Girls' Day Off In The City!!!!

This past Friday was our day off, so our roommates Joy (from Holland) and Najma (from Germany) took us into Dhaka.

It was a fabulous day.  We shopped (I bought a new shalwar kameez to wear, a shawl, various bags and pillow covers), ate KFC (can you believe it?) for lunch, brownies & milkshakes for dessert and we went to the Western grocery store to buy some supplies for home.  I bought pasta & sauce, yogurt, hand soap, chips, apples and more!!

I still can't get my bearings in Dhaka and I can't remember the directions to any of the places that we went (I can barely make it around Savar, which is smaller!!) but I bought a map for the next time Katia & I go back if we don't have our lovely tour guides with us.

All in all a great day off!!!  Instead of catching the bus home (which costs about 50 cents for an hour ride) we took a cab (which costs 400 taka or  $5.75 for an hour ride - although even this was overcharging because he left the meter on and it came to 300 taka or $4.25.  You may ask yourself - why does it matter?  It only $1.25! But you quickly learn when you're traveling that it's the PRINCIPLE of the thing. :)   Joy, our seasoned barterer, tried talking him down, but to no avail.)

                On the bus to the Golshan area of Dhaka: left to right = half of Joy, Najma, me, Katia

                                                                Shopping for bangles!!!!!!!