lazy friday

well today it was 42 C with 99% humidity. The best way to describe the Bangladeshi climate is there are two seasons in Bangladesh, dry underwear season and wet underwear season. we are now in the wet underwear season. This was a photo was taken 50 ft from our Mission in 2005 when I first arrived here in Bangladesh

The monsoon season is coming and the heat is creating a burden on an already crippled power grid. We have alternating power cuts every hours and sometimes we are with out 3 to 4 hours and sometime as long as 8 hrs. We have a generator which supplies partial power to our apartment.

Bangladesh is the size of new Brunswick but with the population of 150 million people and Dhaka has 15 million people with very little infrastructure (Roads, water, sewer etc,,) coupled by the mass migration of the rural population to the city which is constantly increasing This place will be in trouble when global warming starts sinking this country and it doesn't help that past and current governments have been so corrupt.

Mark