Gone again

this time to the following countries in this order:
Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, USA, Canada, Russia, Mongolia and China.
Check it out here: nikivz.blogspot.com

Take care

I'm leaving

hey,

so this is my last post out of Bangladesh. Today I did a really nice trip through the old part of Dhaka. Because it is a national holiday there was no bad trffic at all but on the other hands many stores were closed, so I didnt see everything. I bought some books and DVDs which are just really cheap over here. I spend all my money so I hope I wont face any unexpected costs tomorrow. Im looking forward to come home. But on the other side, I had a really great time and I dont really know if I want to have the daily life back. But I dont have a choice. The taxi picks me up at 6 am, the flight goes at 8.30, I will have a stop over at Doha, Qatar and then be in Frankfurt around 6.30 pm (German time).

C U

PS:this is not the very last post

Dhaka, one last time

hye,

I'm back in Dhaka. The trip was very interesting, although I did not see much new things, but it was nice to have more time to talk to the people at the village. I went with a guy from Austria, and it was nice to talk German for him without anybody understanding us, for example about the food we didnt like but had to pretend it was good because we were invited. We have a better impression of Grameen and the system now, and although you cannot get a really honest picture how the people of the village thing about Grameen it is impressive to hear all the development they did during the last years. I will write my whole impression of Grameen as soon as I'm back in Germany.
Now I have 2 days left. Tomorrow I will spend the whole day at the bank to hope to see Prof. Yunus. The day after tomorrow I will go to Old-Dhaka and do sight-seeing for the last time. And on Friday I already fly back.

See you then, or not.

last week

so I'll leave today at 4 to a 3 days field trip outside of Dhaka. I'm exited to have that experience and I'm happy it worked out because of the curfew and the fact that things got a little bit stressed because I leave soon and still have many things to do.
I'll be back on Tuesday late afternoon.

Back to normal

I just wanted to say that everything seems to be back to normal. After a huge monsoon rain this morning, the streets are crowded again and the silence is gone. I´m looking forward to have a change from writting my paper all the time and do this trip to the village on sunday. my last week has began!

Staying at the hotel

The situation has not got better. The curfew is still up and they shut down the mobile connections and even the internet (its just one for these 2 hours) to stop the students from organising themselfes.
Hope things will get better on sunday because Im planning on doing a field trip.
I'm fine!

Curfew and flying stones

so the situation in Dhaka is not that easy at the moment. On Monday there started a fight between the students of Dhaka University and the Police during a soccer match. Then yesterday the situation got worse and all the students of different universities in Dhaka join to fight protest against the police which got supported by the military. They shoot with rubber ammunition and throw big stones at each other. 2 hours ago there was a fight in front of our hotel so that me and some other intern had to stay at the bank for a while.





Now the situation (at least here in front of the hotel) is a little bit relaxed. We could go back to the hotel and now they have a curfew in Dhaka, which means we are not allowed to leave the hotel. Everybody is watching live TV to see how the situation develops. Hopefully we can go out tonight, because I'm invited to dinner and lets say I just made some bad experiences with the hotel. OK, so I am fine and I'm sure I will survive the almost last week! For more information check out google news.
Maybe I'll go to the pool later which is on the roof, so don't worry!