Wednesday, June 27, 2012

From Molmo Swedan

26 June,2012
Malmo, Swedan..!
Julius Nonderson met me during Kala Ghoda Art festival in 2010. He was the boy from swedan, who was traveling in India meeting all Sudharak Olwe's friends. So he visited my apartment in Mira Road in Mumbai too. later my friend Bhagwan Kaushik drove us to huge pagoda temple near esselworld in Borivali.
this was my first visit to that place too.
Now I am here in Malmo writing these words on my blog about him.
when I wrote to me that I will be in Germany for 6 months, he invited me to visit Swedan. what else a greedy traveler wants? even a slight hint of invitation is enough to explore the new destination.
but this was not just a hint.
He traveled to Berlin to meet me and had a plan to treat me with the most exotic travel in my life.
In Berlin we walked in the war memorial park and later visited

Pergamon Museum - Berlin, de.

 and took a cheapest option to travel to Copenhagen. by bus which costed just €22. Our bus crossed the sea on ferry and filmed this amazing morning from the deck.
we arrived too early to experience the Copenhagen. I had a black coffee sitting on the stairs where a group show of photo-journalistic work was on display.
we took a train for Molmo and crossed the sea again. my camera was constantly working and i was in deep surprise with the journey which I never planned.
walking from train station to this apartment was my first glimpse of swedan...! we walked in a park and beautiful lake listening to birds chirping.
I did not expect what would happen on Oland...!
and really nothing happened....!
we sat in a beautiful house listening to birds and sea and wind and chatted endlessly.
what they call a typical MID-SUMMER
was really very special Indian like me.
there is much more which can not be described.
the connectivity with nature and trust with people is the some of the key factors we all need to learn deeply and keep practicing.
Julius is a student studying nature science. In the summer time he is working as a truck driver in a small store in malmo driving cargo small truck for 8 hours  in a store to earn money for the entire year. he tells me that job is physically challenging as he has to pick up heavey loads from his hand to load on the mini truck and then keep it in different locations. He has taken the job because the money is good. he will work till july 6days a week and then go for the study till the next summer.
Swidish society is highly individualistic in nature. children leave there parents to stay alone and independent as they become 20.
Swidish people prefer doing all the work themselves. not only cooking and cleaning -I mean.
work like house repairing. building painting plumbing too..! they hardly look for help in the day to day life.