hard day's night(s)

sunday was a working day and it wasn't my ordinary sit-on-an-exercise-ball and type away working day - we planed and finished wood for 9 hours with a short lunch break in between. we did the same on monday, tuesday and wednesday( wednesday night here).

on my way to paanch raaste to buy water, a little girl came up to me and said "you and us - same, same". i think, by now, the entire village knows my name, age, marital status, occupation, siblings, siblings occupation, father's name, my state in india, where i live, where my siblings live- all of us are still asked the same questions everyday, multiple times a day.. and i have been here only 4 days, the others have been here for months!

i also have 2 thai fisherman's pants as work pants - so good to have tailors who sew this stuff in one day for 240 taka (less than $4. 1$=68.05 taka)

i might be staying a bit longer than i had originally planned (march 26th). the project was extended till april 19th due to a grant from savethechildren to build playgrounds in 5 schools in neighboring villages- an achievement for hodr. 12th of april is the community party, where the playgrounds, houses etc will be formally handed over to the community, which as per our "status board" is maximum fun and hence the plan for extended stay!

today is movie night and all of the 20 people in the house are on the terrace watching a bond movie or austin powers. and i sit here, uploading ONE picture every time i am online (because i refuse to scale down the size of pics!) . i am going to look into getting my own internet connection in the next few days..