After the image gallery from my trip to Khandala has been online for quite a while now, I decided to promote that a bit by picking three images and commenting on them.
I was sent to a newbie training in the mountains outside of Mumbai. The monsoon was still on but instead of the dirty and acid rain that is eating away the plaster of the buildings and giving them a nice “antique” look our faces were bathed in a light drizzle. Oh, and there were games. As part of a team building exercise they blindfolded us, made us touch one another, jump over mines, walk in the dark and turned us into construction workers. Not all of those activities are that well documented. Especially the pictures of the night trip came out a little shady {hehehe}. While being on a treasure hunt we had an out-of-nowhere encounter with a green baby viper. Fortunately, one of our outdoor guides was a snake nut who eventually become immune to certain types of venom after almost being bitten to death. He made friends with the little fellow.
This activity pushed most of the attendees to their limits. We had to rope down a bridge, catch a tiny latter while swaying in the rain and them climb back up. That guy had his pants full. But for our Indian nerd the whole adventure was dreadful. He was shrieking and shivering.
This is NOT the winner team. They were way to laid-back and lacking the right leadership. Needless to say that I was the leader of the winning team! The group was split into four teams which were all blindfolded except for their leader. Two teams had to erect one tent, meaning two tents were recklessly thrown into the crowd causing them to swarm and fighting over the single pieces, tearing them apart and making it impossible to track which pole belongs to which tent. Two team leads screaming, shouting and not communicating to their staff (plus, Indian names are very hard to remember). What a chaos!
In Germany, birthdays are an occasion and lame excuse for your friends to get wasted. In India, your friends take the opportunity to debase and humiliate you. They use cake to do that.
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