A long weekend in Dhaka

So, it's a long weekend for us at the Asia Foundation. Because the Foundation is an American organization, we get a day off for independence day - too bad nobody else does. Anyways, it's been a good weekend. On Friday we packed up and moved to our new place. We are house sitting for the head of the Foundation here, while he and his family are on home leave in Canada. So we have a whole house to ourselves. It's pretty nice. Friday night we headed over to Andy's place to plan out the pub quiz that we are in charge of (we won the last one, so we have to set the next one). Andy had made chili, which was fantastic. It was a pretty fun evening with yummy food (including apple pie). Some Americans had fireworks a block away for July Fourth, so we got to watch those too. 

Yesterday I met Derrick and Sara and their daughter at the British High Commission for a morning swim. The BHC is so much better then the Canada Club (my on-going lament). Nice just to chill, but then it started to rain. I met up with John and Andy and we headed over to the Westin for a champagne lunch. Got in the car and their were two others, Jenny (who I've met) and an older man, Steve. Well, Steve and I had a nice chat and ended up sitting across from each other at lunch. So I chatted away with him over lunch. Finally, when everybody was getting ready to head out, Dawn says to me, do you know who he is...nope. He was the new British High Commissioner. Well I would have appreciated someone telling me that before. Anyways, he was really nice and it was nice to have him out with all of us younger folk. The rest of the afternoon was spent at Jenny's and then headed home to watch a movie. Todays plan is the Canadian Club for a run and a swim. 

Tomorrow I am heading up to Sylhet with the Leaders of Influence Programs. It is an Imam training session that I will be attending. Junyed (from the Foundation) was telling me this is probably the most conservative Imam training academy in the country, so it should be fairly interesting. I will try to get pictures...until next time.