A brief diversion …

So I’m straying from the promised book post for an entertaining tidbit from Bangla class today … we discovered today that to say “to fall down” in Bengali you say “eat a pickle.” As in, “It’s pretty icy out there, be careful you don’t eat a pickle!”
In reality, the two words aren’t exactly the [...]

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A change of pace…

After a long break, another review of books! I’ll start today and post the rest tomorrow. Again, almost all the books I read are non-fiction – but still interesting and even fun, I promise!
I don’t know if it makes any difference to read a book or listen to it on my iPod, but the [...]

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Warming up :)

It’s getting a tad warmer here in DC (a balmy 48 right now), which means it’s almost scooter weather again! I couldn’t be more thrilled, both because – I admit it – I loathe winter and because poor Scooter Jr. has been living here for the past six weeks:

That’s right, in the middle of [...]

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Getting rather concerned …

It’s been a rough news week for Bangladesh.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization said yesterday that the bird flu situation in Bangladesh continues to worsen and now poses a “threat to public health.” There have been no human infections yet in Bangladesh, but there have been flare-ups just about weekly since February 2007. [...]

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A strange new world …

In a rare burst of Bangla-learning motivation (or desperation – I actually seem to be regressing this week) last night I explored the world of online language exchanges. There are tons of pages out there, I discovered, the idea being that native speakers of different languages come together over the internet to chat and [...]

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The hard part about this job…

is that the great people you meet have to up and move to a different country just as soon as you really get to be friends. A couple of close friends from my entering class left today for Mexico and I’m pretty bummed – it won’t be the same without them here.
It also turns [...]

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Another sad one…

More bad news about the turtles today … apparently even the dogs in Bangladesh are out to get them.

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… and then a little not-so-good news

So just as I’m getting all psyched up about Bangladesh (I get my housing assignment soon! and I really was excited about the golf), three relatively obscure environmental problems are all over the news. I mean – I had adjusted to the idea that it rains for three months of the year and the [...]

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