Right now I am in the city of Grodno in Belarus, a CIS country that lies between Poland and Russia. This is a very beautiful place. It is an old city with very friendly people who live a peaceful life. Some things I noticed about this place are:
1. People are very calm and friendly.
2. People are hard-working and they do not mix work and family life. They work with full attention during the day and leave office by 6:00 or 6:30. This is very good.
The EPAM colleagues whom we came to meet in Grodno are real fundoo guys. Yauheni, the project co-ordinator accompanies us for lunch everyday to help us with the Russian menu in restaurants. Another colleague Aliaksandr (Shuck as we call him) gives us a lift from office to Hotel everyday. Another guy - Dzmitry (Dzeema) arranged for a place where our colleague Asif could say his Friday prayer. All of them are very helpful. They are technically strong and very nice chaps.
We had a Bowling party yesterday with the EPAM colleagues. We all enjoyed to the core. Some of them-especially Ramesh and Shuck were trying to attain the highest level of enlightenment (even beyond Nirvana) :-)
Tomorrow they have planned for a barbeque party in some place here. I am looking forward for that.
At one side, I feel attached to this place and the people here. But on the other side, I am yearning to return to Bangalore and meet my family. In fact, I am more inclined to the latter. It was hard for me to assimilate the information that my return journey would be postponed by a day.
But one thing for sure- I enjoyed every minute I spent here and I shall never forget this trip.
I have uploaded some good snaps of the trip to my flickr site. Enjoy.
I shall write more on this trip later. Watch this space.
