Day Five: The Conversation (17 June)
on From Banglatown to Bangladesh (Bangladesh), 19/Jun/2010 11:23, 34 days ago
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With a colleague, at the end of the day. One of those conversations which are so common here. Where you start one place, end up somewhere else, and cover a multitude of topics in between. Today’s included holidays, cooking, local and national politics, illness, and – a staple of a majority of my conversations here – marriage. All in less than a hour.I really like how open my colleagues can be with me, and how a quick chat can so easily turn into an analysis of family, the office, Khagrachari and the world. I have heard stories of hopes, dreams, challenges, and a variety of less savoury topics, which I would really rather not know about. (I’m not sure they are suitable for as public a media as this one, but to give you an idea, it turns out mother-in-law jokes, or a rather twisted form, may be universal.)Anyway, back to the conversations. Like everything else in the Desh, I am just never entirely sure what’s going to happen, or what’s going to be said, next.
