Dhaka and Pizza hut

Two posts in one week, WOW!! I do it all for you!!


After many weeks,my language class finally made a trip into Dhaka,
the place where you can get anything or at least so they say... So we left
at 8 am and got into dhaka around 8:45 or so... Our language teacher wanted
to have all 5 of us over to her parents house, this included breakfeast and
lunch. more on that in a bit... So I was not allowed to leave the house
without taking breakfeast so I forced down two eggs and some bread, once we
show up at Jhumes house, we get fead again... This time we have toast,kola,
and 7 or 8 other things we sit around and talk for a while about nothing
then we head off to this shopping mail that only 1% of bangladesh can afford
to shop at... It was alright, one bonus was the fact that it had A/C but
other than that I really didn't see anything that was all that special...

We took two priviate cars to get there, her family has one and then her uncle
has one as well, they come competely with drivers as well, now I know what
your thinking, I'm riding around Dhaka in a new benz or something. NOT even
close!!! We were in a 1987 corolla.... complete with smached sides.... their
are traffic laws but nobody follows them it is so KRAZY!!! There are no
traffic lines on the roads, it's much like a video game in real life, what's
even better is the fact that the cars don't have any seatbelts and in our
car we didn't even know how fast we were going becuase the tack was broken....

Moving on to the highlight of the day, PIZZA HUT!!! we went their and I
never thought I would be so excited to eat there in my life, it was really
good just like the states, it was also the cleanest pizza hut I have ever
been in all my life, every pizza hut in the states should strive to be like
that one.... They had this bell that you rung if you had a good time, ring
away my friend ring away...

Next up I tried to track down some booze, I came within a glass window of
getting some, they have a store called duty free, you've most likely seen
them in airports... Well, they exist in Dhaka, I saw one and ran up to the
window, I could see in and I say booze, but it was closed because Friday in
the holiday in Bangladesh.... So back to my teachers house for yet more
food.... We were in Dhaka for 5 hours and had 3 meals.... What is even more
funny is this... Yesterday I was walking home and I ran into one of our
neighbors and he said, travis you look as if you've lost weight, are you
feeling ok?? you look very unhealthy you need to eat more!! I had no reply
for that one!!!

So after the soccer game everyone kept coming up to me and saying you play
so beautiful, one guy come up with the biggest smile, said how beautiful I
played and how happy I made him and then he said some other stuff that I
couldn't understand... I have fans in the desh!!! Last night was topped off
with a birthday party were I was in at least 35 photos and was feed birthday
cake by the birthday boy and I feed him cake as well, I'll be honest with
you, it kind of freaked me out!!!

Tonight and tomorrow will be wonderful, it's thursday and that means movie night at the hub, and Friday our day off!!! And I get to find out where I will be posted for the next two years!!!

Wish me luck,