Trainees

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Originally uploaded by kkadak.

Other trainees is definitely one of the best part of a traineeship. The truth is, it is so much easier to make friends among other foreigners than locals. And trainees having similar problems, similar joys and similar daily schedules do stick together. We go out for sightseeing, do shopping on the markets (includes huge loads of haggling which is much more fun, when there are more of us), gossip about our romantic relationships, complain about local behaviours we don't understand, have dinner in nice restaurant or cup of coffee and icecream in a cafe, party, often even live together. We build strong connections and friendships. The sad part is that few of us stay for longer (for example from that picture, only me, Nina and Fridde are still in Bangladesh) and those who do have to go through so many farewells and wave goodbye to so many friends. But even if the contacts later by e-mail are not really frequent, I'm sure, whenever the life for some reason brings us together again, we do remember each other and still feel connected.