October

During October, there was the Diwali which is the indian "Christmas". They have celebrations all through the week-end with prayers (Puja) and the tradition wants you to wear NEW clothes. Then they do firecrackers in front of every hostel, all night long! For that occasion, we participated in doing a RANGOLI, which is a drawing on the floor, filled with coloured sand. It gives a message of peace and welcoming for the occasion.
The swiss/french girls doing their first rangoli... Enjoy !


First you draw the design on the floor (left(Me, Amandine))

Then you do like the indians do (right)



Then you can also get some help from indian friends...

...3h later...
We are proud to present you OUR RANGOLI ! (2nd prize!!)

Otherwise the month of October ended with a nice event... my 24th birthday !! It started at midnight of the 26 oct. Anna, Danielle, Amandine, Aurore, Fanny, Jan, Romain, Olivier, Benoit, Reto, Vivek & Arun were waiting at the hostel entrance with a surprise cake ! Even Suryadeep and Jimmy from my "band" were there ;-)
(unfortunately not the bass player, who is ALSO born on the 27th oct.. Incredible coincidence !!)

All day cakes and good food...B-day tea time in the mess (Mara, Lisa), then indian food (Keki, Sin)

At evening, dinner in Sangheeta. Nice table of 20 people!! Thank you to all who came !! And thank you for the gifts !! And thank you for the wishes, sms, calls !!

(Me, Matthieu)