Loving Bangaldesh

There's a blog under this one that was posted shortly before I wrote this blog. SO if you want to read them in order scroll down until you see the next one.

I'm overjoyed right now, because after the boat and bus ride I was walking to a cyber cafe and I was thinking "wow, I really hope the Canadiens won last night and overtime would be even better" It turned out they did and I really had no idea about it before I saw it on the internet.

I'm pretty certain this is my favorite country, next to Canada of course. It's so beautiful.

So my boat ride didn't turn out be 25 hours, it was only 15 hours. I ended taking to a different spot then I was planning, this is mainly because the guy at the ticket office thought it'd be a better idea. Which actually work out fine because I saved along time on the boat to end up in the same place. Currently I'm in the Khulna District of Bangladesh, the capital is Khulna and that where I am. Bangladesh has 7 divisions by the count I have and I was told by a man on the bus that they have 64 districts and the transportation system is not so good. I'm assuming he's never been to Nepal and taken a bus up and down those mountains. Bangladesh is completely flat except for the area that borders Burma, although the largest peak is like 1200 meters. In the lonely planet magazine I have it states that if the water in the Bay of Bengal were to rise by 1m the result would be a loss of land about 12 to 18% of the total land in Bangladesh. So after the boat ride I took a cycle rickshaw to the bus station and got a bus to Khulna for 60 taka, which is about 90 cents. The ride was about 2 hours long and actually not too bad. Although I was the most interesting thing on the bus, I also saw a goat on the roof of a bus that was passing in the other direction. That isn't uncommon and next time I hope to have my camera ready for it.

So here's what I'm missing about back home
1) hockey
2) chocolate milk and milk in general.
3) my family and my dog Sassy.
4) a super thick milkshake from Mcdonalds.
5) jackson square... NOT!

Seriously though I've been wanting a glass of chocolate milk for a while now but they don't have any brown cows over here. One drink that I'm started to become addicted to is mango juice and freshly squeezed orange juice. I've got 13 days to go and then I'll be back in Canada.

A thought about the Maoist in Nepal. They are a political group who is against the government because they don't feel they treat the people well, which they don't. I know this because of the people I talked to in Nepal none of them seemed to like the government. One reason is the lack of hydro, the water levels are very low this time of year and they had a dry winter season. Although because Nepal has so many rivers the government sells the electricity to India- this is what ticks them off. So they fight for the people, they aren't afraid to use deadly force though when facing off with the police and army of Nepal.