Our schedule for the day included a tour of the GIS “First School”, along with a shopping circuit of DIT I & II and certain other Dhaka hotspots for expatriate purchases. After helping Ben and Gemma (our neighbors who live in the other apartment on our floor) to some breakfast, since they seemed to have gotten locked out of their kitchen (it can happen!), we met Debra and some of the other teachers downstairs and hopped onto one of several waiting rickshas. After a stop on road 8 of Baridhara DOHS (the neighborhood where we live) to pick up some more teachers (and rickshas), we were off. Read More »»
The day began full of promise: our cable Internet access was going to be hooked up in the afternoon! This would bode well for us, since I can’t do any work without it, and Taara was nearly going batty without access to her e-mail. As we ran our other errands, I was eagerly anticipating the moment when my umbilical cord would be once again hooked into the Interweb. But that certainly didn’t stop us from having lots of fun in the meantime! 
I still think living in the Amazon was hotter, but there’s no question that this country is hot in the summer. My body is still acclimating, which means I’d need several buckets to collect the sweat I generate by walking outside. Thankfully no such collection mechanism is necessary, and I can just let it evaporate, thereby further increasing the humidity in the air and consequently, producing more heat (*sigh*). It’s quite a difference to the dry, mild Canadian summer we left, which more closely resembled the Autumn of São Paulo, but I don’t think either of us will have trouble adjusting to the weather within a few weeks. For now though, it’s AC and fans on all the time, baby.