Making Memories

Upon ending my first full week here in Dhaka last Saturday, I had the privilege of tag-team preaching with Sis. Frances Day at Impact Worship Center. It was such a great opportunity to share a bit of my testimony!

 Sunday morning I started taking Bangla classes to learn the native language. They are quite interesting for sure. I feel as if I am back in elementary school learning how to pronounce new sounds and words that made my head spin!


With the garment factory collapse last week coupled with the political unrest in the country, Hartals or strikes were prevalent in the country. On Friday afternoon I went with Shilo to the local market only to find that there was a Hartal or strike going on and I was right in the midst of it. The picture to the left was taken on a walkover over-looking protestors in Mirpur circle. They line up and wait for a bus or any automobile of the opposition party to come along and vandalize it. It's pretty scary stuff at times! Thankfully nothing serious happened at the time I was there.


So now it's time for a funny story. Since rolling blackouts are a common occurrence in Bangladesh, it was not surprising to me when I came home to my apartment Sunday afternoon to find that I had no electricity and no water either! Well, I had enough water to take a half shower... i.e. lather up.. and not enough water to rinse the soap off. I did have a water cooler (minus the cooling part) with some water in it which I used to rinse the soapy suds off my body. I didn't think twice after leaving the shower to turn the shower off, since there was no water coming out anyways! In my hurry to get to church on time, I threw on clothes and I was out the door. After church was over, I came back to the apartment to change and grab some clothes for the nights stay at the Millers (btw Thanks Sis. Miller for the chocolate chip pancakes).... Anyways.... As I entered the apartment and proceeded to take off my shoes, I stepped right into a puddle of water. Wet socks are in my opinion are one of the worst things. Add to that a flooded living room and you have a mini disaster. To my dismay I had realized what I had done. I forgot to turn off the shower before I left and the electric came back on, which in turn caused the pump to pump water to my shower (which was on) flooding my living room. So, for the next little while instead of eating and packing clothes I spent my time sopping up water from around my apartment. Luckily nothing was damaged and all is well. What an experience. You can bet your sweet bippy that I will double check the shower from now on!
Oh, and I don't have pictures of this, just so there is no solid evidence of this ever happening to ruin my reputation. lol