Volleyball, Weddings, and Caterpillars

It’s been a while since I last blogged. I do confess that too many things happened on my last trip so I put off the story telling and now it’s been so long. So I’ll just share some of the highlights of the trip. First, the purpose of the trip was to go to a wedding and to hand out “pocket money” as they call it to the students sponsored by BanglaHope. We ended up at the Adventist College near Dhaka. And we traveled down south to one of the schools down there. Anyways, here are some snippets of the trip. 

• I got to play volleyball with a group of the guy teachers at the college. (I guess here in Bangladesh, girls don’t play volleyball.) Then I got to play a second time down in the South with another group of students and teachers. This time it was a lot more intense. They had speakers set up with an announcer and music playing in the background. It was so fun. 
• At the college, we were hanging out with some of Banni’s friends and I saw a guy, tall for Bangali’s, having his friend take a picture of him next to me while my back was turned. I turned around while the picture was being taken and they started laughing. I knew what they were doing and I laughed too. But one of the friends interpreted that he had placed a bet with his friends saying that he was taller. He had bet 100 taka! So I told him he could come stand side by side just so he could see. I was about an inch or two taller and everyone let out a burst of laughter. It was quite entertaining. I’m pretty sure he was shocked to see a girl that was taller than him. 
• Our bus tire exploded as we went over a bump. 
• Drank fresh coconut milk for the first time. And got to see them pick them as well. 
• Ate more delicious curry.

• Had a spider the size of my opened hand in our bathroom.
• Saw a frog smaller than a penny
• Rode on a Launch and a Ferry. Both were packed as full as they could get. 
• Helped to cut some vegetables with they’re knife.

• Went to a wedding where the marriage was arranged. But even more crazy was that he is from Korea and she was from Bangladesh. They don’t know each other’s language and both speak a very tiny tiny bit of English. They met 4 days before their wedding! They are brave! The wedding ceremony was a lot like American SDA weddings because they were SDA. Not much was different.

• Went to a Bangladesh amusement park and water park. So fun to see their reaction to the “roller coasters” and water slides. They had one room called “Ice Land”. It was so fun to see their faces as they walked on the floor that was all covered in ice. They had never seen it before. =) The rides would have been little kid rides in America but we were having such a blast! The Water park was different. We went in our clothes since they don’t wear bathing suits over here. It was so crowded and I didn’t really wanna think about how dirty the water was. Luckily we didn’t get any strange sickness or disease from that. The park was quite an experience to say the least. 

Those were the man things that went down during the trip. Now, These are the things I’ve been up to since then. 

• Teaching English, Math, Art, and PE
• Playing with the kids. Today I got on the Seesaw along with 12 other laughing kids! It was a good leg work out!
• Had a poisonous caterpillar crawl into bed with me and decide to sleep on my arm. (at least that’s what their guess was.)
• Made pumpkin bread.
• Learned how to make chapattis
• And lit my Christmas Tree Candle numerous times. =)

So that’s what I’ve been up to the last month. Sorry I had to write in bullets, but that’s what happens when I haven’t been keeping up with blogging. 


Time is going by so fast here. Today is the mark of 3 months here. I only have 3 left and I have a feeling they’ll be even faster then the past months. I’ll let ya know what happens next and hopefully I’ll be better about posting it. Happy Holidays to all! =)