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Day 82

WE TOOK A TRIP TO THE INDIA BORDER at Akhaura/Agortala because we have a 90 day multiple-entry visa for Bangladesh.  We were short on time so we left at 5:40 am and were home by 6:30 pm.  I’m sure it took some longer since there was a long walk between the different check posts, and I was on crutches.

Day 81

MANG GUITE’S ARTISTIC DESCRIPTION OF MY ACCIDENT and how I look now with crutches.

Day 80`

HI EVERYONE! I GUESS GOD THOUGHT I NEEDED A BREAK! LOL No pun intended! I actually broke my ankle  in two places while playing football. But I did keep the fellow from scoring. 🙂 I came home and had some pain walking but kind of tried to ignore it. I talked to Austin in Ohio, because I saw on facebook that Pruitt had broken the forearm bones just behind his wrist. I went to the market with a rickshaw but never got off. Later I went to a grocery store and did some walking and up some steps. Back up the street 50 yards to get a rickshaw. I then in the afternoon went with Alice to our friends apartment to help Charles Fox put four windows back in place, as well as put 4 glass sliding doors back in place. I had to go up 4 flights of stairs to get to the apartment, while carrying a cordless drill in it’s case with another battery pac!  Charles on the way home said he thinks he will take me to the ER to get my foot checked out. Here I find out my ankle was broken. Within 1.5 hours I was out of the hospital with my leg in a cast, crutches, and on the way home in a CNG. So six weeks with crutches and no football!:-( Here I am on the couch with my feet elevated. Charles and family brought me my meds, candy, balloons, flowers and some good cheer!

Day 79

MYMENSINGH TRAIN STATION sign in Mymensingh, Bangladesh.  I had to put some Bangla script on my site today, since today I’m doing a Bangla dictation assessment.  Passing grade is 70%.  They will read approximately 100 words to me in Bangla and I need to write the words of the story down.  Points are taken off for spelling errors and for listening errors!  I’ll do my best and hopefully that will be good enough.

NIC, KIRSTI, AND SETH posing in front of some art which was painted on a wall in front of a wall in Iqbal Rd, Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Day 77

GUARD MYMENSINGH, BANGLADESH  GUARDING BUILDING SITE materials with advertisement behind him.

71 TTL PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO HAVE PHOTOS IN THE “BANGLADESH IN FRAMES III” photo exhibition at Drik Gallery in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh.  This was the photo we had taken last evening at the Budhdhijibi Smriti Shoudho (Intellectual Martyr’s Monument in Dhanmondi). I am the “pale face” near the right edge of the group!  The exhibition will be from March 25-29.

THE TRAIN IS HEADING OUT OF THE Mymensingh, Bangladesh Train Station.

Day 74

BENGALI GENTLEMAN ON THE TRAIN at Kamalapur Train Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Day 73

TRUCKLOAD OF CABBAGE ON THE WAY TO a vegetable vendor.

GREEN TOMATOES AT THE wholesale market in Mymensingh, Bangladesh.  These are used quite a bit by Bengalis in cooking.  We typically use the ripe red tomatoes for eating raw, making fresh salsa, or pizza sauce.

Day 71

TRAIN ENGINEER’S ASSISTANT peering down on the tracks as they are leaving Mymensingh, Bangladesh station.