TEA STAND OPERATOR just down the street from our apartment.
Likely no more “daily” posts until we return from Nepal on June 1. See you then!
Category: Friends
POTENTIAL WALL ARRANGEMENT
I’m considering this or a similar arrangement for one of the walls of our apartment. Feel free to make comments including recommendations. If I knew how to use this program 🙂 I would have put spaces between each photo and had every other photo up or down. So it goes! Have a great day! I see that the program when posted put spaces between photos! Hurray! Of course then I had too many for one line!
EYES
These eyes belong to Halim’s nephew and nieces whom I met last week.
NEW FRIEND
I made friends with this niece of Halim during my visit to his apartment.
INTERRUPTED NAP
Halim’s Brother-in-law checks to see who is walking by his window. All of his relatives were very friendly. A few didn’t want their photos taken.
YOUNG GIRL
This young girl is a niece of the tea-stand operator I spent the afternoon with last Friday.
HALIM a 29 yr-old young man I play football with. He invited me to his teastand and house today. I had an enjoyable six hours with him. Here he is giving me a cup of tea.
ON THE PADMA
Last weekend we spent in Joypara. We took this boat across the Padma River in Southern Bangladesh to an Island. We played football, waded, and I took some photos of some birds. After several hours we took the boat to see the mansion of a former Minister of the previous government, and then headed back to the shore near a bus stand. This photo is of me with Kamal, our host and the boatman.
FRIENDS
Alice finds a friend on a path in Joypara! Maybe she is hunting for the right Bangla word?
AFTER DINNER
(L to R) Rehanna, Alice, Dolly (Rehanna’s dau.) and Dustin.
Rehanna and Dolly escorted us to the street to get transportation to travel to our section of the city. They were so glad that we had come to their home to enjoy a meal, meet the family, and visit. In this culture relationships are so much more valuable than things. We are more than glad to help donate clothes, etc. to help families of this housing area to try and get their lives back together after the tragic fire that destroyed many of their homes. It is blessing that no one lost their life in the fire. Ten were injured, including one fireman.
GRACIOUS HOSTESS
This nice lady, Rehanna, invited us to her home on February 6 to enjoy a great meal of curried chicken and rice, etc. This week the contents of her home were destroyed by fire. Her one-room house had a cement floor and brick walls so it will take less to rebuild than many of the homes.
ROZI – Alice’s Bangla language tutor. We are actually leaving with her for 5 day over the Easter Holiday to spend time in her village with her and her husband. She want’s Alice to teach her some American cooking in the morning while I go out and about with her husband. In the afternoon is rest time and then every evening we will visit in different homes. I am looking forward the the many Bengali curries that will likely await us. Several weeks ago they were without power and water for 30 hours. We’re fortunate it only goes off here for an hour every other hour during the hot days!
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