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! Read More »»

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. Read More »»

We got an early start since we needed to shop for several household items in the next few days, and we wanted to make the most out of the daylight hours.Our first stop was DIT II (Gulshan II Market), where we bought a fan for our kitchen (we didn’t want our poor aya to melt), an AC adaptor for my Linksys wireless router (somehow I checked every AC adaptor for 220 compatibility except for the one our network/Internet access depends on), and a couple of clocks to place around the house so that we can keep some semblance of punctuality. It was good to get out of the DIT II dungeon…er…market, since it was blistering hot inside. Read More »»

An interesting fact about Bangladeshi apartments, even recently finished ones like ours, is that there is apparently no rhyme or reason to the way in which the electrical outlets have been placed around the flat. Read More »»