Irevna, the company that I work for, has opened a new set up in Argentina, and five guys from there were in India to get to know the company, its culture, etc. I, along with Ashish—my colleague—were in charge of co-coordinating their trip to India. The amount of difference that exists between cultures is vast. Almost everything from weather to how ‘Wednesday’ is pronounced is different.
Being in the Southern hemisphere it is only natural that the weather pattern in Argentina is opposite to that of India. It is a temperate place for most part, except for eh South that is close to Antarctica and obviously, cold.
The guys, Miguel, Juan, Marcelo, Gustavo and Carlos, were all pretty cool guys with no airs of any sort. They have a tight schedule here and I may not get to interact much, with them. Ashish and I took them shopping on Saturday, and they liked it a lot. Their greatest problem here is the food. They CANNOT tolerate even a teeny-weeny bit of spice. Everything has to be bland, and in India, it is very difficult ( Impossible? ) to find something bland. That’s unfortunate in a way, as they do not know what they are missing out on.
One of their pet topics here seems to be the traffic. It always seems to amaze them. It is not the volume of traffic—I am sure Buenos Aires should be equally congested—but the utter lack of order that surprises them. That there are no lanes, that hardly anybody cares for traffic rules, and that everyone really loves to honk is something that they find hard to digest. The last part always gets them worked up!!!
From what they have described of Argentina, it is a place that I would certainly like to go - the night life, the carnivals ( ala Brazil ), the geography - all sound interesting. Let’s see…someday, I might go there!
Being in the Southern hemisphere it is only natural that the weather pattern in Argentina is opposite to that of India. It is a temperate place for most part, except for eh South that is close to Antarctica and obviously, cold.
The guys, Miguel, Juan, Marcelo, Gustavo and Carlos, were all pretty cool guys with no airs of any sort. They have a tight schedule here and I may not get to interact much, with them. Ashish and I took them shopping on Saturday, and they liked it a lot. Their greatest problem here is the food. They CANNOT tolerate even a teeny-weeny bit of spice. Everything has to be bland, and in India, it is very difficult ( Impossible? ) to find something bland. That’s unfortunate in a way, as they do not know what they are missing out on.
One of their pet topics here seems to be the traffic. It always seems to amaze them. It is not the volume of traffic—I am sure Buenos Aires should be equally congested—but the utter lack of order that surprises them. That there are no lanes, that hardly anybody cares for traffic rules, and that everyone really loves to honk is something that they find hard to digest. The last part always gets them worked up!!!
From what they have described of Argentina, it is a place that I would certainly like to go - the night life, the carnivals ( ala Brazil ), the geography - all sound interesting. Let’s see…someday, I might go there!
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