31.07.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:21 pm by Sarah
Ever prepared yourself for an inevitable confrontation and have it never come?? That happened to me twice today and it totally threw me off. I mean, I don't LIKE confrontation, I don't WANT confrontation… but when it doesn't come when you expect it to… there's a kind of lull and you wonder what could have possibly happened to it…
Meh… anyway.
Is there a difference between being a blabber mouth and just having the 'need to express yourself verbally'?? I know if I don't talk about stuff I come close to exploding. Having a sounding board helps me think about things properly. It makes things seem so much more clearer in my head. The problem is that I can't verbalise everything and some things I shouldn't talk about at all. That frustrates me.
However there's not much I can do about it and I'm going to stop whining.
P.S. Don't ever drink champagne and sit in the sun for a few hours… it's not pretty.
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28.07.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:27 pm by Sarah
Gotta stop sitting in the sun during my lunchbreak… it makes me all sleepy and crazy-like..
THE GOOD
- I made a date to see my grandparents that I haven't seen in a like a year and a half – made me feel good to make the effort. I actually felt quite bad when I realised that I had completely missed the fact that my cousin had another baby… and that he was already a year old! Last time I knew, she was just pregnant…
- Going out for dinner on a week night 
THE BAD
- My room is a mess and I can't find anything. And – here's the good bit – it's not my fault!! Meanwhile I need to find an efficient way to store like a billion balloons. Coz, even though they're annoying, they are still kinda sweet and I want to keep them…
THE UGLY
- Can I put work in this catagory??.. no that'll just make me even more disillusioned. Well I guess even a 3 week break doesn't change anything. Therefore my idealistic blogging lasted one day…
- Being challenged and not being sure whether the challenges are justified or not. Should I be feeling guilty? Is it really possible to please everyone? Why can't I make up my own mind without asking everyone else's opinion first? Should I value other people's opinions as much as I am?
Yeah… Maybe there's more to that than meets the eye.
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27.07.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:28 pm by Sarah
Meh… have refrained from blogging for a few reasons.
1. There's too much I could say and not enough time to say it in. How can I squish 2.5 weeks in Bangladesh into one tiny blog? It just does not work!
2. I am being 'good'… blogging at work is probably not the most productive thing I could be doing. This is inspired by weirded-out and the fact that MSN messenger mysteriously disappeared from my computer while I was out of the country. I think They are trying to tell me something.
3. I'm lazy.
However, if you would like to ask me how Bangladesh was…. shoot me an email or something. Or even just check out Muse or Tu quoque… they have pictures and everything!!!
Meanwhile… back to reality.
I had a really good couple of days off when I got back. Busy.. but good. I think I would have gone slightly insane if I had gone back to work straight away….
I went to the SMBC open day on Saturday. It's looking really promising and is probably the best place for me to go. Feeling a little more confident about the academic side of things too.
A trip to Parkes has been scheduled (finally) in a week or so's time. Should be good for H to meet the fam. I'm really looking forward to it. Although a downside is that since I was there last they moved out of the house I grew up in. It's going to be weird to drive past it…. Another family live there now. They have like 10 kids or something. Anyway my Dad's turning 50 and my sister's turning a slightly less impressive 22 – so celebrations are in order…
Work is… work. Anyone know of any 6 month maternity-leave jobs?? I need a change…
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06.07.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:14 pm by Sarah
Don't tell anyone but I'm sneaking in a tiny little blog while no-one is looking!!!
Hey – I'm blogging from another country – how cool is that??
Anyway….. It's been crazy. According to my experience so far, Bangladesh is a very wet, green country filled with children who run up to you calling 'sister!' and tugging at my hand.
Well… that's in the children's home anyway. Even now the children are tring to convince me to go down and play basketball with them. Basketball and cricket and both big hits for the kids here….
The girls also are teaching me all sorts of hand clapping games that westerners have tought them over the years. They're also teaching me their dances… and laugh at me when I try and copy them!!
We're going to visit a village called Kaligram tomorrow for 3 nights. That will be alot harder and we will probably experience more of hard 'real' Bangladesh. The children's home is very welcoming and friendly and almost feels like home now. So leaving it will be hard.
By the way… you must go to Bangladesh just for the food…. oh my goodness!!! Yummy curries, dahl, and rice are served up to us in bowls piled high. And for dessert…. freah Mango (am) and jack fruit!! You can't get jack fruit in Aust.. it's tastes like something between a banana and a mango and it grows everywhere here. It's about the size of a football and has a hard shell you have to crack open and it comes apart into bite size pieces. We also had 'mishti' yesterday (Bangla for sweets!) So good!!!
Learning Bangla very quickly now I have to speak it constantly. My vocab is small but is slowly growing. My word for the day is 'goorum' which means 'hot'. Today is the first day since we've come here that we've seen blue sky for a reasonable amount of time. Well we can definately say that we have experienced monsoonal rain….
Anyway did I say this was going to be tiny?? Hi to everyone from the team. We are all well. Pray for us as we travel over the next few days.
Abar Deke Hobe!!!! (see you later)
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