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From Mumbai 2 Berlin

I am back! Out of the heat, out of the noise, strange smells and crowded streets of Mumbai and back into the chilling German automn in Berlin where the air is clean, the cars don't honk and streetlife makes me wonder whether there's a curfew. I am telling you: Berlin is totally underpopulated! Also noone looks at me: I walk down the streets - like a ghost - invisible and unperceived. I was looking for more privacy but THIS is weird! Couldn't some Indians come over here and stare at me, please? I need more attention!

At least I got a lot of attention from my family, my friends and my girlfriend from the very moment on that I arrived here on last Friday morning. It's the first time that I am alone right now and that is why it took me so long until - now - I finally write to my blog again. Back to my beloved ones from Berlin: I was wondering how it would be to see them again after such a long time and you know what? It was as if I had last seen them only a few days ago. I directly felt close and connected again. Being on the streets and watching other people reminds me that I still haven't 'arrived' completely but friends and family they are the same everywhere. It's not the place I am at home at but the people - my family, my friends, my girlfriend.

In Mumbai 'Sagar City' was my home. I really felt at home there. What made 'Sagar City' so valuable and unique for me were the people who I shared my time with there. And even though trainees kept on coming and going there was always a core of people who were like a family for me. Now - if I came back in one year - it wouldn't be the same anymore, my Sagar City family would be gone but on the other hand it would still be there somewhere else and that is: all around the world! Even better, ain't it?

And India? Will I come back? Yes, for sure. There are still places I want to see, so many people I want to meet again and things I need to show to my family that I really have to. Ok, honestly: for a tourist India is probably the most stressful country in the world with all the bargaining, wrong promises and cheating. These are things are so extreme that they can really spoil the fun and that's also why many foreigners leave India disgusted and Indians are disappointed and feel misunderstood. But these are only superficial things. I think it needs some time to overcome these first impressions and then only one can spot the real richness of India: the peacableness, the hospitality, the imperturbability, the sociability - things that are missing where I come from. I hope that I can keep these virtues in myself to some extent and import them here in Germany. As to when I come back: let yourself surprise!

Before posting some pictures now I'd like to thank all of my friends and colleagues in Mumbai for the great time I had there. I thank YOU all! I will not forget and you are always welcome to be my guests here in Berlin.

My (almost last) flatmates.

Some of my "housemates" from 603 and 1504!

And even more!

My gym mates! Who's gonna kill me now?!

And my great colleagues! I will miss chatting and joking with you.

More pictures will follow soon...

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This is Jitka - one of my coolest flatmates during my time in India. She just left my India unforeseen and for futile reasons. She was still to stay for more than 4 months but she got bullied out of the country. This is to let all of you know how disgusted and disappointed my flatmates, co-trainees and me are of what happened.

But let me slow down a little and tell you about today's events. Jitka is an AIESEC intern like I am and she arrived here in Mumbai almost two months ago. Today she called me to tell me that she would leave Mumbai tonight going back home to her home country - the Czech Republic - tonight. How could she decide such a thing so suddenly? Well, the company she was working for accused her for illicitly having accessed confidential business data in the companies network. All she did was searching the network for data she needed for her work but someone who checked the network connections interpreted it as spying. So she got fired immediately and her boss told her that she would be sued and expelled from the country. The only existing proof is a screenshot of her connection to another computer in the network.

What could one do in such a situation? What could one expect? Object and file a lawsuit and - if winnig it - continuing working in such an environment? Could she expect a compensation? No, not as intern. Without money in a foreign country and the only thing awaiting you a possible lawsuit and maybe even the police interrogating you? All she could get is a proof of innocence, no money, probably not even an excuse, just trouble. So she decided to take the next flight back home and leave the country. And that is how she got bullied out.

I am speechless about such kind of arbitrariness and its effect. It's a shame for the company she worked for as an intern and it is a shame that such a thing can happen!

Me and all my friends here are all convinced that she is innocent. But someone else was convinced that she was a hacker. Why? Well, she once created an Excel sheet with some nice formulas and people from then on thought she would be a computer genius! I can tell you after having configured her laptop at home that she is neither a computer genius and nor could she ever write a virus or access a secured network (sorry Jitka for saying this). So we are all wondering why all this happened. Paranoia? A pretext to fire her? Probably we will never find out but now we all feel unsafe and exposed to such kind of arbitrariness.

This is a lesson to all foreign interns here in Mumbai we are not her safe, we can be fired at will and without hope for recompensation! I am really very sorry to say so because I hope it would not be true but unfortunately it is! Let's all hope that things do not happen to us seeking.

Bye, Jitka!