Back in 2005 I wrote my first blog. It wasn't anything that I had
planned. It was just that I went on a trip to Thailand - a very lucky
opportunity in the early 2000s for someone Bulgarian - and found that
blogging is much more practical than writing e-mails to a dozen of
people.
A couple of months ago one of my closest non-Bulgarian friends invited me to his wedding. Of course I loved the idea. Not only do I love weddings and appreciate the opportunity to get to know my friend's family, this was also a once in a lifetime opportunity to visit Bangladesh and experience some of its traditions.
Once again being in a very busy period I didn't really prepare for this trip. I did the necessary to get visa and vaccination, but could have done much better in getting to know the culture of the place I am going to. All I know now is what I've seen from Bangladeshi in Tower Hamlets and having skim-read the Wikipedia page about the end of colonialism in Bengal. My friends' stories about his childhood were only enough to know that he hadn't had the life of a common Bangladeshi.
This time at least the idea of writing a blog was familiar to me. I decided to write it in English both to share the experience with my non-Bulgarian friends, but also to exercise my writing skills. I would like to ask all readers of this blog to excuse my English and share my complements to my research supervisors for all the effort they are going through to make my scientific writing cover some sort of minimal quality standard. Also here I will try to avoid publishing my friend's real name, although for anyone that knows me it would be easy to guess who it is.
PS: We had limited access to internet in Bangladesh. That's why I am posting my notes after the end of the actual trip.
A couple of months ago one of my closest non-Bulgarian friends invited me to his wedding. Of course I loved the idea. Not only do I love weddings and appreciate the opportunity to get to know my friend's family, this was also a once in a lifetime opportunity to visit Bangladesh and experience some of its traditions.
Once again being in a very busy period I didn't really prepare for this trip. I did the necessary to get visa and vaccination, but could have done much better in getting to know the culture of the place I am going to. All I know now is what I've seen from Bangladeshi in Tower Hamlets and having skim-read the Wikipedia page about the end of colonialism in Bengal. My friends' stories about his childhood were only enough to know that he hadn't had the life of a common Bangladeshi.
This time at least the idea of writing a blog was familiar to me. I decided to write it in English both to share the experience with my non-Bulgarian friends, but also to exercise my writing skills. I would like to ask all readers of this blog to excuse my English and share my complements to my research supervisors for all the effort they are going through to make my scientific writing cover some sort of minimal quality standard. Also here I will try to avoid publishing my friend's real name, although for anyone that knows me it would be easy to guess who it is.
PS: We had limited access to internet in Bangladesh. That's why I am posting my notes after the end of the actual trip.
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