Parisian Weekend

Paris, the city of Light, the most popular tourist destination. Never had I expected what all happened on the trip.

The iternary of the trip was to board Thalys early morning 7am from Rotterdam, meet other IITB junta at Notre-Dame, see places and in the night crash beneath Eiffel tower, a night-out!

Me, and Satos boarded the Thalys, got bored because the train won't run at 300 kph as expected till Brussels. I went and sat at the Restrobar in the train. I had read somewhere that French people are kind of rude, so I didn't expect the train journey to be a lot interactive one. But, it turned out that the bartender was a Dutch guy. After staying in Netherlands for a month or so, it felt like I was one of the Dutch people. The bartender, Bart, was a really nice guy and to my much surprise he knew a lot of India and its people.

I had heard that Asian people are not so much respected in the West, but for the first time in my life I was hearing praise for Indian people from a Dutch (anyone from a non-asian country, actually). Bart, was telling, that he had heard that he has seen a lot of "smart, young Indian guys come to Europe for work", and "India is growing too fast". The train picked up speed and I moved on, after buying a coffee from the bar.

I was sitting in the bar, cherishing the 150 bucks coffee I had just bought, and thinking about the French, trying to predict what will happen if in Paris, I asked someone a address and he might give me a cold look, when a French women started a conversation with me.

Thalys had picked up speed, and was racing against the bushes at 300kph. I started feeling a slight discomfort, maybe I needed a breakfast. The French woman started talking to me, and we had a really lengthy conversation. She was a singer in a French band, and soon the whole orchestra joined us in conversation. Soon, Avijit also joined in.

Paris, was a little colder that day. Forecast was a slight breeze. Notre Dame de Paris, a magnificent cathedral, we were standing near the gate when Anchit spotted us. Soon there was a lot of "junta" from IITB.

Moving on, Inani (nickname suppressed) had the idea of band pic ! It was one of the major photo shoot attraction of the Parisians that day. Someone told me, we had featured in the Parisian Daily that day!.

Well, that day most of the trip was touristy.

Interesting things were about to start. We went to this place called, Basilique du Sacré-Cœur. The cathedral was on a small hill, was really nice ... blah, blah, blah. One could have a nice view of Paris from the cathedral, so people were sitting on the stairs and watching a really bad guitarist play some really arbit songs.

Well, suddenly, I wanted to do something worth remembering in Paris. College is about to end and there wasn't too many incidents worth remembering and talk about.

Well, after watching the movie Eurotrip 10-15 times, you really start feeling that Europe is the place to have your wildest fantasies out [:D].

I convinced Sajid, that we are going to play B.C. Sutta (Zeest Band) there in front of the crowd. There were not so many Indians also there so it was more of a good chance to do something crazy ! In the beginning, only me and Akhil were enthu enough to do it. Others were like, "tujhe chadd gayi hai", "NO MAN ! comeon", "tu pagal hai", etc etc. In the end the result was --

Rupal didn't shoot the part where we introduced ourselves.

Sajid : Hello everyone, we are a group of Indian students. We would like to play a song for you. This is a popular football song. So sit back and enjoy.

And we started to play ...

Later ...

Subrat : Amazing, phod diya

Sajid : these people were laughing at us, we were so much out of sync.

Rupal : There was a Indian girl, she was so embarrassed but she was laughing a lot, i guess she enjoyed it.

Shyam : Ohh man ! I just cannot believe what we just did !

Anvesha : Please edit the scenes aur mujhe nikaal do unmein se.

Akhil : yaar .. mazaa aa gaya

Paris day did not end here...