Crowds

I was digging around my photographs from Bangladesh and found this one that a good friend of mine took while a group of us were on a field visit during our first month with VSO. The image is stitched together and accurately show just how many people were around us while our bus back to Dhaka stopped for a quick break. We had walked just a few feet away to take some pictures of the nearby river. I was busy making adjustments to my camera when I turned around to see what must have been fifty or more people starring at us. Crowds like this are common thing no matter what the subject of focus is. Traveling just about anywhere in the developing world requires massive amounts of flexibility...and an equal amount of humor.

More Patuakhali Pictures

Patuakhali Field Visit

Our group of new volunteers spilt up this past weekend to go to two different field sites. Each group was hosted by current field volunteer. Four of us headed down south to the Khulna district town of Patuakhali. I would like to be able to describe every last detail- but am unable to for to capture the essence of the journey would take volumes. Some highlights though included tea with the captain of our ferry ride (the longest of three ferry rides to get to our site); a late night ride in tom-tom (hard to truly explain); and hordes of people everywhere we went. As some more time passes I will be able write in greater detail all the thoughts that are swimming around my head. For now enjoy a few pictures from the journey. Double click on any image to see a larger size.