In these past holidays
we headed down the river for a break of rest and relaxation in Chandpur. Even
though we were only back at school for 3 weeks we all felt like we needed a
holiday where there was nothing to do. So we camped out in the mission compound
for a week, slept, read books, played ridiculous games on my phone, watched
movies and tv series, played cards, swam in the puko (pond/lake) for hours at a
time and ate good food. It was wonderful!
I was reminded of the
totally ridiculous and awesome movie ‘the castle’ and bonnie dune (doon? I have
no idea what it actually is) the place of ‘serenity’. Even though their holiday
place wasn’t actually that nice it was their place of peace and they loved it.
Chandpur is like that for me, even though, by New Zealand standards it’s
actually probably not that great, it is a place that I can go to where it is
peaceful (by Bangladesh standards, no place in this country is ever truly
quiet!) and I can spend time with trees and flowers and have some time out. I
can even swim there, which really is a wonderful thing, even if there are
snakes in the pond, and some aggressive geese that need an attitude
readjustment and I probably don’t want to know what is in the mud at the bottom…
I love my job and
sometimes I even feel like I might love Dhaka (it’s a hard city to love but it
does kinda get under your skin) but it’s good to have a break sometimes, and
after the death of a very special woman in New Zealand to cancer, I needed peace
and flowers and green things. I feel quite blessed that I have a place where I
can go to get this…maybe I should come up with a song like the one sung on the
castle to sing on the boat down to Chandpur!
We’re going to bonnie
doon….do do do… J
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| A rainbow on the river |
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| The pond-swimming swimming swimming! |
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| The back of the house we stay at-I like the blue |
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| I like reflections |
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| Cute little Kabbo in a tree |
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| Just plain cute |
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| I like leaves |
