Teaching your native language and with it your cultural background in a foreign country like India is an adventure in itself. Let me give you some examples. Little did I think about that a cartoon picture of a woman can make grown men blush and turn their heads down when mentioning “der Po” (German word for “bum”) while talking about body parts. Also, as I am used to say “Gesundheit” (“bless you”) to a sneezing person in Germany, here, people just apologize for sneezing. Another one: Once, one of my students asked me with an expression close to horror in his eyes “I heard Germans eat food that is not completely done!” It took me a moment to realize that he was referring to some of the ways meat is prepared in Germany and once more realized the differences between Germany and India when it comes to perception, behaviour and food.

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At Knowledge Must we are extremely delighted to present you our new China office in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. Located in the very city center of this vibrant city, we picked the most energetic spot for our office: Chengdu's famed pedestrian street Chunxi Lu, a street as well as a contiguous shopping and entertainment district, with thousands of shopping malls, department stores, boutiques, restaurants, bars, cafes, street stalls – you name it.

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If you were given a choice between your Passion and a Job that you don’t like much, what would you choose? Of course you will answer that you would love to carry on with your passion and not with a job that you are not interested in. But what if that job pays you good bucks but your passion doesn’t do any good to you in monetary terms? Many people would probably switch to the job leaving behind their passion because of societal pressure and conceived monetary concerns.

It is true that people expect you to take a good job just after you complete your graduation and that way society assumes you to be truly settled in your life. But this well-paying job might just become something for the next couple of years before you start feeling so bored and monotonous with doing something you are not interested in and then you realize that you are definitely not getting anywhere with your life – or at least not where you wanted to. If that is the case, then it might be really frustrating to deal with almost anything going on in your life. So what you need to do is find your passion and go for it rather than just going for any other bloody boring job.

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