Diary report of being in India, october 21th

Day 11, Monday, october 21th, Constanze 
In the night from sunday to monday we had our bustrip to Jaipur. At 8.15am we arrived our hotel. Then we were divided into groups of three people and checked into our room. We had to sleep with three people in a double bed, but that was okay. The hygiene was good, too. At 9am we had breakfast. You could choose between toast with marmalade, rice with sauce and curd. At 9.30 am we went to our rooms and had time up to 1pm. Because it was not so easy to sleep at the bustrip everyone slept during this time. At lunch we had rice with peas and a cheese sauce and another sauce. To this we had indian bread, curd and a salat with cucumber, tomatoes and onions. After having lunch we started a sightseeing trip at 2pm. What we first noticed was that scooterist wear helmets. Then we saw the yellow city which is a big market for shopping. Then we went to a place with many sundials. We saw the biggest sundial of the world and took pictures. And we saw a building which describes the longitude and the latitude with the aid of the sun. After that we visited the Hawamahal, a palace of wind. We went to the top of this building and had a beautiful view. At 17pm we were back in the bus and drove to another palace, the palace of water. It was a palace which was built in the middle of a lake. On our way to see the second palace we saw a children which performed magic. After that we went to a scarf shop. At 6 pm we drove to a market and had time to go shopping for two hours. Luckily we visited the market with indian students, because they have a good knowledge about the prices. Everything was cheaper than in Germany and many students bought jewellery or scarfs. For our dinner we went to McDonald what every german student made very happy.

Diary Entry, 21st of October, Christopher

We had a long night journey to Jaipur. Many pupils slept on the floor in the bus. After we arrived at our hotel Jaisingh Palace we brought our baggage to our rooms. I was in a room with Ruven, Jari, Falk, Aman and Beenu. We had a delicious breakfast in cafeteria of the hotel and afterwards time to rest. The Germans and the Indians played card in the garden and talked a lot. Some also slept after the hard journey. Before starting our sight seeing tour through Jaipur, we had lunch. With the bus we drove to see the biggest sun dial on the world. It was very, very hot there and everyone was happy about a place in the shadow. Passing the shops of Jaipur, we walked to the palace of air. At the top of the palace one could have a look over the whole city. We left with the bus again and drove to another palace which is placed in the water. One had a great view on the hills there. We watched a little girl with green eyes performing magic tricks. Everyone was very impressed and the most German students gave her some rupies. The next station was a small shopping mall where we stopped for 45 minutes to have a look inside. One got the chance to buy saris, scarves, jewellery and other souvenirs. We got another chance for shopping one hour later on a real Indian market. It was full of people and you could buy almost everything you want. The Indian merchants often try to make us Germans buy their stuff. After a while it was really annoying to say “no thanks”. Another experience that was not so nice were the little children begging for food and money. It was not so easy to deal with that because one is not sure about giving them something or not. In the evening the Indian guys made us very happy. For dinner we went to McDonalds so that we could have had some French fries and also some chicken. To come there we had just a two minutes walk from our hotel. On the streets were many cars and many dogs. One had to keep always attention. At the end of the day all the pupils sat together, playing cards, talking about their experience and some also started missing home.