I found out from my Atlas of India (small book with all important destination of India with detailed maps) that there are 2 places near Kolkata, which are only 35-40 km from the city (Diamond Harbour and Churunchura). So we decided to go to Diamond Harbour, I was attracted by the name of destination. ;))) But actually it wasn't something special. We went there by the bus from the Esplanade bus station. It took us 2,5 hours to get to this village or town, don't know how to describe it better. There were a lot of people, all of them didn't speak English at all, so it was difficult to find something. First we were very confused cause only 40 km from Kolkata and such a difference... ;)) but then we was walking found some nice places like Temples and river side is really nice... And also we liked that it was very calm there in comparison to Kolkata ;))) but people....oh, they are so wild, it was difficult to stand their curiosity to us... They were always staring at us, it was not nice at all, cause they didn't smile at us or something, but were very serious and even looked angry, so it almost spoiled our trip, but this city had good people of course, who were nice to us, smiled, waved, spoke English...so it is was not so bad ;)))) We were tired after, but it worth visiting ;)))
This first that we saw when we came to this village, some doll, may be it was God...
This is market, where we bought some fruits



This Temple that we found in this village, it is really nice and peaceful place
This cow was extremely nice to us ;))))







God of Durga Pudga...

River side, river Ganga...
This the main type of transport in those village, everywhere we saw only that
This guy asked me to take a photo of him ;))) look at him, he is like model ;))) hehhe

We were very brave and decided to have a lunch in one place, it was the best choose that we could make... This photo about how dirty water was which they offered for free... Bottle with normal water was mine I placed it there in order to show the difference ;))))
This our lunch... Rice and vegetables, we also could take some fish or sea food but we deiced not to risk so much... ;)))

This woman was preparing the food ;))) she was very cute, smiled all the time and then were happy that I decided to take a photo of her ;))

This couple are very nice...it is good that they didn't shy to show their attitude to each other in public, cause a lot of couple in India, as I understood, are very shy, and it is not allowed for couples to keep each others hands... strange... but at the same time it is ok when guys hold each other and keep each others hands...hmmm, something wrong with this logic, right? So I like this photo cause I am happy to see such normal couples!!! ;)))
with ice-cream man ;)))))

this is swamp
Typical houses in this village
I like this boy ;))) so cute ;))
he was very afraid of my idea to take a photo, but then was ok ;)))

with other villagers ;))




Preparations to the biggest festival Durga Puja ;))) this will be small temples ;))
hkhkh.... you can guess what is it... it is for houses...
Fishermen...

oh, we wanted to have a river excursion by boat... but we didn't manage cause there were all the time a lot people and as usually everything was tooooo slowly...

Our way back, it is in the bus.... a lot people, hot... Trip was tiring...

and at last we were home, in Kolkata... this is field near Victoria Memorial... very beautiful sunset...

Global Village 2010

It was AIESEC dance, just small part of it ;))) soon I will upload video with all dances, it was the best part of Global Village ;))) I like AIESEC dances so much ;)))) AIESEC, thank you for it ;)))

Global Village 2010

Preparations to Global Village: Russian flag, skirts of paper and Russian traditional hats - "kokoshniki" ;)))

Brazil rocked ;))) Fabio is preparing drinks ;))) he was very popular ;)))

Our sweet pancakes - "oladiu" made by Kristina!!! ;)) with honey and jam ;)))
Our pancakes with mushrooms made by me ;))) in the middle are mushrooms ;)))
It was popular to take a photo with Russian girls ;)))
Shootings
the same with Kristina ;))) I suppose 1000 photos were made with us ;)))

Janka representing Hungary ;)))

Indian stand

Ursula representing Germany
Indian stand again
Bangoli sweets, pictures of Royal Bengali tiger ;)))

Anina representing Australia

Peter representing Taiwan ;)))
Paper dragon saying "You are in Taiwan" ;))) cool idea ;)))


Larisa and Emanuela representing Austria ;)))
Romanian stand ;)))
I and Karina (Romania)

My costume made of paper ;)))

Before country presentations, waiting for our terns
and of course AIESEC dances ;))) at last, I and Janka were so happy ;)))

Of course always there is one dance leader ;))) here was he ;)))

AIESEC Kolkata with interns ;))) hehe
AIESEC Kolkata

Strike in Kolkata

Tomorrow is gonna be strike in whole Kolkata, nobody will work... So it is also about transport - metro, buses, taxi drivers.... so all the companies and food shops, cafes will not work too... I don't know what is it?!!! I don't know will we work or not, cause hotels works all the time... I don't know what about this strike, and it is strange why that it is known beforehand and people just accept it and ready not to work... haha ;))) In Moscow it is unbelievable such situation ;))) Who lives in Moscow understand what i mean ;)) People even try to make it (their plans to strike) as much secretly as possible and anyway government finds it out and deny any strikes, take people who are going to strike to police and this like each strike ends in Moscow ;))) But please don't think that in Moscow it is like that because of communism, we don't have! ;))) We have such situation with strikes only last 3 years may be... That is why it is so strange for me to hear such news in 3-4 day before and everyone just accept it so simple. ;)))) May be people just want to have additional day off? ;))) or we will have to work after this strike on Sunday???!!! Don't know, will write about it as soon as possible... To be continue...

On Russian:
Zavtra budet den zabastovki v Kalkutte... nikto ne budet rabotat... Takzhe ne budut rabotat publichniy transport - metro, avtobusi, taksisti... Ne bydyt rabotat magazini, kafe, mnogie kompanii... Ya ne znau, chto eto, iz-za chego... Takzhe ne znau budem li mi rabotat ili net, tak kak obichno takie vewi ne vliyaut na raboty otelei, poetomu chto oteli rabotaut vsegda...Eto tak stranno, chto vse znaut napered, chto budet zabastovka i regiryut na eto tak spokoina, gotovi ne rabotat... haha ;)) V Moskve takaya situaziya prakticheski ne vozmozhna. Kto zhivet v Moskve, ponimaet, chto ya imeu v vidy. ;))) Dazhe te, kto pitaetsya stroit plani o zabastovke v Moskve ochen sekretno, terpyat ktah svoih planov... kak-to gosydarstvo yznaet o planah ludei, kto sobiraetsy bastovat i teh smelchakov srazu otvozyat v poliziu... Tak obichno zakanchivaestsya kazhdaya zabastovka, esli eto i mozhno tak nazvat ...; ))) Tolko, pozhalyista, ne delaite vivodi, chto eta takaya sityaziya v Moskve, tak kak mi vse ewe zhivem v kommunizme, net... Takaya situaziya s zabastovkami v Moskve tolko vozmozhno posledniee 3 goda... Poetomu dlya menya eto tak zabavno slishat za 3-4 dnya, chto bydet zabastovka, iz-za kotoroi vse i vse priostanovitsya, nichego ne budet rabotat... kak eto vozmozhno???!!! I ludi, i gosudarstvo prosto prinimaut ety novost i vse... Mozhet bit ludi prosto hotyat imet dopolnitelniy vihodnoi? ;))) ili posle etogo vse mi dolzhni budem rabotat v voskresenie??? Nichego poka ne znau, napishy ob etom kak tolko, tak srazy... Prodolzhenie sledyet...

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