Project Rayenda begins!

We've rented a house, hired a cook (her name is Lovely!), scouted out work, and set up the house. Now all we have to do is begin.

Two contrary observations, unrelated to the project:
- did your mother ever chide you to eat your vegetables, saying that there were starving children somewhere in (insert country here)? If she used Bangladesh as an example, then she was probably right. The skinniest kids I have ever seen live here, and the old people, they're skinny too, they just look used to it. I feel really guilty about wasting any food here, so I try to round up every last grain of rice on my plate, curry hand be damned.
- while in Dhaka (last week), I read an article in an English-language Bangladeshi newspaper about how 68% of the population leads a sedentary lifestyle and consumes more calories than they spend. Um. Yesterday, watching the sliver of a man with wrists half as wide as mine pedal me to a kid's camp, I had to doubt the accuracy of the report.