After more than 1 month in Bangalore going in a bus starts to have some routine.
But not everything in a bus is routine, it's just impossible here.
The first time i got in a bus i was thinking, am i going to survive?!!! You start to think, where is the stop? In which stop you should get out? We don't have any kind of information in the buses, most of them are really old, more old even than my parents. The first thing that is complicated (in some cases) is to get in to the bus. Or it won't stop or it might be so much crowd. After this you have to order a ticket, this part in the beginning was so complicated! The guys that sells the tickets most of them don't speaks English or only speaks Indian English. They don't understand our accent, so we need to order the tickets in "Indian English". In some cases i just would say "Last stop", but even here they didn't understand. Some times it were some Indians that help me, that save me!
After here you just have to arrange a place to be (in some cases impossible) and have some luck for someone help you.
But after looking to back in time we realize if we don't walk at least one or two weeks, every day in a bus we won't live the Indian experience. You have moments that you want to kick everybody, but you just have to relax and enjoy! I know that after a long work day this might be hard, but you have to try it. If you can do this your experience will be much better.
I had so good moments there!!! And i pass every day at least 3h in buses. Most of my friends are always complaining that they were stuck in the traffic for half an hour or their work is so far. And why i'm the person that (probably) have more reasons to complaint and don't do it? At least so often. I thought complaining was a thing of my culture, but know i start to realize that after all we don't complaint so much. People have to start to enjoy the little pleasures that the life has to give us, to understand that you won't live more that moment, to transform an adversity in an advantage! Why? You will be much happy, but always depend how you want to live your life! Everything it's up you!
Anyway today i entered in the usual bus, i took my seat (i had luck today) and i look around, to the bus drive, to the guy that sells the tickets and i realize one thing, i was starting to recognize them. The funny thing is that in the end a guy come to me ask me a question ( yes, there are Indians that now, ask me questions like where they should get out) and in the end says "we are always in the same bus " (or something like that).
I was coming in the bus and thinking in all my improvements, how i was starting to be a complete (or almost) Indian, at least in the bus. In the beginning i bought 4 tickets per day, now i buy a day ticket. I don't need to be (trying) more than a minute asking for my ticket, and don't need to be asking for my change in the end!
In the beginning if a bus was crowd i just would wait for another, now i realize that in the most of the cases the next one will be the same or worst, so just enter! If you don't have a seat you're going standing up, if you don't have a place inside a bus you just going with your feet (or foot) inside ( in the door) and your body outside. I have to say that it's an amazing experience, at the same time frightening, but also with a feeling of freedom, excitement. If you have afraid of radical sports but you want to try, start by this. Or if the bus don't stop just run after him and jump over it, it's also cool (sometimes), mainly if you have no space. But or you jump for the right position or you'r dead! For now i always jump it correctly and i pretend to keep it.
Another moment that can be very funny but at the same time very "frustrating" is when in a bus where it can fit 100 people they put 500. You just simple don't can move, and you have the ticket guy all the time bother you. But you also can relax and think how it's possible? And you can look for outside of the bus and see 6 or 7 guys outside of the bus and the only connection that they have with bus is a foot in the door and a arm by the window.
In all cases if you want to experience the all complete Indian experience you have to pass by all this and much more. I can't tell you everything, you have to try by yourself. It's an experience that sometimes you, sometimes, can think: what the hell i'm doing here?! But after a seconds you're laughing of something.
Enjoy what the life offers you, that's my theme today!
See you...
But not everything in a bus is routine, it's just impossible here.
The first time i got in a bus i was thinking, am i going to survive?!!! You start to think, where is the stop? In which stop you should get out? We don't have any kind of information in the buses, most of them are really old, more old even than my parents. The first thing that is complicated (in some cases) is to get in to the bus. Or it won't stop or it might be so much crowd. After this you have to order a ticket, this part in the beginning was so complicated! The guys that sells the tickets most of them don't speaks English or only speaks Indian English. They don't understand our accent, so we need to order the tickets in "Indian English". In some cases i just would say "Last stop", but even here they didn't understand. Some times it were some Indians that help me, that save me!
After here you just have to arrange a place to be (in some cases impossible) and have some luck for someone help you.
But after looking to back in time we realize if we don't walk at least one or two weeks, every day in a bus we won't live the Indian experience. You have moments that you want to kick everybody, but you just have to relax and enjoy! I know that after a long work day this might be hard, but you have to try it. If you can do this your experience will be much better.
I had so good moments there!!! And i pass every day at least 3h in buses. Most of my friends are always complaining that they were stuck in the traffic for half an hour or their work is so far. And why i'm the person that (probably) have more reasons to complaint and don't do it? At least so often. I thought complaining was a thing of my culture, but know i start to realize that after all we don't complaint so much. People have to start to enjoy the little pleasures that the life has to give us, to understand that you won't live more that moment, to transform an adversity in an advantage! Why? You will be much happy, but always depend how you want to live your life! Everything it's up you!
Anyway today i entered in the usual bus, i took my seat (i had luck today) and i look around, to the bus drive, to the guy that sells the tickets and i realize one thing, i was starting to recognize them. The funny thing is that in the end a guy come to me ask me a question ( yes, there are Indians that now, ask me questions like where they should get out) and in the end says "we are always in the same bus " (or something like that).
I was coming in the bus and thinking in all my improvements, how i was starting to be a complete (or almost) Indian, at least in the bus. In the beginning i bought 4 tickets per day, now i buy a day ticket. I don't need to be (trying) more than a minute asking for my ticket, and don't need to be asking for my change in the end!
In the beginning if a bus was crowd i just would wait for another, now i realize that in the most of the cases the next one will be the same or worst, so just enter! If you don't have a seat you're going standing up, if you don't have a place inside a bus you just going with your feet (or foot) inside ( in the door) and your body outside. I have to say that it's an amazing experience, at the same time frightening, but also with a feeling of freedom, excitement. If you have afraid of radical sports but you want to try, start by this. Or if the bus don't stop just run after him and jump over it, it's also cool (sometimes), mainly if you have no space. But or you jump for the right position or you'r dead! For now i always jump it correctly and i pretend to keep it.
Another moment that can be very funny but at the same time very "frustrating" is when in a bus where it can fit 100 people they put 500. You just simple don't can move, and you have the ticket guy all the time bother you. But you also can relax and think how it's possible? And you can look for outside of the bus and see 6 or 7 guys outside of the bus and the only connection that they have with bus is a foot in the door and a arm by the window.
In all cases if you want to experience the all complete Indian experience you have to pass by all this and much more. I can't tell you everything, you have to try by yourself. It's an experience that sometimes you, sometimes, can think: what the hell i'm doing here?! But after a seconds you're laughing of something.
Enjoy what the life offers you, that's my theme today!
See you...
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