Monday, February 9, 2009

two strangers...

As decided I went to meet my junior college friend in Mysore. All alone(so excited!) After reaching there We saw the royal Mysore palace and in the evening Vrindavan garden. Its was so beautiful in the evening!
The next day we visited Chamundi hills where there is a temple of chamundidevi. After coming back to main city bus stand we went to one of the restaurant(considering our less budget that was less costlier than the Gufa or Jungle). So we gave our order as some normal north Indian sabji and roti and waited for it to come. As this is hotel is near the Palace it was heavily crowded! Even we waited 10 min to get a table.
So many foreigners were there in that restaurant also. And I was observing two of the ladies who were waiting to get a place. The manager of that restaurant was so kind to them that he told two of us(me and my friend) to give them a place on our table(since all tables were for four chairs and only two of us were sitting). First I was like "what?? why is this manager saying like that?"
But by that time two of those ladies sat beside both of us. I told my friend will start to talk to them but will we understand their language I mean accent? After 2-3 minutes we only started discussion...
Those had come from Canada and one of them was teacher that to of fashion and other was her daughter(daughter's name was Luicy and I forgot the name of that lady). we asked "aren't you afraid of roaming here without any guide?" so she answered confidently "No! I am coming to India for fifth time!". Yes! we were able to understand what they were saying to us and their accent was no good not like Hollywood movie stars! Thank god! After that we asked many questions and discussion continued. That lady had visited many places like Rajasthan, Delhi, In Maharashtra places like Pune and Mumbai,in Uttar Pradesh Varanasi(which she liked most and was having some attachment to that place) and many other! And I was like "You have visited many places than us in India!"
I was wearing a Tee-shirt which had names of Indian ladies like Mother Teresa, Kiran Bedi, Sunita Williams etc. That lady was so impressed by that and she told us that she knows about Kiran Bedi and her work. My friend suggested her the autobiography of her and she repeated the name of book which my friend told and said she will definitely read it!
Then she asked about now a days award grabbing movie "slum-dog millionaire" and also the currently happened "Manglore incident" and didn't forget to ask our opinions about it. We asked them many other things like "Have you seen any dance style of India?" then "Any Indian marriage ceremony?" etc etc.... And both of them were so excited about every cultural thing we have! they were wearing malas of flowers into their neck :)
We finished our lunch and got a bill as 180 for me and my friend and we said to each other "what did we eat for so much of bill?". I don't know about their bill but they had ordered one north Indian and one South Indian meal(asking for less spicy). And after paying bill "This is very cheap restaurant!" was their remark! :)
After that we said "good bye" to each other and left the place. And even after that thoughts going through our minds didn't stop. We had a nice lunch with two strangers.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

i agree ya...foreigners have seen many more places in India, than we have...