My Voyage to Deustchland - Part II

As soon as I stepped into the hotel at around 3.30PM with the luggage taking the help of my Taxi driver, I got a call from my Manager at the reception. The first thing that he asked me was why was I late!!!(I had missed my first train in the timetable sent by him due to my flight delay).
He said our co-ordinator would pick me up at around 4PM from the hotel and take me to the client location and introduce me to them. I asked him for 4.30PM, because I had still not entered my room.So, there was this challenge in front of me to get ready in just one hour including shifting to my room, unpacking etc..I was very consicious about the time sense that the Germans had. However,45 minutes passed away with just unpacking and things like that. So I gave up the idea of taking bath because I had still not explored the bathroom :P. I just freshened up, changed into some formals and before it was 2 minutes for 4.30, I got a call from the reception that my Co-ordinator was waiting for me. I was concerned that I had not bathed. So I looked into the mirror. I was looking pretty decent even without a shower :P. So came down to the reception with confidence :D.
Me and my co-ordinator got introduced to each other and we made a move towards the office. My office was 16Kms from my hotel. For the first time in my life I was in a car which was speeding at 180-200Km/Hr!!!! And I could still see other cars passing by ours!!! Our car was on the Autobahn (a dedicated expressway). Within 10-12 minutes we were at our office meeting the client. He coolly apologised for his bad English!! He showed me my workstation, took me around the office introducing me to everyone in team. He even showed me the restrooms telling me that HERR- was for men and DAMEN- was for women. He showed me the pantry and water bottle wending machine and other machines too. Water bottle machine was something different for me. To get a bottle, I had to insert 15cents. My clientside person said, water was free and we have to pay for the bottle. But there was one more machine which accepted empty bottles and gave us back 15 cents!! This kind of recycling arrangement really impressed me. I got introduced to the first thing in my way to understand why that country was very neat. After all this formal/Informal introduction at around 6.30, we were again back in the car to get back to my hotel room. I was eagerly looking forward for a drive at that speed again :P.
Once I entered my room , I remembered that I was all alone now. My manager had told me that there were other 2 associates from my company who are already staying in this Hotel and they would be accompanying me for next 15-20 days. But I had not met them yet.I had to wait for them. For the first time I was experiencing what loneliness was like.I had eaten something in the flight at 7AM and nothing else after that. There was no one asking about that. I had totally forgotten my hunger as I was busy right from the time I had entered the Country. I remembered, I had not called my parents(where was the time to do that?). On the table, there was an instruction card for using the phone. Luckily english version was also there. I tried following that. But somehow, I could not get connected. I felt I was far from everyone. For a moment, I was almost in tears!!After sometime, I heard a knock on my door. It was Hema, the other associate whom my manager had told.( there is nothing much to write about the other guy). I was a bit relieved. Then she took me to her room. Got introduced to each other. She was from Chennai but her mother tongue was same as mine with lot of tamil accent influence in it :-).After seeing an apple on her table, I came to know that I was hungry :P. I told her "Hotte hasitha idhe"(I am hungry). She smiled and told me to eat the apple and in the meantime she would cook some rice. She got a call from her husband. While she was talking to her husband, I gave her my brother's number and asked her to give it to her husband. After her call, my brother called me.Her room had 2 beds with a small kitchenette. My room didnt have kitchen in it. But I was supposed to stay in that room only for 4 days and after that I had shift to another room with a kitchen. That day I ate with her, went back to my room and slept alone. After half an hour, I called my Manager and said that I would be shifting to Hema's room since hers was a double room. He smiled and said OK and asked the co-ordinator to talk to the hotel staff about it in the morning.
By the end of the day ,I understood that the temperature was very low and I had to wear a jacket all the time when I am outside.