Yesterday I finally began the epic bangladesh summary. After an hour of writing, the computer shut off and I lost it all. Ah yes, the joys of the developing world. Maybe it was supposed to be a reminder that I should use gmail and not yahoo mail. I'm not feeling that inspired to write it all out again, but I have some time to kill in the next couple days so maybe I'll get around to it.
But enough about that... I had dinner with two americans last night, a couple from Brooklyn. The man mentioned how other travelers love to rant about Bush and the US gov't as soon as he tells them he's from the States. He then said how he didn't think highly of Bush but he didn't consider him a bad man. That got the ball rolling.. Iraq came up and we had somewhat of a heated discussion about it. I personally thought he was too forgiving of Bush. He kept on saying, "we all make mistakes." Umm yes, but how many of us CONTINUE to make those same mistakes? No one successful I'd wager.
Anyway, after dinner, we got beer, my first alcohol since May 12th. Kingfisher beer, don't really recommend it, but it was $1.25 for a big bottle (650 ml) so I really can't complain can I?
Highlight of yesterday: chilling with 3 guys in the middle of Elliot Park. I was walking through it to go see Victoria Memorial and they waved me over. I figured why not, and ended up hanging out with them for about an hour. Memories of Bangladesh came back, although they weren't Muslims. They also bought me tea, so my streak of free tea continued. I thought it was going to end yesterday, but they kept it alive. That being said, I'm pretty sure today it will come to an end. Oh well...
And today I am walking around in shorts. I feel naked in doing so. I wore pants the whole time I was in Bangladesh (minus a day at Cox's Bazaar) and it feels weird wandering around in shorts. My reasoning is I'm sick of wearing the same pants day-in,day-out and I already stand out enough, what are shorts going to do? Oh, and most other travelers wear shorts too, so crap, I might as well "fit in" with one group around here right?
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