I have had no feeling to write anything over the past some time, as you may have noticed. The reason is partly that I don’t want to write about bad things and partly that I don’t know what to write. I guess things around me are not exciting any more, I'm in my daily routine. But then I came across the idea, that my current daily routines quite different from the ones in Estonia, so why not share....
-> wake up at 7 - 7.30 feeling extreme hot though the fan has been on all night
-> shower, breakfast (bread + chocolate and cup of tea), get out from home at 8
-> greet the guards downstairs who smilingly open the gate when I leave the house
-> say no at least to 3 or 4 rikshaw drivers who want to give me a ride
-> look for CNG, find one and start towards office
-> reach in front of the office at around 9, say "Subhu shokal!" (good morning) to a tea-man downstairs and buy two bananas from him for 6 Taka (1,2 EEK) in case I missed my breakfast at home. He normally starts cutting bananas from the bunch even before I open my mouth. He knows that if I already come to him, I want to buy. In case I don't have small money, he willingly gives me credit. And once my CNG-driver didn’t have change for my 100, so tea-man paid for me and I gave it back to him later that day.
-> arrive to office, say good morning to everybody and get very few answers. (People here do not have a habit to do that not because they are impolite, but they just don't. Sometimes some of my colleagues who didn't reply to my greeting come to me 5 minutes later to say "Good Morning!", which often is followed by compliments if I'm wearing local clothes)
-> take out my big scarf from the drawer and cover myself, cos the air conditioning is freezing like fridge. And it's not possible to make it less, doesn't matter whether the temperature measure is 23, 25 or 28 degrees, it is still same freezing
-> check mail (if I happen to have internet :) and start working
-> drink tea with milk and sugar served by our office assistants to everyone before 10
-> work or suffer from power-cut. Power-cut can last from 5 minutes two several hours. Normally people do nothing but chatting or reading newspapers, cos computers are off, light is very bad and internal phone network is not working. I'm lucky if I have work that I can do without computer, otherwise I just chill.
-> order lunch from office assistants or go out for lunch with a colleague
-> work or suffer from power-cut.
-> take tea again at 4 pm
-> leave office at 5 or later
-> on normal day, walk to bus station and take bus towards home
-> on exam day, look for CNG, negotiate about the price and take the ride to university
-> say no several times to beggars and street-businessmen wanting to sell me water, magazines, popcorn, towels, books, fruits, candies (which they call chocolate), tools, household stuff etc etc
-> have exam or attend the lecture from 6-9 in North South University
-> if don’t have school, go shopping or out for dinner or cafe or apartment hunting or meeting friends or spend time with my sweetheart or go home
-> if going home, then cook or look after the maid when she’s cleaning the apartment and washing clothes or do household activities or chat with my apartment mates or study or do whatever else
-> often suffer from power-cut, while the apartment gets extreme hot, cos no fan is working
-> finally go to sleep :)
