Not everything is as it appears

One might thing with one glance you can see everything. But most of the time you can get perceived by a first impression - in the negative and in the positive sense. Excited what I will tell now? Well, but first some other things.

The first night:
Are you fond of fairy tales or at least know them? I felt reminded of one the first night. Since I sleep in a hostel, I was sharing my room with five other people the first time. (Note: latest on Wednesday I will share the room with other AIESEC interns). By earsdropping I found out that they are from another student organization. They actually have kind of a leadership seminar here in the hostel. But they were out the whole day and night.
So they arrived somewhere in the middle of the night and woke me up. Then a drunk girl asked me: "Who is sleeping in my bed?" (Here is the reference to the fairy tale.) Well me half asleep said: "me and that this is in fact my bed! So she asked: "Well then we share the bed." Me half asleep: "Ähm, no - ask the receptionist for another bed!"
The left pretty early in the morning then for a field trip for some days.

Going over the bridge:
Since I didn't know when the guy from the reception team would pick me up and I became kind of bored, I left the hostel around 11 am to go out and see more of the city.
So I went down the hill this time in the direction of the river. I found a lot of things. A market was on the way. They sell really erverything there!!!!!! Fruits, nuts, fish, meat ... and toilet bowls as well. I wonder if they grow them as well :-D! Actually I think it is really neat to buy really everything on a market. I'm pretty sure I will go there one day and buy some things - maybe not a toilet bowl though.

I also discovered a DM. It is the same concept as in Hungary, you get everything you get in Germany as well. And the house brand and lots of others are in German. And then they stick a note on the back with the translation in Serbian. Maya also told me yesterday, that in the movies and also TV, they have a lot of things that are in original language. She also asked me why we don't have it that way in Germany, since everybody ist good in English. I think it is because, we have a bigger market and it is much easier to have everything in your mother tongue.
I also found the train station, a post office and a huge shopping center. Later I walked along the two rivers. Again lots of people where outside skating, with there dogs or families, running, biking ... and the wheather was beautiful.

Contrasts:
You can see also a lot of contrast here or things appear differently when you get closer.
On the one hand you have this huge shopping center with all the stores you would also find in Germany, but everywhere else you have small little stores. And next to the shopping center you have this small little old houses.


Then there are those huge buildings, which seem pretty impressiv from far away. But then you get closer and see that windows are broken, the walls have cracks and it doesn't look like there is anything in there.
But on the other hand you also have buildings which look that way, but are perfectly renovated in the inside.


Other things:

• While I was at the other end of the city (exagerated but a little bit true), Dex called me from the reception team for the city tour. When I arrived back at the hostel then, the teamleader reception and the other interns he expected didn't show up. So the city tour was cancelled for now, but he showed me the faculty/building, where I will work for my project. And guess what: it is around the corner and I already walked by.
• I seem to blend in pretty well. I got already asked for the way two times. But I could never help, since they didn't speak English. And I cannot remember the street names so far. I just remember the ways I go and what things I see :-). The street names are just to complicated and sometimes I cannot even read it, because of the different signs.