A day in Park

Yesterday I met a lady Aleena and her daughter Ada in the park. My day in Austria never goes by without going to park. My one and half year old kid loves being here. In fact now I also enjoy this part of the daily routine. Aleena was a pretty Romanian lady with Spanish husband. She is an English teacher.

In the past 6 months of staying in Austria I had kind of given up on talking to people because in the course of self learning German phase. I thought I would be better not talking to people at all. I know it’s stupid but believe me I tried a lot but failed. Oh common on ‘sorry’ is so simple in English but here in Austria they say ‘enchuldigen’. Anyway by far now I know ‘Thank you’ is ‘Danke’; one is ‘EIN’ in fact I know one to ten in German. Wow it feels like I am back in the nursery again but that’s not enough for a satisfactory conversation with someone. Meanwhile I exchange smiles.

Suddenly I heard a voice “Are you Indian”. I was like “YAA” with very strange expressions on my face because who the hell was interested in knowing my nationality. I turned towards this beautiful lady and went on .We talked for really a long time and believe as a girl I was in such a relief, discussing about baby and stuff, fashion and so on. We also went on discussing about culture out here and way back home. It was amazing to find someone so amicable.

Today I am in the park with lots of moms, lots of kids, some people with their poodles really quite a variety. As it's spring here so you can find beautiful flowers, leaves back on the trees, dim but consistent sunlight, many pigeons and even more people feeding them. But what I was really looking for was Aleena. I waited for too long and don’t think she will come today.

 I packed my things took my baby and started my walk back to home. In my head I was explaining myself that it was a nice experience yesterday and never mind we will meet someday. Suddenly, like a genie appeared ‘Joy’, a Philipino girl whom I met some months back in the same park. And believe me she was all jabber Jabber jabber . I was there for a long time listening to her holiday experience, new clothes and accessories she bought from the Philippines; they are building a house back in the country and whatnot. I cannot forget that approx. 61 pesos makes a Euro and so on. Now I even know for how much peso you can have really a good pedicure for yourself in the Philippines.
I don’t know why but suddenly I started missing my solitude and wanted it more than anything.