Over the weekend we took a quick trip to a rural area of Bangladesh and stayed on the compound of a Catholic Mission/boarding school. The boys loved the open spaces and played American football with an empty pop bottle. They loved the pond and spent a long time splashing during the hot afternoon!
We stayed in this mud walled house with a tin roof and blue wooden shutters. A few days before a snake was found and killed in a girls' dormitory nearby, a Banded Krait. I confess I looked under the beds and all around before settling in and tucked the mosquito nets tightly around us for the night. A storm blew in early in the morning and the boys were thrilled to lay in the dark and listen to the wind and the rain on the tin roof.
It was a short stay and after breakfast we took a van gari (a flat-bed rickshaw) for about a 45 minute ride to the main road to catch a bus back to Mymensingh. We drove past lots of pineapple fields and banana groves (above). Below is a closer view of the pineapples, which we are eagerly awaiting the ripening of!
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my mouth is watering at the thought of fresh from the field pineapples. lucky!
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