We came back on saturday afternoon from our remote and quiet little get-away in Cox's Bazaar to the traffic jams, car horns and endless stream of people in Dhaka. Phew!
Yesterday I had another heart wrenching interview and got an abrupt wake up to reality and the actual reason I am here. I feel grateful for the opportunity of getting a break and process everything from my first five interviews and now feel a little bit better equipped to truly listen to the stories of the next five women.
On sunday Andreas was eager to do some shopping before going back to Sweden again on tuesday and so we decided to walk up Gulshan Avenue to see if we could find any good stores. We found one. All the other shops in Gulshan are closed on sundays. Lucky the only open one was a really nice one!
In the evening Hasan came to pick me, Andreas and Fina up and drove us to his house in Mirpur and a true bangladeshi feast! His mother had made a whole buffet of delicious bangladeshi food and we ate until our bellies were about to burst! ;) It was so nice to get to meet his family.
After dinner we had a yummy desert and a chat and Hasans cousin gave us beautiful Mehndi designs on our hands.
I had work between 9-15 yesterday and when I finished Andreas came to the office so that I could introduce my lovely co-workers to him! We couldn't stay long enough so that he could meet all of them unfortunately because of all the errands we had to go through before Andreas is leaving for the airport tomorrow morning at 5am. We (He!! ;) ) managed to squeeze in a bit of a shopping spree and I was very impressed with his NewMarket- bargaining-skills! It was like he'd done it his whole life! We ended the day with a really nice thai-dinner.
Right now Andreas is up in the air on his way to Istanbul and then Sweden. Two weeks has gone WAY to fast. <3
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| On a colorful rickshaw in bangladeshi november rain. |
Yesterday I had another heart wrenching interview and got an abrupt wake up to reality and the actual reason I am here. I feel grateful for the opportunity of getting a break and process everything from my first five interviews and now feel a little bit better equipped to truly listen to the stories of the next five women.
On sunday Andreas was eager to do some shopping before going back to Sweden again on tuesday and so we decided to walk up Gulshan Avenue to see if we could find any good stores. We found one. All the other shops in Gulshan are closed on sundays. Lucky the only open one was a really nice one!
In the evening Hasan came to pick me, Andreas and Fina up and drove us to his house in Mirpur and a true bangladeshi feast! His mother had made a whole buffet of delicious bangladeshi food and we ate until our bellies were about to burst! ;) It was so nice to get to meet his family.
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| Hasan with parts of his family; Hasan 3, Farial, Hasans Mother, Hasan 1! :) |
After dinner we had a yummy desert and a chat and Hasans cousin gave us beautiful Mehndi designs on our hands.
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| Mehndi! |
I had work between 9-15 yesterday and when I finished Andreas came to the office so that I could introduce my lovely co-workers to him! We couldn't stay long enough so that he could meet all of them unfortunately because of all the errands we had to go through before Andreas is leaving for the airport tomorrow morning at 5am. We (He!! ;) ) managed to squeeze in a bit of a shopping spree and I was very impressed with his NewMarket- bargaining-skills! It was like he'd done it his whole life! We ended the day with a really nice thai-dinner.
Right now Andreas is up in the air on his way to Istanbul and then Sweden. Two weeks has gone WAY to fast. <3
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