Around the World

Ok…so let me explain all that i remember
On Friday we were at office. Suddenly we decided that we will go to Heidelberg in the evening with anu, moi, vatsa and nitesh. But it so happened that it got late at office for moi. So we told them that we badly needd to buy a calling card and hence we would go to walldorf and they could carry on.
We walked to the rot station thru the jungle.it was time for the train.we ran to get tickets from the automatic machine. Vatsa used that machine so fast that I could hardly understand what he did. But there was no time to ask him. We had to go to the other platform. We ran. Finally got into the train. Vatsa explained how to get the ticket. But it make too much sense. We had to get down in the next station itself.
Got down. That’s when daddy called on mobile. I was so happy that I forgot that I was going to buy the calling card. So I said that I will go to the hotel and give a missed call and that daddy should call to landline.
After talking we decided to walk to hotel. When we turned and looked we dint know which way to go. So we thought we will take a taxi(we had asked in the hotel before abt it and had found out that it was better to do so).when we reached the hotel we realized this guy does not know English. We somehow understood and paid him and got off.
By this time I had realized that I had to go out and so could not talk to daddy from room. So I kept giving missed calls so that they would call back and I could talk to them. Finally when they called I was so busy with the taxi driver that I told them to call back after 2 mins.
We waited to cross the road and the signal never turned green. Then a lady came by, changed the signal herself and walked across…what fools we were…waiting there for so long.
Then again daddy called. i told them that I will call the next day(felt extremely guilty later for being so rude) because it was getting late and the shop where we would get the calling card would close.
We then started walking to the shop. It was supposed to be an Indian restaurant near SAP building. We dint know how to walk to SAP. We started off. There were hardly few people on the streets. We managed to ask some people half in German and half English and somehow reached SAP. Then we realised, walldorf is full of SAP. We dint know where the shop was. We found one person her and there from SAP going home. We asked one guy. He took us thru the parking lot to the other side of the road and showed us how to go. Again we had a signal. But this time we knew we had to change it ourselves..we walked…and walked and walked…nothing on streets.no one and no shop too. Then we found a group of guys. We asked them. They said it was in the next road and not this one(we vowed never to talk to group of guys after that)…we walked…or almost ran to the next road. We still dint find it. It was pitch dark by now with no one on streets. But thank god we found one soul in front of one of the SAP offices. He told us that we were on the right road and that we just needed to go further down. We went. And there it was….by god’s grace it was open. Went in. got the card. 2 of them each. He had many cards and we chose the one that suited us. We were so scared and tensed that we dint even think of eating anything. Just took it and started walking back. We reached the SAP office. But now we were in a fix. While coming that guy got us thru the parking lot. Now we dint know how to get back onto that particular road. We again found 2 women at SAP office. And one of them actually walked with us to show us how to get to the road that was familiar to us. God bless her soul. We were half relieved. We walked back to hotel. Once we reached we were so …I donno wat..indescribable…we just crashed In bed(after calling up home tho).

On Saturday morning got up and got ready. Left to bad schornborn to meet moitreyee and then took the train from there to Heidelberg.(took a long time with another lady to figure out how to take the weekend pass that was valid for 5 people for the whole weekend).the weekend pass was valid in all trains that we planned to take and in buses and trams.
We reached Heidelberg. Deepthi wanted to buy a camera and for that we had to go to media markt. Vatsa told us to take tram 41. we took it. Were busy clicking pictures.
The trams and trains …and I guess the uses also have an announcement system that keeps telling which the next stop is. And also the same is displayed. So it is not at all a problem.
After clicking all snaps we realiyed the bus was coming back to where we got in from. So that was the wrong tram…fine. We got down. Asked many people where we could find the media markt. Finally someone told us. It was far away. Do we decided to finish the shopping where we were and then move on to media markt.
We went to many shops. All costly. But did a lot of window shopping. we went to kaufhof. Then to a cheaper shop shown by one girl called DM. there moi and deepthi got some stuff. Me dint. Then we went to wool worth. A huge shop. Me found lots of stuff there and got all that I wanted there.
Then we moved on to media markt. Got into tram 4.but we had to get the same tram that was going the other directon. So got down in the next stop. Took the same tram on the other side. Reahced there being helped by an old lady. Went to media markt. Deepthi got her camera. Me got something for my hubby. Then we went around that huge shopping mall for the rest of the day till 8. Ate the bread that I had taken. The other girls got themselves some non veg stuff there. We had one ice cream also.
Returned home. Again dead tired. Freezing cold it was at night.

Sunday moring left a little late. Went to bad schornborn. Now deepthi had a camera so clicked so many photos.took a train to karlsruhe.went to service point there. Took 1.5 hours discussing with the person in the station abt various possibilities of booking tickets for the rest of our weekends at cheap rates. Got a lot of print outs.
Sat in train from karlsruhe to offenburg and analyzed the prints and decided that we will do the bookings for all the weekends as soon as we reach Freiberg.
From offenburrg we got another train to lahr. From lahr we followed one guy who took us to the bus. The bus took us to emindingen. It was a one hour journey and we had our lunch that we had bought at karlsruhe station in the bus. I had some juice and bread. then we took the next train to Freiberg.
We did our ticket bookings here. It took so long. We hardly had any time there.Freiberg is black forest. It is in the border of swiss. So it is very beautiful. We took a map from the station. Took some snaps. Took tram number 1 that goes to littenwelle. Got down at romerhauf…that’s what it was I guess. then started walking. Saw lots of scenery. But time was not enough. Had to come back. Ate almost all the mixture.
Took the tram 1 back to station. Ate some blakforest cake at the station. Went to the restroom payin 80 cents.Took train to offenburg. The train was delayed by almost 10 mins. So as soon as we reached the station people ran like running race to the other platform for the next train. We just followed the crowd. It was a mad rush. We anyway made it to the next train. it was so cold that we were shivering. Cold not sleep as we would miss the station. Somehow then got down at walldorf at 10 and took a taxi back to hotel. Called home and went flat on bed.

Today was in office. Went to walldorf office walking in the morning. Then took the SAP shuttle to rot. In the afternoon we had meetings at walldorf. Some nice discussions abt some nice stuff coming up. Then we were back home dropped by Christian. He took us to Indian garden(which we showed him the way). Got one new calling card. After that we were back at hotel. we walked to aldi. Got some stuff. Did some magi and coffe cooking. Had it. Now its very late. Time to go to bed.