Day 7 - Ready for the village!

Busy day today! We even woke up early…
We started out with some two hours of work at the Bank where our dearest Shamim explained us everything, or almost, we needed to know about the upcoming trip to the village. In fact, tomorrow at 7 (and as you can well imagine is gonna be really tough for us from the very beginning!) we’re leaving for Rajshahi, a city in the Northwestern part of the country, almost on the border with India, and we’ll be staying there for two nights and three days. Originally it was four days and three nights but on our friends’ suggestion we decided that two nights would have been more than enough. So… we kinda got that whole thing planned and then at lunch time, left the Bank and headed for our travel agency in Gulshan II where the general manager was waiting for us to issue our tickets for… for… for… Nepal!! As you should no, everybody here is a general manager. Every single employee is the general manager of his activity. So in this country you don’t even have tailors or normal workers, you’ll instead find the general manager of the sewing machine etc. etc. etc.
Yeppe Ya Yeeeeah! We’re going to Nepal after our trip to the villages and precisely on Friday the 1st of February! Kathmandu, Patan, Everest!!! So excited bout it!







As general info for all our fans and beloved ones from all over the world: I’m not sure we will get phone coverage over there at the village so… don’t think we’re lost or in danger or that we don’t love you anymore, or that we decided to never come back to Italy and spend the rest of our lives in this beautiful country or anything like that. Start worrying only if you don’t hear anything from us before Thursday. Understand? Good, good, good!

Second stop of the day: the tailor!
After paying for our tickets we had lunch in the same shopping mall where the Agency is located, which is called Landmark, and then on the way out stopped in a tailor shop. Jacopo and I started looking at some fabrics they had there and asking for prices both of the fabrics and of what they call “making charge”. So after a tough hour of bargaining we eventually managed to have 9 tailor-made shirts for as low as 9 euros each. They’ll be ready on the 5th, the exact same day when we come back from Nepal, and we’ll tell you then if we’d made a good deal or not!

Done this, we took a Tuc-Tuc (the three-wheeler mini green taxi) and in about 1 hour and a half we got back to the hotel, risking our lives several times cos of the particularly crazy driving style of our Bangladeshi driver.



At the hotel we bought all the food and water necessary for these three days out of town.



Now it’s 10.40 and I think we should all go to bed soon since tomorrow morning we’ll all be challenged by our 6.00 wake up call!!!
Don’t miss us too much in these three days and… I’ll get back to you on Wednesday!
Ciao

Ps. After three days of pouring rain the sun decided to come back to Dhaka!! And… since I discovered myself to be a very weather-sensitive person I’m feeling a lot better and a lot happier! I almost like this place now!