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A look back

Posted in Bangladesh, Holidays, Ohio, People, Travels, Washington on December 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Some favorite moments from 2008.

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Gettin Ready …

Posted in Bangladesh, Scooter, Washington on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

With less than two weeks until the movers come, I sold my scooter today :( Poor scooter. I hope they take care of you.
In other news, today I also ordered a ham for next Christmas. That’s right – holiday hams must be ordered in May. They’re shipped in from the [...]

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Quite a spread

Posted in Washington, Work on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I snapped this picture at a “Language Learner’s Luncheon” at work today – the South Asia language section is proud to take any opportunity to celebrate with food. Today’s occasion? None really; it’s too long between holidays in South Asia, so they’ve created their own. The food is always delicious; our teachers [...]

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A glimpse of things to come …

Posted in Washington, Work on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today we visited the Sri Siva Vishnu Temple in Maryland to get a preview of Hindu culture and religion. Bangladesh is about 15% Hindu, so we should see some temples in Bangladesh as well as lots, of course, on our (hopefully) frequent visits to India! Also, Bangladesh was primarily Hindu prior to the [...]

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Warming up :)

Posted in Scooter, Washington on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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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A strange new world …

Posted in Bangla, Washington on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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…

Posted in Washington, Work, tagged on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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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To give you some idea …

Posted in Bangla, Washington on January 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

about the painful and terribly slow process of language-learning:
For the past couple months I’ve made an effort to listen to the daily Bengali news broadcast from the BBC. I don’t catch most of it, but as my vocabulary is growing I pick up more and more of the general gist of what they’re talking [...]

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