Another interesting day of insights

Ok, so today's post stems from our evening out at the Canada Club last night. The club was hosting a Mexican Fiesta, complete with margaritas, so John and I decided we would be sure to find the elusive young people there. So we headed over, collected out margaritas and soon realised, we were wrong. The young people were not there. So we hung out with the older crowd. Actually, I shouldn't say that, there were a bunch of young people, like 12 or so. No, there was also some people our age-ish. Problem - they were US soldiers from PACOM, not my idea of fun. Anyways, here are my insights from hangout with the ex-pats last night. Being an expat in a poor country has it's high points. I mean really you can afford a life style here that you couldn't even imagine at home (see the fact that John and I - both students - belong to a 'club'). It has it's downsides though too, and the most prominent one last night was the total loss of fashion sense. There were socks pulled right up with shorts, there were way too high cut pants (on both men and women), there were fanny packs, there were weird hats, too many mom jeans to count and the kicker was the knee length sarong with cowboy boots. It was hot. So if you want to be an expat here in Bangladesh, you must lose all sense of fashion in order to fit in. 

So yes, that was last night. This morning, we got up and went to church (I know) with Sukla, one of the women that we work with. I was curious what a Christian church would be like here. Well, it was interesting to say the least, and way too hot. It was in this little community hall, not a real 'church' and there was a lot of singing, and such. I couldn't follow much, it was in English and Bengla and a little Benglish, but I got bored (and there was no gobble gobble to entertain me). The amazing thing is how young the congregation was. I mean like all under 35. Very different from back home. Anyways, now that I have doubled my church attendance for the year, I am going to go back to being a non-church goer. 

So that's it. Speak to you soon. 

PS I want to tell you why there are no pictures of all these goings on at the Canada Club. Cameras are not allowed. I have been trying to decide why this is. It probably has something to do with security, but I also have a theory that it is that they don't want pictures to get out so that they don't let the Canadian tax payer know that they are paying for things like this (although I actually have no idea who pays for it). Anyways, that is why there is a lack of pictures from my many many hours spent at the Canada Club.