The 3rd weekend was a very long weekend for us. Thank God, our customer does not work on holidays. We had an off on Good Friday and Easter Monday giving us 4 full days to enjoy. But our varuna deva was chilling at his place I think because of which we had a snowfall.
I woke up on Friday to see a pure white carpet laid on the roads, cars and trees. We had a snowfall. Owing to the weather, we could not step out of the house. If it is a holiday for companies, it will be an off for even shops here. Every small shop was closed on Friday making it a very boring day for us. Kusum was a bit relaxed on Friday and said that she would take us out for lunch. Believe me, even the restaurants are closed on holidays here. The Buxtehude city looked as if somebody had ordered a curfew! Only a handful of people were found on the road, all the shops were closed, the traffic signals were switched off as there was no traffic. What a sight that was!
A small restaurant where you can take parcels also if needed is called an imbiss. A normal 'hotel' as we call in Bangalore is called restaurant here. A hotel in Germany is a 'lodge' in Bangalore. I found it very confusing. In the main city area, there is an imbiss run by Turkish people which was open on Good Friday. Even though the roads were fully empty, Pali did not park his car on the road. Instead drove across the road and parked in a parking lot. Yappa, teera atee aaitu idu
We went inside Sultan Imbiss and Pali ordered a vegetarian dish for me. I don't know what my dish was called, but it was very tasty and it had lots and lots of oil in it. At the end of my meal, I felt like puking because of the amount of oil used. It had steamed rice, a wide variety of vegetables literally soaked in oil and some yog hurt sauce on it. After our lunch, we walked down to St. Petri's church.
As soon as I entered the church, I heard prayers being sung by people. These prayers sounded like an Opera singer singing some tragic song, no offense meant. The church is very very huge and it is said to have been built in 1196 AD. The list of Pastor's of the church was put up which seemed like a never ending list to me. I then lit a candle inside the church for the first time in my life. There was a tray filled with sand where we could fix our candles. I shot a few photos of the church and then all of us went back home. I watched a couple of movies that I had downloaded and ended the first day of my weekend.
Pali had told us that he would take us to Bremen if the weather would be good. But our varun was not in a mood to let us go. The snowfall was much more than the previous day. All day long, me and my colleague watched 3 movies.
Sunday was Easter (Oster in German). Nothing special for me or the Perera's. I lazily got up at 11 AM and had my breakfast. Pali said we could go out for a walk in the woods near his place and that excited me. Immediately I picked up my camera and 3 of us were off. Just opposite to Pali's place is a stud farm that has around 60 horses. We could not get to see the horses as the weather was suitable for them to come out. After this farm, is a forest like area that has only huge trees everywhere. We roamed around in the supposed-to-be forest for about an hour. We met a few German families that had come there to celebrate Oster. We could not tolerate the cold breeze any more and we walked back to home quickly.
The rest of the day and Monday very boring as usual. Everything was closed and varuna wanted us to take some more rest. I was just waiting for the weekend to get over. At last, the weekend indeed got over and I started work in full swing at the office.
A boring weekend and a boring post! I'll try to write something interesting in the next post.
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