January 14, 2009...12:16 pm

Christmas in Chittagong

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* MERRY CHRISTMAS *

A very belated MERRY CHRISTMAS from Bangladesh! It was perhaps the most surreal christmas we’ve all ever experienced but all the same great fun!

A few of the team began the day with a Church service – the general belief here is that if you’re white and western then you must be Christian and if you don’t believe in God your basically Satan so they fussed over us about Christmas for ages until we gave in, mainly out of curiosity and went to a Catholic Mass, an early start that won’t be forgotten in a hurry.

Next came icecream sundaes and/or cakes in the WellFood (a Western food mall which is fastly becoming a regular hideout) and demanded they played christmas songs to get us in the festive mood which they politely obliged. From there we went onto Foy’s Lake amusement park…We spent the day chilling on a lake in a pedlo, enjoying all the hilarious, completely unsafe rides, walking in the hills or getting wet in the Water Park.

We had our Christmas dinner 250ft in the air in a revolving restaurant which also looked like a health hazard but served something other than curry so was a welcome relief for us all. We sat there in our chirstmas hats, played pass the parcel and swapped our usual xmas day stories…

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