My Very First Trip: A Working Trip in India//club5050

Greetings to all readers and authors of the wonderful Steem-Travelers community. In the new contest, I want to tell you about my first working trip.

As I have already written before, I have been traveling for a long time on music contracts as a singer and bass guitarist. When I was just starting out, I found an intermediary agency and went to work in another country for the first time in my life. This country was India, and I went there for a year.

Thinking about something and doing it are 2 completely different things. When I agreed to this contract, I didn't fully realize what it was like to go to a foreign country for a year. A week passes, the second one passes, you have already seen all the sights, but you realize that this is just the beginning. You still have to live and live here. Slowly life itself in another country, at first so bright and exciting, turns into a routine. You no longer live as a tourist, but as a local resident: you go to the store for sour cream and stand in line at a beer shop.

What do I remember most from this long long trip?

• We lived in the city of Calcutta. It is the capital of Bengal. The food in all of India is very spicy, but Bengali cuisine is so spicy that it feels like you have fire in your mouth.At the same time, the food is very tasty.

• Calcutta is a huge multi-million city. There are definitely many sights to see from the tourist's point of view. For example, this is the Victoria Memorial.

On the one hand, the building looks like the Capitol in the USA, on the other hand, it has a strong Indian flavor. And if you are in South-Eastern Asia for the first time, it strikes to the core!

• Temples near Calcutta are also very exotic and fabulously beautiful. Here I want to photograph every element of the decor.

• The contrast between wealth and poverty in Calcutta is colossal.On the one hand, many people live on the streets. On the other hand, there are luxury hotels, restaurants, shops. This is how, for example, a toilet in a golf club looks like.

• We worked in a luxurious hotel. I sang and my friend Masha played the violin. Most of all, we were struck by the fact that only men danced. In fact, only men came to the bar. I don't mean women from Europe, but I'm talking about the local population. The fact is that Calcutta is located in the hinterland of India, it is not a tourist city, but an industrial one. Therefore, visitors to the bar where we worked, were mostly visiting merchants. Sometimes you could see how they arranged a men's disco.

A crowd of men dancing to our songs. It was both funny and very unusual. For example, in Russia such a situation is completely excluded. Men will never dance if there are no women in the hall.And here it is the norm.

• A goat tied up on the central street of a huge city. Again, if we consider Russia or even Europe, it is difficult to imagine such a situation. And plus, this goat is very unusual. We do not have such breeds of goats. I stood and looked at the goat. And it looks at me. I wonder what it was thinking about at that moment.
  (The goat's photo is the first)

I can write a lot about India, but, unfortunately, I have to finish somewhere. I think I will have more opportunities to share with you my impressions about this wonderful, fantastic, unusual country and about my work there.

Thank you @hive-111293 for this contest! I really like the contest topics and the community as a whole!

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