Hmm. Where to begin? Its much easier to write as you go than to have to look back, so I guess I’ll start from the beginning.
I arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday evening and headed out Friday morning to go south to the coastal belt around Barisal and Patuakhali. We continued south on [...]
I’m back in Dhaka after a ten hour car ride. I have not seen a bideshi (foreigner) since Friday morning. When that happens, I know I’m seeing the good stuff. That means I’m off the beaten path, seeing the true sides of the country and not what all the tourists see. [...]
Right now I’m traveling south into Bangladesh. I’m using my friends iPhone to post from the road. There is a thermometer in the car that keeps going up the further we go. It reads 34 celcius right now. Not sure in Fahrenheit, but it’s warm.
The driving is a lot like Honduras where the answer [...]
Today was a loooong day. I’m leaving for Bangladesh tomorrow to visit a friend, Shawn. I’ve been wanting to go for a few weeks, but this is still a last minute trip. I didn’t get my plane ticket or visa until today. I was hoping to do it yesterday, but well, [...]
I just finished watching a movie called Outsourced. It was excellent. Its basically a romantic (sort of) comedy about a man who is sent to India to train people at a new call center. The movie does an excellent job of giving you a glimpse of being plunged into a new and [...]
When you live internationally, you tend to meet people from other nations (hince, international!). And when you get to know these people, you find out some very very interesting things about their culture, and more often they teach you some very very interesting things about your own culture. So I have decided to start [...]
Culture Shock. n. a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment
Its been five months since I’ve left home; five long yet gone-by-quickly months. They say its right around the five or six month mark that culture shock really [...]
I had a dream a few days back in which I was back in the States and I was driving out of a parking lot with some friends. Once I pulled out onto the road, I suddenly did not know which lane to drive in. I yelled, “Which lane should I be in?” and started [...]
