Wow! It will soon be two weeks since we got here, and what an amazing time it has been. Words can not express, and I don't think that the pictures that we are taking is really doing 100% justice to what we are experiencing. I am finding that I literally have to stop and say, "guys, we are in Bangladesh", fearing that before you know it the time would go by and we would be back in Canada and we would not have paused for a moment just to savour......
The sights,the sounds,the foods,the people,the traffic,the stares,the heat,the crowds,the meetings with project managers and people from the villages and all the young children who are so happy to see us and meet us, has been wonderful and at the same time very overwhelming.
In the past few days we have met many courageous women. They are poor but very hard working and willing to make changes in their families lives. We met women who take full advantage of the family planning clinic and young girls willing to share their stories of abuse.We have visited temples and mosques, been greeted with flowers and had our feet washed, and we have even seen the largest mango tree in all of Bangladesh.The people of this country have open their homes to us and have been very hospitable, and all they have asked in return were questions about Canada.Regardless of their story, the people of Bangladesh always seem to have a big smile on their face.