Happy anniversary!

Exactly yesterday 1 year ago I landed in Dhaka in Bangladesh knowing that this will be my home for at least next six months. I was prepared to stay up to one year though. I mean, I didn't want to stay for less than a year, cos the year for me was symbolising the full circle.. Just to give you an example: if a trainee comes to Estonia for 6 months starting from September, s/he would leave in March, miss all the beauty of Estonian summer and have always impression that Estonia is a really freezing, dark country with no smiling people. A person coming for 6 months starting from May would definitely argue that Estonia is the most pleasant, beautiful and warm country with too bright nights and full of lots of joy. So I didn't want to get into such kind of misperceptions about Bangladesh myself.

Today I'm not overwhelmingly excited about my work as I was in the beginning, but I'm not extremely frustrated about the challenges of everyday life as I was some months ago. I feel comfortable more or less anywhere I go, but I have realised that everything is not always as it seems. I do notice the negative sides of the environment and society here, but I do discover myself finding so many things I really like and enjoy. And some things I accept as they are, cos this is the way how things are handled here.

Today i'm here with some work permit and visa challenges (which hopefully get solved within couple of days), with a contract up to August 2007, in the middle of my MBA studies and with a plan to relate myself with this country for the rest of my life. Mmm... I'd say quite a development has happened. I believe the future is bright.