Bangladesh 2011

It is impossible to travel somewhere new and leave behind all your preconceptions about the place. I would like to believe, though, that space can

We arrived in Chittagong last Sunday, and we have been chauffeured around like royalty ever since. Neither our hosts nor we have been eager to

I used to love chicken curry, and maybe I will again someday, but a steady diet of it for lunch and dinner has simply become

Looking at the map of the Indian subcontinent, it is not geographically obvious how the borders of India and what was then Pakistan (East and

Most of the bathing in the countryside is done in public, either in the rivers and lakes or beside a well with a hand pump.

I understood that Bangladesh was poor, but I wasn’t prepared for how much of the labor is manual and done with primitive handmade tools. We

We visited a village market where everything under the sun was being sold. Live ducks, chickens, fish of all kinds, and more were all for

It was voting day in one of the villages we visited. Political flyers were strung everywhere. The voting booth was merely a table set out

On our weekend with our guide, we visited a village school. I taught in a village school in Botswana while in the Peace Corps. School