Ganja!

Yes yes I know, we are not the best and most active bloggers in the world... What have we done the this time... Most of we spend in libraries reading about the floods and misery of this country. They don't have much luck here, but though they keep being friendly and seem happy. At least we have that impression... Sometimes in traffic you spot some glimps of how the nerves get also to Bangladeshi people. Very normal if you see how chaotic the traffic is. Still after this 3 weeks we've spend here it looks fabulous to see how all this vehicles manage to get their way through the traffic. We still have the feeling we are like big walking attractions. Sometimes you feel important, sometimes you just get tired of it! :) The one thing we know is that:

silence and staring
What country are you from?
Belgium!
again silence and staring

Our quest for plans looks like it will have a happy ending. With the some connections we made here and the big help from our professor who's adorable, we found some good maps. Of some parts... In the next couple of days maybe we'll have all the parts we need. During Ramadan everthing closes at 3pm and people go home and prepare for eid. This means they gather after one day of vasting and eat together. Bangladeshi food tastes very good, but still it's too spicy for us.
Because of this early closing time and most of the time we are just too hungry, we eat most of the time our lunch in the guesthouse.
After some trips with students to areas which were not all our study area and some car trips with the professor, yesterday we had our first really useful day of fieldwork. We met some local people who apparently were workig as a tourist guide who also took us to their houses. We weren't the first white people there, though I've never felt that popular before in my life!
One issue here is going to the barber, Phil is still trying to convince me to go and cut it really short, we'll see how this ends...