My First Flight…………….. up up on the way ->

 

 All my friends came to escort me Raju, Vadi, Siby, Macha, Kappe, Adi, Sakku, Sunil, Pande and Not to forget KK Naga..

Many called and wished me happy journey (Tati, Pradeep(Hu), Vasu, Putti, Jeeva, Koldu, Bhatta, Nitu, Bully, Bach, Pankaj and many more…).  I was very thrilled for this moment.

When i entered in to checkin counter my heart was literally crying but was totallly happy also. I didnt had my dinner but i was not hungry. Siby came along with me in to checkin and guided me what to do. At that time i realised the importance of a friend. I wanted to see all my friends again one more time i captured all their faces in my mind and went in.

In checkin they asked my invite letter company id, thanks to M Ravikumar (my big boss) & Naga that i kept these things with me. Checkin was very cool.

When i went for imigration, there  the guy tensed me a lot (asking all my details). But i stood calmly, then one more person came and helped me in getting imigration quickly.

Then my hand luaggage was checked, i went in to waiting hall. There i saw WI v/s SA match.. Lara & Sarwan were playing good but Lara got bowled out to Kallis then i stopped watching it. There were two gentlman sitting infront of me, both were very experienced in flying it seems. I was bit nervous looking at them. Probably i was the only nerveous person in that hall.

Then my turn came for boarding at 1:25am and i went confidently inside. there were many magazines, i was confused to choose one so i took “The Hindu” newspaper. After 30 mins the flight started my seat no was 40B (next to window seat). So i was able to see the whole view during the take off. It was amazing, there was something strange happening in my stomach. I saw whole Bangalore during take off. It was unexplainable experience. After some time i drank some water and slept.

When i woke up it was around 7:00AM IST and a movie was playing in the flight. Thank god it was a hindi movie (Jaaneman), i watched the whole movie and had my break fast. And took a break and wrote all these things in my dairy.

After some time we reached Frankfurt airport (called as Franport). There the actual drama happened.

I got down from the flight and when in search of my terminal for transit… I was standing infront of Display board to check my flight time and terminal.

A cop came and asked my passport. I showed him, he said come with we need to do some enquiry…

I didnt had any other choice i wentwith him.. He took me out of that terminal, a police van was standing and there were two more cops sitting inside. They enquired me atleast for 30 mins… They asked me about my work profile, place of stay in Sofia, my company, duration of  stay everything… I had all proper documents so i showed them everything..

They frequently asked me how much money i am carrying, i replied i am not carrying much, money wil be transfered to my account after me reaching ther. Then they asked why i m not carrying a laptop being a system admin. Then some i was able to convience them that i m going for a business visit, everything will be provided by my client.

Then finally they left me without doing anything. Then i realised that they did it bcos of my first visit to Europe.

In Frankfurt i got a Banglorean company who was also coming to Sofia. Then i started feeling compartable.

This time i got a window seat so i saw view outside completely, i missed my lunch bcos my sleep. While landing it was really awesome experience. We came out of airport after all checks and i got a very good taxi driver he helped me to get my currency exchanged and spoke very pleasently to me..

He asked me some questions which were new to me, like ” here girls very beautiful do you want anybody for company?” i said ”sorry i m commited”, he asked “what do you mean by commited, are you married? or you have a girl friend?”.. Then i replied “I M IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE”, he understood i mean.

He dropped me in front of my hotel, I took some rest then my project manager “Manoharan” came and took me to McDonalds where i had my lunch @ 4:30pm. Later he took me to my office which 10 mins walk from my hotel.

In the middle all historical and cultual monuments were located.. I reached office and met my client IT manger & new team mates (Aravind, Albena, Subbu, Vivek, Rajesh & Satish). All are from TN (except Albena-Bulgarian) , so the common language used in office is tamil. Luckily i can understand tamil because of my stupid collegue Yegappan… All my new collegues are very cool and helping.

I started my work on the first day itself, started gathering info abt the action i have to perform, then we had a dinner in  McDonalds (now my favourite place). I came back to my room , took some break and slept..

The only thng i realised after reaching Sofia is ”the biggest asset that i have gained in my life is my friends, they are priceless and i m incomplete without them”…

The first thing i want to do after coming back is to thank all my friends, but the first rule of friendship says “no sorry no thank you”… 

So what else can i do… How about a treat???????????????

Guys u deserve it. Dont leave me to give any excuses. Plan it accordingly so that no one will miss it out… And this time i will sponser the boose also…..

New Beginning.

Here after. 

I will be start up loading my photos in picasa

& sharing my experience of sofia in this blog.

My picasa album : http://picasaweb.google.com/ghouse.hsd