Sunday, May 18, 2025

Sun. May 18

 There is a “Meals to the Fields and more“ cookbook here at the Khulna house that I’m having so much fun with🤗

And the 6ft? round Kiddie pool here is put to use most everyday! Annslie wakes up begging to go ‘wimmin’ before breakfast even🏊‍♀️

Lonnie went out walking thru the village a couple times today. Met a professional driver. He invited him to his house so they walked a good little pc and stooped to enter his one room abode with a lean-to on one side.

I worked on finding places for more things/emptying totes, load of laundry, getting meals on the table, reading the cookbook when I got a chance/sitting outside while Annslie played..

Some observations from life back in Dhaka:

•these Bengalis like to dress up! Long sleeved button down shirts for the men are Very common, Everyday! Just as many or more than T-shirts or the long Muslim shirt. Dress pants of some sort are very common also. 

•But then, it’s not strange to see them wearing rubber slides with their nice clothes either😅 even the police men standing by the road directing traffic in their uniforms sometimes just wearing rubber slides! On the footwear tho, I’ve taken note that it’s about 50/50 those that wear shoes and those that wear some type of sandals/flip flops/slides/crocs. The school children, in their uniforms, mostly wear a white Velcro shoe😎

Guess we’ll see if that’s a lot different down here in Khulna.. but it was not strange for Lonnie and I to feel a bit casual in how we were dressed, with our short sleeves and flip flops. The ladies, as a majority, wear long sleeves also, and of course, skirts down to the ground or a loose cotton long pant. And so much of the time, head wear that comes down over their shoulders, and those that are completely covered except a strip for their eyes. And the mind boggling, is how they do this in the hot sticky climate with real feel temps often rising above 100*. Most, without an A.C. to cool down with, ever! 💭 And the things we Americans can complain about and simply refuse to do because of discomfort….

•The other day, in the UniMart parking garage, we saw a Tesla for the 1st time here✨ it was getting a bath 🧽🫧

• another impressive observation, is the respect for the white person.. every time we left or entered the Pink City gates, the guards saluted us

 taking a rickshaw down the highway… I observed a young man sitting on a bridge banister, as we passed, his face broke into this ear to ear grin😀… it looked like it made him HaPpY just to see that rickshaw full of white people!?!

 And always… young and old alike want to hold that white toddler or ask to have a picture with.






5 comments:

  1. I enjoy your blogs so much. How id love to travel the world and see all the different cultures:) wishing you sunshine and courage.🤍

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  2. Love keeping up with the bideshis😃

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  3. I agree, your blogs are very interesting! You are a gifted writer. Thank you for keeping us posted 🙂.

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