The Melting Pot
An unusual stroke of luck followed by several sarcastic comments and my name came out of a lottery for the appointment of the Official Representative of the college for DIAC (that's Dubai International Academic City- 37 colleges, common functions, student hub and all). My duties thus included representing the college at the meetings, forwarding mails, and basically carrying out small small formal things for the student hub. One such activity was the Winter Week of Welcome, which is basically your everyday fresher party. I was given the task of helping the various sponsors who would be there with their stalls and their marketing strategies. Dubai, is called the "Melting Pot" of the world, wherein people from all parts of the world (basically, India Pakistan and Philippines, rest are just a minority!!!) meet and work with each other. So we (the representatives) were instructed to be very specific when interacting with various people. In the end as it turned out- every on...