Presentation

Wow, i'm just back from the presentation, and it was really, really, really good :)
Not just me - of course i've been also good - but the whole thing. At the beginning they were a bit too formal, so i started to worry a bit, that my presentation won't be 'professional' enough. But then i started (after solving some problems with the mocrophone - there were about 200 people present in a room full with fans, so it was impossible to be heard without the micro, even though i would have preferred to talk withut it). And i think i was good. First i made some funny cooments, and they also found them funny (+ this was a sign that they do understand my accent), and then i went on. They were busy with taking notes, and also after i've finished, they were asking questions showing that they did undertstand.

What was weird is the fact that generally in their opinion western society is soooo great and full of possibilities. And now here i am - also a possibility they don't have, this free travelling around the globe - and tell them statistical data like:
- every 2nd marriage ends with a divorce
- every 3rd child is born to an unmarried mother
- every 3rd pregnancy ends with an abortion...
All these data comletely up-to-date, last year's statistics from KSH. Something, that i also find unbelivable and frigtening.
OK, i don't say that i'd be eager to be a woman in india, but obviously our lifes are also not so great. Or even more: i guess these people are quite happy with their own problems, just as we can be happy in a society like ours.

And one more thing. One of my colleagues, S. is getting married next months. They've just fixed the date for the wedding a week ago. And she is sooooo happy, you wouldn't imagine. Although hers is also a "fixed" or "set-up" marriage, arranged by a marriage-maker. She's only met her husband-to-be a few times, and she had to make up her mind if she likes him (generally in urban families the girls and boys have no chance to express their opinion on their fiance, the parents decide for them). And she likes him, she's smiling the whole day, she's busy with the preparation - just as any of us would be before her wedding. And another girl will also marry here soon, and she's also changed into a more happy person, since she knows, that the boy has said yes.
See? this is what we don't see there in europe, that these people definitely ARE happy to get married like this, and they don't even really think about how it would be to marry someone they find themselves, and fall in love with.
Two days ago i've been to the school's photograph with S. because of my phone. And she was definitely flirting with that guy. But the thought never has crossed her mind to find her husband like this: first flirt, then love, than marry. No, sympathy is enough, love might come afterwards, but happiness is there.

And i'm also happy, because i've met the school's student association's head, an 18year old girl, and we exchanged phone numbers, she'll probably come along and help me tu buy a tsuridar for S's wedding :)))
And also, she'll make a henna-tattoo on my hand on monday :)

Wow, i'm getting to know people :)))

There were some photos taken during the presentation by the official photograph, once i have the pictures, i'll put them online.