My 29th of October started in India and finished at the other side of the world in Germany. But not without adventures in between!
The previous days I've spent in Mumbai while participating in our WCF Board meeting, wearing a sari and eating delicious Indian food.
When the meeting in Mumbai was over, I've taken the flight in order to leave India and return to daily life in Berlin. But my return trip was much more difficult, than I expected.
Sometimes your life is like a coincidence chain, where one incident causes all the future events. And so was my day. Firstly my flight was operated by Turkish Airlines. I usually prefer them for long journeys, already for quite a long time. Therefore I had to change flights in Istanbul.
When I arrived there, the first thing I've seen was a huge billboard advertising our regional WCF forum in Istanbul. I should say, I haven't expected to see anything like this, because our Forum is traditionally aimed for communication specialists and not for general public. Therefore we have never used advertising billboards before. But everything happens for the first time. Now the whole Istanbul is covered with posters about the upcoming event.
While I was looking around, my second flight took off without me and left me in Istanbul. The only way to continue my journey was to book a ticket for another flight Istanbul-Berlin. But unfortunately there were no tickets for this day any more. I was in panic, because I needed to be in Berlin as soon as possible. Exactly this day my son was opening a photo exhibition of Russian city Uryupinsk at the Russian House of Culture in Berlin, and I had to be there.
At this moment I remembered that Turkish Airlines was one of the partners of our regional Forum in Istanbul, which was held at 3-4 November 2016. Simultaneously I got in touch with a man from Turkish Airlines, who was working at the luggage drop-off.
We started to talk, and, he, while being impressed with my story and much more with all these billboards of our regional forum hanging around, decided to help me. So, he took over the negotiations with Turkish Airlines at the airport.
At the same time I've called the organizer of our regional forum in Istanbul and told him my story. I wondered, if our partners Turkish Airlines could do something with the problem of "the big boss". The efforts of my new Turkish friend from the airport from one side and my old Turkish friend from the regional WCF Forum in Istanbul from another side have resulted in a business-class flight ticket for much lower price.
So I could not only continue my journey and participate at the opening ceremony of the exhibition of my son in Berlin, but also enjoy all the business-class advantages during the flight.
That day I was actually saved by the person hardly knew. And he knew me neither. But nevertheless he has made everything he could to help me. When you constantly live in the flow of different events, meetings all over the world, forums, the life seems to be a miracle. And actually it becomes a miracle, when coincidences are not accidental and there appear very important and needed people exactly here and now! You just need to be opened and enjoy it.
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