Heyyyyy!!!!
It's been a long long long time since I had been on my blog. This time I am in as a new person with a new mind set. Well, my life has been moving at a faster pace since November. When I met you all last time, I had been waiting for the confirmation letter from the company I had got into, and I did get the confirmation the very next day after I wrote my last post. After that, things went into a frenzied state! The letter asked me to reach Faridabad (Haryana) by the 2nd of November!!! There was no way that I could get a reservation on the train and even if I got one I wouldn't be able to reach there on the 2nd!! It will at least take 4 days to reach there and then I will be disqualified from joining the company. So I decided to take a flight to Delhi on 1st Nov. The training that was to begin on 3rd Nov will take two months to get over and the accommodation and all such things was to be taken care of by the company. I packed up my things, bought whatever I wanted for the two months there and reached Coimbatore airport on 1st morning. The flight was at 10.30 a.m. and my mom,papa and sis accompanied me. One of my old office colleague was also with us.
I had butterflies in my stomach because of three reasons: The first was that I was going to fly for the first time in my life. The second was that Delhi was very much new to me as I have never travelled north and the third was that I was going to meet my dearest friend for the first time at Delhi. Amma had asked him to take me to my training centre as we had nobody else staying in Delhi whom we knew closely, so he was going to be my caretaker for the d-day.
I bid goodbye to amma, papa and anju and amma started crying and I boarded the flight at sharp 10.30. I too had tears in my eyes, tears for leaving my family for two months and at the same time tears of thankfulness to god for giving me this special opportunity. I am so grateful to him for all the luck that I had lately found in my life. It was a very nice experience flying through the clouds. Luckily, I got a window seat and soon I forgot about land. I had brought a book to read but I never felt like reading it in the new world that I was in.
At last, by 2 o'clock I landed at Delhi airport and my friend was waiting there for me impatiently. It was the first time I was meeting him and I felt so happy and I saw tears in his eyes because of the happiness that he felt in his heart. I could feel his happiness within a few seconds of being with him. We boarded a taxi. One of his acquaintance had also accompanied him and I talked and talked till we reached my training centre. I had so many things to talk to him but I felt like he was finding it difficult to form his feelings into words. I was happy for him too. At last, we had met!!! After we reached the training centre, the people there told us that they had arranged accommodation for me just for that night at a nearby hotel because our accommodation at the training centre will only be ready by 2nd evening. So we drove there and I got a room to share there with a girl whom I had already met for the medical test. I bid goodbye to my friend and thanked him for coming this far just to recieve me and take me safely to my place. He had an exam the day after and he had come to meet me in between his time for studies by travelling one whole night. He is a real gem of person in my life whom I got because it was pre-destined, I feel.
On 2nd, the three of us (one more girl was there in the hotel) reached the training centre. It was a beautiful place. I happened to hear from people there later that it had been a 3-star hotel years back and now they have changed it into a training college. It's a huge place with a beautiful garden and surroundings. I would say Faridabad is not a good choice to stay for a long time because these days, it's too polluted. It's very hard to walk through the roadside without being dumped with dust. But the college had a good environment. We had a badminton court, facility to play table tennis and carroms and various other games, a swimming pool and a gym inside the college. All our certificates were verified on the first day and the training was to start from 3rd. The certificate verification went on till night 9 o'clock. We were all damn tired waiting and waiting for it to finish. We met people from various parts of the country and we could see the unity in diversity there.
The next day, that is, on the 3rd, our training started. Myself and a guy named Abhinav (a chubby baby looking boy) were the ones who gave the welcome speech to the CMD. It was a great beginning and our trainers were real good people. I will never forget the friendly Wahab sir, the mic-volumed Khurana sir, the uncomprehensible Jaiswal sir (principal) and our sweet Mudita ma'm. We were 60-people in that batch and people from almost all the states of India were there. Each person in the batch was special in their own way. I felt great to be a part of that lot. Every evening we were asked to write up that day's happenings in a diary and submit it the next morning and we used to get marks also for that. We also had a factory visit to a nearby factory and that was also a good experience (especially the lunch that we had after the factory visit was memorable!
We had small shopping sprees to all nearby markets in the evenings after our training. It was fun to shop at a very new place and the price there was extremely less for things which we won't be able to see in our place. We bought so many nicknacks. My roommate was three months' carrying at that time, so she used to have difficulties adjusting with the food and environment but other than that, things went fine. She was an excellent speaker and she became my good friend. Our other roommate was a silent person but she too was easy to adjust with and she was a good hearted person. We three used to joke about things and make fun of every possible circumstance that comes our way. We were a group of very jovial people. My friend used to imitate everyone in our class so well and we used to have a good time in our room rolling on the floor laughing. We used to go shopping together and every time that we went out we three ended up returning with our pockets empty!!!
Everything was going great until..........my ON-THE-JOB TRAINING!!!!!
Will tell you all about it in the next post!
