Ingelore suddenly stops in her tracks in the marketplace at Finsterwalde, just about on a level with the Ratsklause inn. “Look,” she says to her friend, who’s carrying two shopping bags and walking one step behind her, and points to where our bus is standing in the middle of the square with its lovely residential buildings in Classical style and its Art Nouveau facades. “It looks like there’s something going on over there.”

I happen to be walking past the pair at that moment and catch the last few words Ingelore said. I had just been about to take a little stroll around the town and a look at the singers’ monument outside the savings bank. Now I change my mind. After all, an ant is always on the job. “That’s the BBI Infobus on its summer tour,” I tell them.

“Oh, Ingelore, there’s nothing for us there,” the other woman says. “Oh yes there is,” I contradict her and proceed to guide them to our info stand. I show the two ladies the exhibition on how construction of the airport is progressing – but only give them a brief tour. Then I show them our super competitions in which they have the chance to win free flights and tours of the BBI construction site. That soon arouses their interest.

But it isn’t until someone from the training company Trainico tells them about the job openings at and connected with the BBI that Ingelore’s friend puts her shopping down at last. “My nephew is looking for a job,” she says by way of explanation and starts asking the man from Trainico all kinds of questions.

Before long, they are deep in conversation and have long since forgotten all about me. Great, I think to myself, now I can at least go and take a look at Finsterwalde’s singers’ monument.

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