Christmas day...
Christmas day was pretty fun - complete with illicit substances, a riot, paparazzi, and a visit from Bangladeshi Santa!
We started the day with a house champagne breakie for all the Dhanmondi -ites - except that Dhaka had run dry of champagne (i know it is a dry country, but there are usually ways...) so it turned into a white wine spritzer breakfast (you take what you can get here!)... It was a feast - illicit bacon and eggs (the eggs were legal, as far as I know), brioche, croissants - all the yummy christmas food you can imagine... AND there's a story to it!
On the day before Christmas eve, Brian (our car-owner-family-friend-friend, above) took Sarah and I on a mamoth illict-shopping trip to Gulshan, the home of all things dirty and Bideshi...starting with the duty paid shop and ending at the German butcher for some pork products! To our dismay, the duty paid shop was out of champagne, but we sent them on a mission to find us some kind of breakfast-suitable alcohol. Dissappointment struck again at the butcher, which was closed for the German owner's lunchtime nap, so we were forced to scour
the town for booze while waiting for the butcher to open again! Luckily, the story ends happily, with bacon and white-wine-spritzer/champagne on Christmas morning!
Meanwhile, on Christmas day, outside the Dhanmondi house... AL supporters were rioting! There was a day-long protest/celebration (hard to tell sometimes) up and down our street to the AL headquarters that was worryingly close to prohibiting us from leaving the house to
go across town to our afternoon engagement. Just as we thought it was safe to leave, the paparazzi jumped out to accost our car to try to get snaps of the Bideshis in the protest! As well behaved volunteers (who would get kicked out of the country if caught on camera in a protest), Shell, Sarah and I simultaneously covered our heads with our ornas to avoid the limelight... Didn't I tell you we were famous???
Christmas arvo we spent on the roof of some volunteer friends' house - bbq and lots of volunteer fun...
and we discovered that santa in Banlgadesh has a black beard... hmmm....he brought us lots of pressies! Plus, I made a new friend called Andrew bear...
We started the day with a house champagne breakie for all the Dhanmondi -ites - except that Dhaka had run dry of champagne (i know it is a dry country, but there are usually ways...) so it turned into a white wine spritzer breakfast (you take what you can get here!)... It was a feast - illicit bacon and eggs (the eggs were legal, as far as I know), brioche, croissants - all the yummy christmas food you can imagine... AND there's a story to it!On the day before Christmas eve, Brian (our car-owner-family-friend-friend, above) took Sarah and I on a mamoth illict-shopping trip to Gulshan, the home of all things dirty and Bideshi...starting with the duty paid shop and ending at the German butcher for some pork products! To our dismay, the duty paid shop was out of champagne, but we sent them on a mission to find us some kind of breakfast-suitable alcohol. Dissappointment struck again at the butcher, which was closed for the German owner's lunchtime nap, so we were forced to scour
the town for booze while waiting for the butcher to open again! Luckily, the story ends happily, with bacon and white-wine-spritzer/champagne on Christmas morning!Meanwhile, on Christmas day, outside the Dhanmondi house... AL supporters were rioting! There was a day-long protest/celebration (hard to tell sometimes) up and down our street to the AL headquarters that was worryingly close to prohibiting us from leaving the house to
go across town to our afternoon engagement. Just as we thought it was safe to leave, the paparazzi jumped out to accost our car to try to get snaps of the Bideshis in the protest! As well behaved volunteers (who would get kicked out of the country if caught on camera in a protest), Shell, Sarah and I simultaneously covered our heads with our ornas to avoid the limelight... Didn't I tell you we were famous???
Christmas arvo we spent on the roof of some volunteer friends' house - bbq and lots of volunteer fun...
and we discovered that santa in Banlgadesh has a black beard... hmmm....he brought us lots of pressies! Plus, I made a new friend called Andrew bear...
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